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BlueMTexpat

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1. This is such a horrifying story

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2021, 03:58 AM

Feb 2021

and illustrates the actions desperate people must take. I cry for all of humanity.

I know Melilla well. It is the Spanish enclave in North Africa closest to my Peace Corps posting in the 60s in northeastern Morocco. It is also where I took my first steps on Spanish territory on 1965.

If anyone has seen the Netflix series "La Reina del Sur," part of the first season is set in Melilla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reina_del_Sur_(TV_series)

There is an English remake "Queen of the South," which is also good, IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_South_(TV_series)

But I personally find "La Reina del Sur" to be more cosmopolitan.

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Europe-bound migrants found amid broken glass, toxic ash [View all] Omaha Steve Feb 2021 OP

This is such a horrifying story BlueMTexpat Feb 2021 #1

move on sheilahi Feb 2021 #2

Wait. Were the migrants rescued, or found? intheflow Feb 2021 #3