especially in Italy and France), or a
promiscuous homosexual."
Carlos recalls an event recently back in Colombia where Marxist guerrillas
took over an area and subjected its entire population to compulsory HIV
tests. Those that tested positive were run out of town - or worse.
"There is a thing the guerrillas do called 'La Pesca Milagrosa'",
he says. The term means 'The miraculous catch' and with wry Catholic humour
refers to one of Christ's more practical miracles, where he arranged a
huge glut of fish for St Peter on Lake Galilee. "They stop a bus
and look through everyone's possessions. If you have money, they take
it. If you just have your underpants, you have to give up those. If you
are found with HIV medication, well...you are in big trouble. Most likely
they will kill you then and there." [A few days after
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interviewing Alex and Victor, PN coincidentally received a letter from
a positive couple in Colombia describing the problems there: see Letters.]
He echoes what Jose says about Latinos' vulnerability to HIV. "They
are coming from a very oppressive country to a free one. So it's easy
to go mad. Europeans like our
skin and what they see as our 'hot Latin blood'. They think it's easy to persuade us not to use condoms, and all too often that's true."
