This week just two months in which officially the city of London, the most populous and cosmopolitan in Europe, celebrates the advent of Chinese new year. From Trafalgar Square, the most important of the former British Empire, and where it became a spectacle with Oriental dragons, up to Chinatown and its environs have been filled with posters and suggestive banners. Ibero-American communities in London have one population five or more times greater than the one that comes from the far East. Latino and Andean could very well have their own neighborhood where the public comes to buy their products or soak up the Latin American culture. This, not only could serve social centre and cultural but also as a tourist attraction and a support for London boost as multicultural and then Olympic capital. The possibility of doing a Latin quarter there is by the strength of a new community and the boom of new Latino shopping centers, especially in lathe to the districts of Lambeth, Southwark, Islington and Haringey. However, our community is facing some obstacles.
One of them are the plans of the re-desarrollistas trying to demolish properties to build new buildings attractive, modern and exclusive. In Elephant and Castle have succeeded in imposing its model, but there are Seven Sister a strong rejection of the local community who strongly defends Pueblito Paisa and that strategic point of the underground market. Weave alliances with other sectors and other communities and move to the local population is an important lesson that the Pueblito Paisa is showing. A larger one is ourselves. Latinos in London do not have confidence in themselves. Many of them are fearful because they have recently managed to citizenship or residence and others because your situation is temporary or irregular. On the other hand media and community-based organizations do not coordinate among themselves or want to use, for example, the elections London to put pressure. Many communities are enclosed in themselves dedicating himself miss their lands or their diplomats, but without looking like most integrate into this society. It is time that UK latinos may make a Coordinator of all its organizations and the media and to harness these elections to make it feel.