They all say that Columbians are all migrants, economic migrants. That's not true. Because very many of the Columbian that are here are politically minded. People who participate in the democratic process there, or whatever. I'm not talking even about the guerrilla movement; I'm talking about democratic process.
Very recently I had a pleasure to talk to one of the… candidates for Columbia, the next presidential elections. I can't remember exactly his name now, was one of the big names in Columbia Restrepo or something. And I--, I was thinking while he was talking, I am talking to… the next corpse that's going to be in Colombia, because most of the candidates are killed by Para-military or whatever.
So that's the state of the situation, turmoil. Latin America is still--, we are in… in the 21 century and still we haven't settled. My political analysis of that is not that the fault lies completely with the Latin Americans, the fault of that is or belongs to the most, the predatory practices of some of the… countries like United State, the government the United States, or the government of other countries, of western--, of Europe. And because of the cycle of exploitation that is in our economies there, from transnational companies and so on, they're paying the consequences.
And so we came here, not because of ourselves, we came here because some of the countries intervened there and produced such a state that we were unable to continue our normal life there.
And that has to be understood when people in Britain speak about 'why we are accepting more refugees' or asylum seekers. Never mind about Latin America, about Africa, Asia and so on, but it is because some countries are intervening in that process there and altering the whole balance of the situation, and therefore our people has no possibility but migrate.
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