Eclipse highlights slavery in Melilla

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased

At the price of chains and slavery?

- Patrick Henry

They are known as the mule women of Melilla. Every day they carry heavy loads across the border between the Spanish enclave and Morocco. Melilla is an important entry point for goods in to North Africa - and if the women can carry them, they can be imported in to Morocco duty-free.

"These are women who are risking their lives - there have been deaths as a consequence of this physical labour. It's carried out in conditions of semi-slavery," says Emilio Guerra, from the Union Progreso y Democracia political party. "What we would like is that they work under a concrete set of rules in conditions that aren't precarious”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863

In a previous post [1] we saw how the lunar eclipse of 19 Oct highlights slavery and human rights issues. The eclipse chart drawn for Melilla is similar to that at London [1] in that  Full Moon is on the meridian axis so that the interpretation is the same.

[1] Eclipse highlights slavery and human rights issues