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  • Diego Luz Tzunux takes a picture with his cell phone of his brother Manul Lux Tsunux, who dissapeared  in 1980, and now is being exhumated by forensic anthropologists, Uspantan, Quiche, Monday, August 3, 2009. Diego Luz Tzunux was tortured and masacred allegedly by the Guatemalan Army during the civil war.  Forensic anthropologists have begun to use DNA sampling and analysis to identify victims of human rights abuses committed during this country's 36-year-long civil war that left 200.000 dead and 40.000 disappeared.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
From an economical perspective, the growth of the construction sector in Spain and the extensive demand for low-cost workers for the service sectors, where the mosts important factors when analysing the migratory flows of the 90's. On the other hand, the South American countries where at the same time facing different economical, political and social crisis, that are also important to consider in order to fully understand the attraction and expulsion factors creating the migratory flows. During the first 10 years of receiving migrants, Spain's economical system didn't give any signals of possible future bubbles and the immigration was perceived as nothing but necessary. However in 2008, when the crisis hit the situation changed drastically and the spanish economy could no longer absorb all the immigrated labour force. In less than a year the unemployment rate in Spain rose to 15% and when entering enter 2010 it reached 20% of the work force. It is estimated that more than 5,000.000 people are unemployed in Spain. It is also estimated that 26% of the unemployed are immigrants. In contrast to before, immigrants are now an easy escape goat for all current problems.<br />
In this picture an ecuatorian worker is cleaning a venue after the mexican independence celebration in Barcelona.
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  • A sugar cane cutter poses for a picture during a break of the San Antonio sugar plantation where 'Flor de Cana' rum is produced, Chichigalpa, Nicaragua. A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Many of the victims were manual laborers or worked in the sugarcane fields that cover much of the coastal lowlands.
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
Resume:<br />
Spain is recognized as one of the new immigration countries in Europe. Since 1996 this country has changed dramatically from having been a country that people left to be a country that people move to. During the past 10 years, thank's to the rapid growth of the construction and service sectors, the population with foreign decent has increased and now amounts to 13,5% of the country's total population. The majority of the new citizens of Spain have come from Latin America, primarily from Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic. It is estimated that there are around 6 million foreigners in Spain and Barcelona is the second city to has a largest latin american community. In Barcelona it is estimated that 18% of the population is immigrated. Ten years ago, the immigrants were the answer to Barcelona growing economy, but as a consequence of the crisis that hit Spain in 2008 the immigrants are now rather seen as the source of the economic problems. This story aims at portraying the daily life of the new citizens of Barcelona on order to widen the discussion about the immigrants and their role in the society. This story is part of a documentary photo project called The new citizens of Barcelona and has been published in 2010 by several media like: Mondaphoto of Mexico, the newspaper El Telegrafo and Expreso from Ecuador and the photodocumentary latin american magazine Sueno de la Razón. <br />
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The face of Danny Rosado from the Dominican Republic reflects in the glass of the window of the train that takes her to her home in Barcelona. Danny came to Barcelona in 2003 and started to work as a domestic assistant. In 2008 she got married to Emilio (spanish) and moved with him to  a single room in a shared apartment  with an ecuatorian family living in Cornella. After she moved to live with her husband, she worked taking care of her mother in law who had Alzheimer's disease.
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  • Yoli Mejia, 67, poses for a picture during a third age parade celebrating Saint Valentine's Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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  • Two travestites men posses for a picture inside a house during a celebration called "Torovenado" in honor of the patron saint San Jeronimo in Masaya near of Managua, Nicaragua, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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  • Latin American Immigrants in Barcelona.<br />
One of the most crowded events in Barcelona, hosted by the latinamerican collectives is the celebration of the independency from Spain in the 19th century. Every year countries like Ecuador, Perú and Colombia, together with the local government, organise this event in the Forum Plaza. The event offers music, dance, tipical food, folklore and celebrities from South America, who come particularily for this occasion. It is estimated that each county's independence celebraton gathers about 35.000 people. In this picture - the celebration of the peruvian collective.
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  • In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, Brothers former sugar cane cutters of the San Antonio sugarmill,  Juan Cruz, 50, right, and Hilario Perez Cruz, 30, left, chronic renal failure patients, posses for a picture in a house in Trohilo, Leon, Nicaragua. A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Many of the victims were manual laborers or worked in the sugarcane fields that cover much of the coastal lowlands.
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  • Afghan Mohammad Akbar, 65, a former Mujahedeen fighter who became blind of his right eye, asks for a portrait holding his picture when he was 30, after cutting some grass near Soviet tanks destroyed during the 80's war, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on May 9, 2011. Photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
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