The Boomerang Effect: Colonization, Globalization & the Inverse Flow, by Fernando Fuster-Fabra

Palestinians break out in open conflict, brother against brother, in the line of the undeclared civil rife in Iraq provoked by the savage British-American invasion. Africa suffers its Dafur tragedy as a sequel of American intervention. To avenge terrorist attacks, an eye for an eye, death sowed among men women and children in these parts of the word. Where there could be peace, again there is death, war and tragedy. Where there could be food, now there is famine and illness.

Hordes of men, women and children in dingy crafts seek the shores of Spain and Italy from Africa with the summer weather conditions permitting. Some even risk their lives in late winter. These are the people that flee from the tragedy and misery of hunger and death in their homelands that globalization is accentuating. We who live their tragedies as their Cayucos capsize in international waters or as they scamper across Spanish beaches in the twilight know that we are living the inverse effect of colonization and globalization.

With no alternatives to survive in their homelands and plagued by wars and invasions, the peoples of the underdeveloped nations flee in search of the bonanza of the developed states they view through Internet or listen on radio. Organized mafias market out bonanzas in wonderlands where there is wealth, health and quality of living. Men without scruples charge these poor travelers exorbitant fees to take them across the ocean to the new lands of promise. Some even organize flights at usurious rates from Ecuador or Bolivia into Madrid Barajas Airport and other European destinations.

With terrorist attempt having hit New York, Madrid and London in the first years of the New Millennium, distrust and paranoia has reigned in more than one developed nation of the globe. With this excuse more than one world leader has claimed for revenge against all those that believe in a different creed or exercise distinct cultural traits. Globalization has returned to a colonial stage whereby if one impoverished nation wishes aid from the wealthy nations, then it must succumb to the terms and conditions of such concessions.

The weak have found a silent reply in protect. They have created the boomerang effect, a silent invasion in hordes across oceans and skies. From Latin America, Africa and Asia, a silent invasion is in progress in all justice, thanks to colonization and globalization.


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