De igual a igual [English translation]

I'm a Bolivian in Italy,

A Columbian in New York,

I am South American in Spain

and Paraguayan from Asuncion

Spanish in Argentina,

German in Salvador,

a Frenchman who went to Chile

Japanese in Ecuador

The world is furnished

with timber from Brazil

and there are big holes

in the jungle of Misiones

Europe does not remember

The vessels which were sent

People wounded by war

this land saved them

If you ask me to go back where I was born

I ask that your corporation leave my country

And we will be on equal terms

And we will be on equal terms

Costa Rican, Nicaraguan, the Puerto Rican,

Arian, Mexican, the Panamanian

form a queue at the Embassy

to realise a dream

While the great thief,

full of precedents

if immigration is stopped

calls for the president

The so-called illegals

who have no documentation

they are the disconsolate

without work and without breath

Illegals are those who

let Pinochet go free

England boasted

of its honour and of its laws.

• Artist:León Gieco
• Album:Bandidos Rurales (2001)