Viesca is a town and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name

Viesca (municipality)

Viesca is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Viesca. The municipality covers an area of 4203.5 km²., the municipality had a total population of 19,328....

, located in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila

Coahuila

Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico...

. At the last census, Viesca had a population of 19,328. Of this number 9,695 were men and 9,633 were women.

Economy

Viesca's primary economic activity was formerly a salt factory which provided most of the jobs in town. The factory was shut down in 1992. Today, the main workplaces are the sweatshop

Sweatshop

Sweatshop is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labour laws may be violated. Sweatshops may have...

and auto parts assembly factories that still operate giving jobs for most of the economic activity.