Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
Abused and almost killed in Latin America by her ex-partner, she fled to Spain where she encountered racism. She has been in London for three years and now faces exploitation in the workplace: including not being paid, being overworked to the point of not being able to walk and suffering verbal abuse.
In their workplaces, 16% of Latin American women suffer abuse: from physical violence, insults and threats to sexual harassment, verbal comments of sexual content, sexual abuse and even rape. They do not report them and when they happen, managers look the other way and the aggressors go unpunished.
Censorship, hostility or repression against the homosexual community or immigrants are realities that still exist in British and Spanish society. Talking about it is not always easy, but with art, many things are possible…and more effective.
After two years of court proceedings, Karol Marmolejo lives with the anguish of the second kidnapping of Angelo, her 9-year-old son. His father, Rafael, is the perpetrator. In a conversation with The Prisma, Karol told her story of the incessant search for her youngest son.
On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll do anything. Up to and including putting up with the exploitative conditions that unscrupulous impresarios, knowing they don’t have ‘papers’, that they’re ‘illegal’, will subject them to. Division Ave grasps and reproduces this reality.
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