Jorge Salazar: Salazar and Pradera Neighbourhood

jorge salazar: One of the youth leaders profiled this week is a former young refugee, who four years ago, was also given the award, according to CBC. Jorge Salazar as a teenager in Colombia with some of his aunts and cousins. The event caps multicultural week put on by the Ministry of International Trade. His family fled the country, worried they would not survive attacks from paramilitary groups. These are conversations that we have to have, even though there a lot of emotions that goes along with them, Salazar said. Jorge Salazar was just a teenager when he fled his close-knit La Pradera neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia with his mom, dad, sister and brother, leaving dozens of close friends and family behind. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.