Chilean Senator asks his Government to help Cubans with a "democratic visa"

Senator Felipe Kast, who is also married to a Cuban, has said that it would be fair for the so-called "democratic visa" to be extended to Cuba.

| 4/23/2018 - 10:10am (GMT-5)

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Felipe Kast, senator of the Chilean party Evopolis(Political Evolution) has requested that the Government of his country extend the call to Cuban citizens."democratic responsibility visa", created by Chile for Venezuelan immigrants.

The Chilean newspaperThe Mercury has announced that the initiative is being disseminated through the websitesupport.felipekast.cl/cuba, which explains how the democratic responsibility visa works, which allows migrants to enter the country with a RUT (Single Tax Identification Number). provisional and with legal authorization to find work.

Kast has said that this type of visa is "a tremendous opportunity for our Venezuelan neighbors, who today find themselves restricted in their freedom," and added that for that same reason it is necessary to propose to the government of Sebastián Piñera that this "opportunity is extended to Cuba."

In this video, with which he seeks to activate a campaign in favor of obtaining a “democratic visa” for Cubans, he has specified that he is married to a Cuban woman.

The senator added that the Island is "a country that for years has been trapped in a dictatorship without even the possibility of the Cubans themselves being able to leave the Island to seek a better future."

Felipe José Kast Sommerhoff (1977) is a Chilean commercial engineer, consultant and politician, senator for the Araucanía Region for the period 2018-2026, who was a deputy for Santiago de Chile between 2014 and 2018.

During the first government of Sebastián Piñera he was first Minister of State and then presidential delegate for the emergency camps and villages occupied by the victims of the February 2010 earthquake in Chile.

Kast met the CubanEmelia Puga Bermúdez, with whom he has four children, during a year of studies (Marxist economics and sociology) that he studied at the University of Havana when he was an Economics student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). He would then travel to the US to obtain a doctorate at Harvard.

In 2015,Kast was arrested when he participated in a Ladies in White march in CubaIn the Habana. The event occurred hours after the then Chilean Foreign Minister, Heraldo Muñoz, completed his official visit to the Island together with a Chilean delegation that included Felipe Kast.