While in several European countries it was barely tolerating the outbreak of millions of citizens after lunch, on Christmas Day night, 156 refugees arrived by sea to the Canary Islands, distressed and distressed. As of 15 December this year, 21,000 people have arrived, of whom about 22,000 will be the people arriving in the last few days. Currently, it is estimated that there are about 8,000 migrants, 2,000 of them minors.

The conditions for the refugee footsteps in Greece and the Balkans have been tightened, and the same is happening in the centre of the Mediterranean. Thus, the flow of immigrants has shifted to the west of the country. And one of the news this year in the Canary Islands is that half of the arrivals are Moroccan citizens.

You have to go until 2006 in search of a date that exceeds current arrivals. This year’s summit, however, took place in November, and according to rescue teams working at sea, the figure will increase again when weather conditions are adverse.

All these data have been produced by Miguel Carbajal in an extensive report on the digital medium Ctxt, published on Youtube. “We spent five days at sea and water and food ended on the second day,” says Baiduru Sillah, a 21-year-old Senegalese, in the city of Gran Canaria. He and his barqueros managed to arrive, many others did not. This year the sea has devoured 592 Africans, while eleven others have remained on the desert routes. No one knows how many exactly, but the dead really are many more.

Like cows or sheep, traffickers have turned them into merchandise, but also states. The UN MEP Podemos Miguel Urban Unidas, of the anti-capitalist political force, has assured that “for Morocco it is an escape valve in the face of internal problems”. Furthermore, they blackmail the European Union, closing or widening the refugee escape valve. Turkey also does so in a similar way.

Ctxto’s elaborate and attractive report delves into the way of life of these refugees after their arrival in the Canary Islands, how some manage to reach Europe and how many others are returned to their countries.

In one year there are more than 22,000 people, even more so to travel under these conditions. On the physical map of Africa to Africa, on the political map of Africa to the European Union. On the contrary, it is insignificant to compare it with the 15 million tourists who arrived on the islands last year. One fact that tells us a great deal about the nature of Europeans and our states, when we reach the fourth of the twenty-first century, is the one that tells us, among other things, how easy it is for money to dominate humanity.