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9 out 2025

By Eoghan Gilmartin, Jacobin (USA)

In Spain, Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat

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Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the effects of the climate crisis are offloaded on the least visible workers…

Gheorghe Vranciu was on a ten-hour shift picking fruit near Lleida, Catalonia. By 2 p.m., the sixty-one-year-old Romanian had become overwhelmed by the heat — and asked to go home…

…During record temperatures in June, an undocumented Pakistani worker also succumbed to heatstroke after being dropped outside the entrance of a medical center in Fraga, Aragón, by colleagues who then fled the scene…

According to the Andalusian Workers’ Union (SAT), a farm laborer from Senegal, who worked in the vast industrial greenhouses in the southern region of Almería, also died of heatstroke on the job on August 27. A forty-year-old Moroccan was admitted to an intensive care unit for the same condition in Murcia, having worked most of his shift without a water break…

… those whose work sustains this lucrative sector now find themselves on the front line of the country’s climate crisis…

… Vranciu was working for a temporary employment agency on an estate of a company controlled by one of Catalonia’s richest men…

Payment below the legal daily minimum — €57.50 — is chronic in Huelva…