BOGOTÁ — They were two teenagers — once in love, now just friends — working the overnight shift at a McDonald’s in Lima, Peru, when they were electrocuted by a loose cable over the weekend. The deaths of Alexandra Porras Inga and Gabriel Campos Zapata inside a popular McDonald’s have shaken Peru, a nation already mired in a debate about how to tackle precarious labor conditions, particularly at the large companies that have aided Peru’s supercharged growth. And they come as McDonald’s faces increased scrutiny over treatment of workers around the world. In an interview on Monday, the mother of Ms. Porras Inga, Johana Inga Argote, 38, said that she last saw her daughter on Friday, after mass. On Sunday morning, Ms. Inga Argote received a call from a McDonald’s employee.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 19:51 UTC