Julia Aceituno first set foot in Girona in 1990. She had grown up in Talanga, a small town of 40,000 inhabitants an hour from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, and at the time she was 36 years old and had three children. "I came for a holiday during the time of Felipe González," she recalls. At that time in Girona there were only nine of her compatriots: "We all knew each other!". Thirty-six years later, in the urban area of Girona alone, it is estimated that there are about 20,000 people of Honduran origin, and in the entire province, 40,000.

Yeni Sánchez, 33 years old, is Honduran and has been living in Girona with her husband for three years. She has two children, a boy and a girl. In recent months, she has been living in an irregular situation after losing international protection. This week, however, she has been able to apply for the "extraordinary regulation for migrants. She has already submitted the application and, within weeks, she expects to have the provisional response to obtain residence and work permits. "It has been a horrible few months, but now I'm starting to feel calm and very hopeful," she explains.

Recent history is replete with episodes of intervention by the United States, as well as other major powers, in countries of the Global South to influence political and economic decisions in favor of their interests. In Latin America and in the case of the US, the most recent explicit examples are the support for coups d'état and neoliberal dictatorships of the second half of the 20th century. After a softening of these dynamics in recent decades, since Donald Trump's arrival at the White House, especially during his second term, interventionism has once again become fiercer and less disguised, and in recent months cases of interference have multiplied.