Lozano: “This wonderful country allowed me to graduate as a lawyer”

Anderson Lozano is Colombian and has lived in Argentina for just over 14 years. At the National University of the Litoral he had the opportunity to study and become a lawyer, which would have been impossible for him in his country of origin. During his visit to ENETV, he recounted his experience and why he became Argentine naturalized.

“I arrived in Argentina a little over 14 years ago, I was given the opportunity to study at the National University of the Litoral, from which I graduated as a lawyer a couple of years ago. I became a naturalized Argentine because I began to feel that my life project was going to be here and more because of the profession that God, life, and the country allowed me to study,” Anderson explained.

“This wonderful country allowed me to graduate as a lawyer,” Lozano emphasized and explained that “In Colombia it would not have been possible for me, it would not have been within my possibilities or those of my parents,” since in their country of origin “education was not a state policy and it still is not.” Over there “It is very difficult to access education as well as health, they are not state policies unfortunately.”

Drawing a parallel between both countries, Anderson Lozano highlighted that “Colombia as a society is totally different from Argentina, here it is made up of a large flow of mostly European immigration, in Colombia that did not happen with the same intensity, it is socially made up of a large percentage of Afro, indigenous population; without prejudice to which we share some similarities as Latin Americans.”

While in Argentina, Lozano highlighted: “I do not have any type of reproach or complaint in terms of the fact that I have felt discriminated against, marginalized, not only because of my status as a foreigner but also because I am black: I have not felt it. The reception of the Argentine towards foreigners – there are exceptions – but in general it is a very friendly country for outsiders, the Argentine does not have this thing of saying I reject you because. I have been in Paraná for 14 years and 8 months and I have never been discriminated against, I have never had to go to INADI and file a complaint for discrimination.” He added in relation to the organization: “I understand that it is necessary that there be a place at the national, provincial, municipal level where that person, given this exceptionality that may exist, can go if they feel that way, because discrimination not only has to do with a a matter of nationality, it may be due to gender, due to different circumstances, due to social condition. That eventually, as a matter of state policy, it is decided to dismantle such an important organization seems misguided to me, INADI should be preserved as such.”

As a member of the Institute of Penal Thought, Lozano pointed out: “Thanks to Miguel Cullen, José Pérez, Patricio Cozzi and others, they have welcomed me to begin walking this path of criminal law, which is wonderful. “They have invited me to make a couple of trips around the province to start having contacts with colleagues.”