Cara Tabachnick

Cara Tabachnick covers global crime and conflict including reporting on drugs, violence, police and prisons for publications ranging from The Washington Post to Bloomberg Businessweek. She splits her time between New York and Spain.

A woman porter in Ceuta wears colorful straw hat and leopard print jacket

Morocco’s ‘mule women’ risk their lives hauling goods across the border from Spain

May 28, 2019Borders

After several female porters were trampled to death in Ceuta, Spain, private merchants took measures to improve working conditions. But is it enough?