After the First World War, the League of Nations was created as a forum for resolving conflicts between the powers of the time. The idea was that from then on competition to divide the planet up between the colonial powers would be managed peacefully. But it was not and is […]
Author: ThePrisma
Immigrants do favour host countries
Around 22.1 million displaced people remain across the Latin America continent as of the middle of 2023. This figure in Latin America and the Caribbean represented approximately a third of all the new individual asylum applications in the world. This is revealed by new studies from the United Nations […]
New condemnation of the Colombian State for HR violations
On 18 March, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the Colombian state for the political, institutional and ideological persecution carried out by members of the DAS against the Colectivo de Abogados Jorge Alvear Restrepo (Cajar). Germán Ayala Osorio* The ruling states that the state “violated, to […]
Not feeling comfortable in the English capital
At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with her partner, to London. She was born in Pereira, but only spent her childhood and part of her adolescence there. This routine was interrupted […]
Overcrowding, the biggest problem of Latino immigrants
45% of the Latin American immigrant community living in London are not happy with their living conditions. Their biggest problem is overcrowding. The Prisma’s memoirs. _ Miriam Valero Maritza* is a 37 year old Bolivian, born in Cochabamba. After living in Spain, she decided to travel to the UK […]