(EFE)
Torres made this announcement in Cabaiguán before several hundred Canarians and descendants of Canarians, during the first day of his visit to the Island, where he will meet with members of the largest Canarian community abroad (some 65,000 people) and with national authorities and local.
The Canarian president explained that this aid is due to a special plan endowed with 100,000 euros. The money is expected to start flowing this year.
“This is good news,” Torres later summed up in statements to the media, who vindicated the importance of “solidarity” in difficult times.
He also added that there is already an extra-budgetary political “commitment” to financially help “brothers from the Canaries outside the eight islands.”
He also added that there is already an extra-budgetary political “commitment” to financially help “canary brothers outside the eight islands” with the international cooperation budget item, which will increase “progressively until 2027.” “That’s guaranteed,” she stated.
Torres explained that he would have wanted to “come earlier” to Cuba to visit a community with which the Canary Islands share “ties and ancestors”, but that it was impossible for him due to the confluence of the pandemic, migration, the La Palma volcano and the difficulties derived from the war in Ukraine.
The Canarian president made this visit to Cabaiguán –the Cuban city with the most Canarians– accompanied, among others, by the Spanish ambassador to Cuba, Ángel Martín Peccis, and the Cuban Vice Minister of Culture, Fernando Rojas.
The Canarian president is expected to hold several meetings this Monday with high-ranking officials of the Cuban government, including the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, and of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca.
Torres’ visit to Cuba is part of the president’s Latin American tour of countries with significant Canarian migration and which also includes Venezuela.
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