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"The trip lasted about eight days navegan-
do nonstop, without food, with waves very
powerful. We collided, the mechanism
boat failed and were days adrift "
Ethiopian said, to ensure that thought
they would lose their lives. Now the
23 Eritreans, Ethiopians nine eight Somalis
and a Guinean hope to get a
refugee status that would allow them
live legally in Costa Rica. In the
most cases, immigrants
They fled their countries because they are in
war and "persecuted for their religion,
thought or force them to enlist
in the army".
transatlantic voyage
Protection for Africans in Europe
"What am sending my home is part of the wages
lower than win here in Belgium, but there
It serves for the family to live well, well
save some for when
return to Somalia and put
a business". For the year
2000 became visible the pre-
presence of children on the streets
of our cities, children
they were alone,
without the presence of adults
that charge be made
them in the city that
They had arrived. Given the in-