Almudena Toral

Visual journalist

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Location: Miami, FL

Nationality: Spanish

Biography: Almudena Toral is a Spanish visual journalist and filmmaker currently based in Miami. She heads the feature visuals team at Univision News Digital â€“ the team covers the U.S. and Latin America through documentaries, photo essays, visuals for... MORE

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Potato Slaves

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Updated Sep 2020

Potato Slaves is a bilingual, multimedia investigative story on labor trafficking published on Univision News Digital in August 2020, supported by the IWMF and the Carter Center. Workers at a potato processing plant in Texas face abuse by their employers but choose to stay silent out of fear of losing their H-2A visas. Most are unaware they’re even victims of forced labor, or that the fees they’re required to pay to their supervisors for a visa are illegal. They don’t trust the authorities either, and fear retaliation for speaking out. It’s a reality faced by some 36,000 people a year in this border state.

Almudena Toral

Jun 12, 2018

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