Jaime Martínez Llabrés, mayor of the city of Palma de Mallorca, took advantage of a visit this week by Alejandro Castro Medina, Cuban consul in Barcelona, to remind him that the term of loan of Antonio Maceo's chair to Cuba, an object that has become a source of comings and goings between Cuba and Spain in recent years.
“We received the institutional visit from the Cuban consul. Among other matters, Jaime Martínez has taken the opportunity to comment on the term of the loan of Maceo's chair to Cuba and that it should be returned to Palma", can be read in a publication on social networks by the Balearic city council.
"Hahahaha, wait until they give it back to you! How naive!" one Internet user jokingly commented this Wednesday in the comments section of the publication.
During the meeting, Jaime Martínez informed Consul Alejandro Castro Medina of a letter that has been sent to the Office of the Historian of Havana reminding them that the loan term expires on November 16 from the Silla de Maceo to Cuba, so it should be returned to Palma.
Carved in wood and with the initials A.M. flanking the relief of a star, the iconic chair was brought to Mallorca by the general Valeriano Weyler, who donated it to the Palma City Council.
In 2018, within the framework of Pedro Sánchez's visit to Cuba, Spain the temporarily gave way to the island in the midst of no small amount of controversy.
“At first it seems like an illusion to think that the chair will return to Mallorca in the coming months”, the Spanish press reported pessimistically this Wednesday. Ok Diary.
The aforementioned source points out that “Demanding the Government of Cuba to return that object is one of the points of the programmatic agreement between PP and VOX at the Palma City Council.”
It was in 2018 when the then mayor of Palma, Antoni Noguera, from More for Mallorca, lent Maceo's Chair to the Government of Cuba to its exposure for a period of two years, then renewed for five years and that now expires.
That same year, the then Actúa-VOX leader, Jorge Campos, filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against Antoni Noguera, considering that he had committed prevarication by giving up the chair of Cuban General Antonio Maceo to the Havana museum.
“The transfer has been carried out arbitrarily, without the processing of the appropriate administrative file, and generating social alarm as the regulations that protect a movable asset of high historical value and part of the heritage of the city of Palma have been violated. Therefore, we understand that the transfer is illegal and an alleged crime of prevarication could have been committed,” Campos stated at that time.
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