BBC News - The heavy-lifting ’mule women’ of Melilla
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863
Tiens, au #Maroc ils ont des #femmes_mules ou #femmes_bourriques. Beaucoup sont des #femmes divorcées (certaines parce que battues) qui s’épuisent à cet #esclavage pour nourrir leurs enfants.
Le problème de la retraite ne se posera certainement pas pour elles, elles seront mortes avant. #monde_infâme
Massive bales are everywhere, all wrapped in cardboard, cloth and sacking and fastened with tape and rope. And under the immense bales, obscured and bent double by the size of their loads, are Moroccan women. They are the mule women of Melilla, known locally as porteadoras.
This commerce takes place daily at Barrio Chino - a border crossing from Melilla to Morocco for pedestrians only. As long as a porteadora can physically carry her load, it is classed as personal luggage, so Morocco lets it in duty-free. The women have the right to visit Melilla because they live in the Moroccan province of Nador. But they are not allowed to reside in the Spanish territory.
