scholarly journals Cuando las personas se vuelven “mercancías”: Respuestas jurídicas para luchar a favor de las víctimas y contra las mafias que trafican en el Mediterráneo (When people become “merchandise”: Legal responses to fight in favor of the victims and against the mafias that traffic in the Mediterranean Sea)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 834-849
Author(s):  
Claudia Jiménez Cortés

Son miles las personas que se juegan la vida por cruzar el Mediterráneo hacia un futuro incierto pero prometedor. En el trayecto –que dura años– pasan a estar a merced de los grupos organizados para quienes son mera “mercancía” de la cual pueden obtener un beneficio… o dos: el que paga la persona o sus familiares por llegar al viejo continente y su explotación por el camino. Esta cosificación hace que la delgada línea que separa el tráfico del delito de trata de seres humanos se difumine cuando no desaparezca. Ante esta realidad, el artículo propone un cambio de enfoque respecto al hasta ahora seguido por las autoridades. Con ello, quizá se consiga luchar de manera más eficiente contra esta lacra y en todo caso, al menos se aseguraría un trato más digno y humano a personas que han sufrido en sus carnes el escarnio de no ser consideradas ni tratadas como lo que son, seres humanos. Thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards an uncertain but promising future. In their journey, they are at the mercy of the organized groups who consider them no more than merchandise from which they can obtain a benefit... or two: one from the person or their relatives for reaching the old continent and one from their exploitation. This “use” of them makes the thin line that separates smuggling from the crime of trafficking in human beings blur if not disappear. Given this reality, the article proposes to focus the persecution on the mafias that have made a profit with their exploitation. With this, perhaps it is possible to fight in a more efficient way and in any case, at least a more dignified and humane treatment would be ensured to people who have suffered the scorn of not being considered or treated as what they are, human beings.

Author(s):  
David Abulafia

Carved out millions of years before mankind reached its coasts, the Mediterranean Sea became a ‘sea between the lands’ linking opposite shores once human beings traversed its surface in search of habitation, food or other vital resources. Early types of humans inhabited the lands bordering the Mediterranean 435,000 years before the present, to judge from evidence for a hunters’ camp set up near modern Rome; others built a simple hut out of branches at Terra Amata near Nice, and created a hearth in the middle of their dwelling – their diet included rhinoceros and elephant meat as well as deer, rabbits and wild pigs. When early man first ventured out across the sea’s waters is uncertain. In 2010, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announced the discovery in Crete of quartz hand-axes dated to before 130,000 BC, indicating that early types of humans found some means to cross the sea, though these people may have been swept there unintentionally on storm debris. Discoveries in caves on Gibraltar prove that 24,000 years ago another species of human looked across the sea towards the mountain of Jebel Musa, clearly visible on the facing shore of Africa: the first Neanderthal bones ever discovered, in 1848, were those of a woman who lived in a cave on the side of the Rock of Gibraltar. Since the original finds were not immediately identified as the remains of a different human species, it was only when, eight years later, similar bones were unearthed in the Neander Valley in Germany that this species gained a name: Neanderthal Man should carry the name Gibraltar Woman. The Gibraltar Neanderthals made use of the sea that lapped the shores of their territory, for their diet included shellfish and crustaceans, even turtles and seals, though at this time a flat plain separated their rock caves from the sea. But there is no evidence for a Neanderthal population in Morocco, which was colonized by homo sapiens sapiens, our own branch of humanity. The Straits apparently kept the two populations apart.


2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Pérez ◽  
ML Abarca ◽  
F Latif-Eugenín ◽  
R Beaz-Hidalgo ◽  
MJ Figueras ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Di Guardo

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