By Amelia Hill, The Guadian, 13.04.2013
‘Thatcher was trying to smash everything that had helped us’ … Isabel Cortes, 41. (Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian).
‘Thatcher was trying to smash everything that had helped us’ … Isabel Cortes, 41. (Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian).
Isabel Cortes was born in 1972, and came to England as a refugee from Chile when she was five. Arriving with her mother and stepfather, both passionate trade unionists who had to leave because of persecution under the Pinochet government, she remembers how the country that took her family to its heart was even then in the act of being dismantled.
