By: ildefonso gutiérrez azopardo & José martín buenadicha  (Page 4/5)

External debt

Human plundering

Not counting Brazil and Mexico, with a population over the rest of the countries of the continent, it is calculated that there are more than 15 million emigrants from Latin America. To the majority, this emigration makes up at least 10% of their population happening in a relatively short time. With the aggravating circumstances, the rest of the population is on the wait to see how things happen before leaving.

The emigrant population is generally young and in search for any type of work. Most are enterprising people, assuming the challenge of an uncertain future, with the sufficient economic resources to travel; a high percentage of people with university studies, technicians, professionals, and other entrepreneurs. This is an escape of “brains” which concerns the level of health of the continent with thousands of doctors, dentists, nurses, and sanitary personnel that have left their countries in last the years.

News about Africa: There are more Africans in the US today than during slave traffic days. The Sub-Saharan Africa counts with about 600,000 individuals; most of them are professionals living in the main cities of the United States. There are 250,000 African professionals in the rest of the US, qualified personnel, lawyers, engineers, experts in new technologies, doctors and nurses working outside Africa. Qualified Africans that left the country to study in European or American universities, or did their Postgraduate or Master degree abroad to complete their academic formation, have a wide range of opportunities emigrating to Europe, United States, Canada, or Australia. All the studies have by one form or another been paid by the State, without a penny being spent by receiving countries in the formation of these professionals.

The drain people are exposed to and the loss of millions of professionals is perhaps the most important factor of impoverishment of the countries of origin.

At the same time, human expulsion has become a temporal social, political, and economic solution for these countries. A person of high standing in Morocco recently said in an interview "I am going to be honest, each Moroccan emigrant who crosses the Strait is a mouth less to feed, one less happy person that remains at home and if the things go well, he will shortly have the sources to help his relatives who remain here. Then why should we prevent them from leaving?” Is it possible to refer to governments and countries who export emigrants as if they were kings and heads of tribes with the African slaves in last centuries?