MIGRANT LIVES| The Road Through the Deserts and Jungles

Hello, how are you? Welcome to this podcast, from the Canary Islands to the world. 

Stories of struggle, resilience and hope of migrants seeking a better future, facing cultural, legal and personal challenges in new horizons.

I'm not going to focus on the arrival of boats loaded with dreams. I'm going to talk about how that journey begins, turning into a nightmare.

About what never makes the front pages: the beginning of the escape:

It begins in villages where there is no school, no doctor, no future. In cities where a gang decides whether you live or die. In countries where poverty is not a circumstance, but an inherited curse.

Before boarding a boat in Libya or Morocco, they have already crossed endless deserts, where the sun burns bodies and silence swallows screams.

Where those who can't endure, bury themselves in the sand.

Before reaching the southern border of the United States, they have walked for days through Darién, that brutal jungle between Colombia and Panama.

A hell of mud, snakes, armed groups, and corpses that no one claims.

Today, I'm not talking about the end of the journey. I'm talking about the beginning.

About what no one wants to see. Of the invisible paths where life unfolds, step by step.

Because migrating isn't just crossing a border. It's surviving the journey.

Patricia López Muñoz
Higher Technician in Sociocultural Dynamisation
Specialist Technician in Immigration
Higher Technician in Social Integration