“Our perception of reality and the institutions themselves are designed to solve isolated and well-defined problems, but they are overwhelmed when a problem is intertwined with others and requires the collaboration of various actors, logics and institutions. The real problem is that society itself is in crisis because the management of these crises has to be carried out in a world that is interdependent, decentralized, postcolonial, of distributed intelligence, radically plural. Current crises reveal a critical state of society; they are crises that cannot be resolved through political decisions because those decisions are also marked by the crisis.”
A concentration camp[1] or internment camp is a detention or confinement center where people are imprisoned for belonging to a generic group rather than for their individual acts, without prior trial and without judicial guarantees, although there may be legal coverage integrated into a system of repression or persecution.
Transparency International has made public on the web FragDenStaat, a report prepared by a German diplomat denouncing conditions similar to those of concentration camps in Libyan detention centers. Angela Merkel herself officially presented reports in which the German government states that in the refugee camps in Libya, financed with European money, acts of indiscriminate violence are committed against detained foreigners. The document is titled “Agadez. Back to hell.” El País, published on July 2, 2017 “At the gates of hell. Agadez, in Niger, is the gateway to the Sahara desert and an enclave on the migratory route to Libya”. On August 1, 2017, an opinion article entitled “Our extermination camps” was published in the same newspaper, signed by Lucila Rodriguez Alarcón.
The Pope stated in February 2022 that “there are concentration camps” for migrants in Libya, especially pointing out that Italy and Spain, countries where the greatest demographic decline in Europe occurs, must welcome, accompany and integrate a greater number of refugees.
A slave market[2] is a place where enslaved human beings are bought and sold.
The International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency, confirms the existence of slave markets with sub-Saharan migrants in Libya. Between 500 and 300 euros are paid per person. Oscar Camps, director of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms, states that strong men are sold if they are fit for construction work or hard work, while women and children are sexual slaves.
A Unicef report assures that 77% of migrants under 25 years of age suffer abuse on the route to European borders. Minors and women are more at risk due to their obvious vulnerability.
Erdogan[3] demanded freedom of movement and visa liberalization, updating of trade agreements and better financial assistance for Turkey. In exchange, the Turkish police and army, financed with European money, ensure control of the borders with Europe and prevent the passage of migrants. Ankara calls its concentration camps, financed with European money, “temporary protection centers”. Turkey gives a figure: four million refugees in its container cities. Europe also puts its figure: six billion euros to retain refugees on the Turkish borders.
Our borders are closed to human beings at the cost of financing concentration camps in neighboring countries. We ignore the flagrant and massive violation of Human Rights in the camps that we finance. Our borders are open to raw materials. Europe imports cocoa, coffee, tea, tropical fruits, spices, cereals, liquors, dairy products, oil, gas, coltan, lithium from the African continent.... The Maghreb region (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) is especially important in trade with Spain. Europe obtains raw materials from the African continent, Africa buys manufactured products from Europe.
Mafias are organized groups dedicated to crime. The Russian mafia is among the five most dangerous criminal organizations in the world. The government of Mariano Rajoy approved in 2015 the residence visa for the acquisition of real estate in Spain. Russians and Chinese monopolized visas for buying houses in Spain. For a minimum investment of 500,000 euros, the right of residence and work for five years in Spain is acquired. After those five years, the doors are opened to acquire Spanish nationality. The Chinese (37% of transactions) benefited from this prerogative in the first place, then the Russians (26.6%) and in third place the Ukrainians (3.9%)[4].
The measure was sold as an incentive to attract the talent of highly qualified professionals and promote investment projects, that is, bricks. Public debt was also traded. In the decade from 2010 to 2020, some 87,000 highly qualified Spanish workers, trained in public schools and universities, left Spain in search of work in other countries. It is the so-called brain drain led by Spain and Italy[5].
Operation Testudo against the mafia of Eastern Europe confirmed that the leaders of Russian organized crime invest huge amounts of their loot on the tourist coasts of the Mediterranean. The laundered money of the Russian oligarchs benefits the economy of an area punished by the tourist and construction crisis. The police and several political representatives of the Valencian coast are presented in the instruction as allies and partners of the underworld network. These patriots belong to the Popular Party. President Putin has chosen the Altea area to enjoy his vacations on several occasions.
Hypocrisy is the pretense of qualities or feelings contrary to those that are truly held or experienced.
The Spanish government coordinates with the communities a contingency plan to receive refugees from the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees will pass over the camps of migrants from the wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan... who have been going hungry and cold on European borders for years. On the same day that the proposal to grant temporary protection to Ukrainian refugees was debated, based on a European Directive of 2001 that had never been activated, some 2,500 people tried to jump the Melilla fence. It is the biggest jump in its history. The migrants of Melilla have been returned to the police of Morocco, without legal assistance, without humanitarian attention. The wounds from the concertinas installed on our borders remained open on their black skin.
According to the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, the Mediterranean coast and the Canary Islands are two of the places in Europe where climate change will be most noticeable[6]. Desertification, loss of biodiversity, rising tides, temperatures and energy dependence on the outside will cause direct damage in the communities where anthropization has been more evident and uncontrolled. The tourism industry and criminal urbanism aggravate CO2 emissions, worsen climate vulnerability and the dependence of these regions on the outside.
Capitalism is the economic and social system based on private ownership of the means of production, on the importance of capital as a generator of wealth and on the allocation of resources through the market. Capitalism governs the world economy, directs public policies, governs and feeds on the phenomenon of globalization. The indiscriminate use of the planet's resources and raw materials in favor of an economic system based on consumerism and waste by a very small part of the world's population (the so-called developed countries) has caused planetary limits to be exceeded, seriously endangering the habitability of the earth. This way of understanding “economic development” in the first world has generated loss of biodiversity, water pollution, deforestation and abuse of the soil, ozone hole, acidification of the oceans, climate crisis, chemical and atmospheric pollution. In some cases exceeding all limits of certainty.
The consequences of capitalist development without limit or control are already suffered by all beings that inhabit the planet[7]. The economic activity and lifestyle of the richest 10% of the planet's population contributes 50% of greenhouse gases. 50% of the planet's population contributes 10% of CO2 emissions. However, although the most polluting countries are the most developed, the most dramatic consequences are already being experienced in the poorest countries. Drought, pollution, desertification, deforestation, acidification and hunger cause massive migratory movements, they are the so-called climate migrants. The displaced by the effects of climate change in the most vulnerable countries could reach figures of hundreds of millions in 2050.
The wars for the control of energy have caused the largest number of migrations in recent years. It is energy neocolonialism. The scarcity of minerals and raw materials necessary to sustain our “privileged way of life” moves the war machine to the control of countries where the largest reserves of oil, gas, lithium, coltan remain... The largest number of displaced by hunger, thirst, extreme poverty and violence come from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Ethiopia, Yemen...and now Ukraine.
The refugees of our energy and climate wars move massively, in a desperate movement to save their lives and those of their children, to the European borders. They suffer a calvary of aggressions and sexual abuse on the way. They are victims of human trafficking mafias on the borders and institutional violence in Europe. Abuse, ignorance and irrationality fuel xenophobia and racism. Fear is used as a political weapon. The satraps feed the European extreme right.
Non-Governmental Organizations and the Ombudsman have denounced abuse, violence and subhuman conditions of survival in refugee camps financed with your money. There are internment camps in the Canary Islands where people are confined due to their status as migrants. They are detained on the islands, their documentation is withdrawn and they are prevented from traveling to meet their families in European countries where cousins, uncles, siblings, parents reside.... Parents are denied the possibility of burying their daughter who died on the Canary route without running the risk of being deported[8]. We bury hundreds of unidentified bodies.
The circle is the surface of a plane enclosed by a circumference, and this in turn is the set of all points on the plane equidistant from a point called the center, that constant distance being the radius. The circle is the most perfect geometric shape, it has no beginning or end.
[1]https://www.elsaltodiario.com/libia/campos-detencion-libios-campos-concentracion
[2]https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-hombres-400-euros-mercados-esclavos-regresan-libia-201711161300_noticia.html
[3]https://elpais.com/internacional/2021-03-22/la-ue-ofrece-a-turquia-nuevas-ayudas-para-los-refugiados-en-un-intento-de-reconciliacion-con-erdogan.html
[4]https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2018/05/04/midinero/1525450395_341550.html
[5]https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20190415/461645928461/mercado-laboral-union-europea-fuga-de-cerebros.html?facet=amp
[6]https://www.canarias7.es/sociedad/informe-constata-canarias-20220306193059-nt.html
[7]https://ctxt.es/es/20220301/Firmas/38962/informe-ipcc-grupo-2-cambio-climatico-decrecimiento.htm
[8]https://elpais.com/espana/2022-02-12/siete-meses-de-calvario-para-enterrar-a-la-pequena-yamila.html?ssm=whatsapp
