The Canary Islands extended aid to spanish citizens in Cuba to benefit more than 1,500 families, according to an announcement by the Canary Islands president Ángel Víctor Torres visiting the island.
And statement of the Canary Island government regarding Torres' visit assures that the direct aid plan for Canary Islanders in Cuba was multiplied by five to support more than 1,500 families.
The note also states that the announcement of this aid was made by Torres this Sunday during his tour of the municipality of Cabaiguán, in the province of Holy Spirit, where the largest community of Canarian descendants on the island is located.
Torres assured the families who received him in the aforementioned town that "the Government of the Canary Islands will always be with you."
He also assured that the budget items for the assistance programs for the Canarian population in Cuba had an increase in the General Budgets of the Canary Islands for 2023, which made it possible to develop a special plan, endowed with 100,000 euros, to expand the number of people who receive help. humanitarian aid in Cuba from 300 current beneficiaries to 1,500, starting this year.
He also said that he would have liked to go to Cuba earlier to visit a community with which the Canary Islands share “ties and ancestors”, but that it was impossible due to the confluence of the pandemic, migration, the La Palma volcano and the difficulties derived from the war in Ukraine.
According to the statement, the Canarian president this Monday will have several meetings with senior officials of the Cuban Government, among which the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, and of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, stand out.
Torres' visit to Cuba, where the largest Canary Islands community lives abroad (about 65,000 people), is part of a Latin American tour that includes countries with significant Canarian migration and that also includes Venezuela.
At the end of 2022, it was also known that More than 300 Spaniards or descendants residing in Cuba are beneficiaries of aid for people in extreme need, according to data from the Junta de Castilla y León.
Specific, This is a total of 344 Cubans who have requested help from the government of that autonomous community and that they are Castilian-Leonese by birth or by adoption, and that they currently reside in Cuba in conditions of extreme need.
The credit allocated to these aids amounts to a total of 120,000 euros that will be distributed among the 344 beneficiaries as a direct economic benefit, as explained Jesus Julio Carnero, advisor to the Presidency of the Board.
With recent Grandchildren Law Once approved, many more Cubans will become Spanish and the demand for help could also increase, in correspondence with the support that other Spanish citizens already receive on the island.
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