When I was put in prison and tortured and called a damned Columbian black, that was a clear indication that there was a racial aspect to the problem. There is also the fact that I was tortured in a different way. There was public torture in one case, because they wanted to show others what they were doing to me, to humiliate me. When I was stopped or put in prison, Mexico was trying to beef up its statistics about what it was doing on the war against drugs.
The other thing that you really have to know is that migrants are dying in Mexico. Migrants are being killed in Mexico. This is a very serious situation because we've seen hundreds killed. I think there are 104 migrants who were found in San Fernando in a common grave.
There's also the investigation of Ayotzinapa. There were 200 or 300 common graves that were found. How many common graves of migrants will have to be found in Mexico? We know about the security situation. With the way I was stopped and put in prison, there is a racial connection. But there's also the connection that has to do with the government's desperation to prove that it's actually having success in the war against drugs and that its prisons are full.
But the prisons are full of migrants going through Mexico. When you have charges linked to weapons, because some migrants have those weapons, then the military creates a report saying that it is for drug-related purposes. It's impossible to refute those kinds of things.