Autonomy

Everything is tangled up and contributes to the impression that we are immersed in a negative spiral with no possibility of return, which is beyond us; fuel for the incombustibles of xenophobia, racism and hate speeches, when, in reality, it is the people who have decided to gamble it all or nothing, who suffer the worst consequences of their decision to migrate to find better living conditions, or simply, living conditions. Abdoulie Bah was shot dead by the police outside Gran Canaria airport, an incomprehensible outcome after what we call here "losing one's wits". Nine employees of an organisation that manages centres for migrant minors without family references in the region are arrested, although they are not brought before the courts, as possible perpetrators of threats and crimes of injury, hate and offences against the moral integrity of the children under guardianship at the La Fortaleza facility in Santa Brígida. A criminal organisation dedicated to the trafficking of 14 migrant women, victims of sexual exploitation, was dismantled in Arona. Seven women dead, three of them girls, after the unexpected capsizing of a cayuco full of people inside the Herreño port of La Restinga. Meanwhile, the Spanish autonomous communities and the state continue to calmly settle the solution to the distribution of minors in the archipelago. All this as a prelude to 'Canary Islands Day': 42 years since the beginning of autonomy, with its own democratic institutions. We are now going through one of those exceptional moments, in which it is necessary to demonstrate its usefulness and strength, in the service of its inspiring principles, such as contributing to a "just international order".