This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

And we continue here with our American stories,

and now it's time for one of our favorite recurring segments,

our American Dreamers series, which is brought to us by the great folks at Job Creators Network,

and they're working hard in Washington, D.C., and state capitals across this country,

trying to work for policies that help small business owners become bigger business owners

and get their part of the American dream.

And now we bring you a powerful immigrant story.

My name is Gladys Gonzalez, and I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia.

My life hasn't been easy,

and maybe because of that, I learned many lessons.

I have learned that life can change from night to day,

for better or for worse,

like it happened to me when I was working in Colombia and I was so happy there.

I had a BP position for a bank with headquarters in New York at the time of the drug dealers war.

In 91, the first drug dealer had to come to the states in extradition.

Our view is the right approach is to bring to justice narcotics traffickers, to coordinate

and cooperate as best as we can with Colombia. The drug dealers said for every drug dealer that you send to the United States,

we are going to kill seven Americans or people that works for Americans.

And at that point, the bank decided to close business in Colombia.

I had been working for them already nine years.

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