Santiago de Compostela, (EFE).- The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, will travel to Panama, Venezuela and Mexico from April 12 to 17 of the same month, the Galician government announced this Sunday.
During the trip, which will have “a markedly economic nature”, according to the Xunta, the Galician president will hold business and institutional meetings to reinforce strategic alliances woven by common roots”.
As detailed to the regional Executive in a statement, on Wednesday the 12th he will travel to Panama, he will be in Venezuela from Friday the 14th; and on Sunday the 16th and Monday the 17th of April he will remain in Mexico, so on Tuesday the 18th he expects to be back in Galicia.
SECOND TRIP TO AMERICA AS PRESIDENT
Alfonso Rueda’s trip to Panama, Venezuela and Mexico will be the second trip to America as Galician president, a position he took up in May 2022, after the one he made in October last year to Argentina and Uruguay.
On the trip, the Xunta continues, Rueda will meet “with authorities” and also with businessmen and investors “interested in economic and industrial projects in which Galicia works” to consolidate its strengths “taking advantage of its strategic situation as a bridge between America and Europe” and the opportunities that arise in cutting-edge sectors in which the community “has a lot to contribute to the American continent”.
RETURN STRATEGY IN PANAMA, VENEZUELA AND MEXICO
In addition, his agenda includes meetings with Galician associations in the three countries, whose representatives he will inform about the return programs that Galicia has launched, such as the Galicia Returns Strategy 2023-26, since, according to the Xunta, it is of “justice” to offer these citizens the opportunity to return to their land of origin.
The regional Executive approved last December a program to facilitate the return to Galicia of 30,000 people in the next four years “with aid to establish themselves, to continue studies or to get a stable job.”
The Galician Government considers that these types of initiatives have results and maintains that the previous edition of this “pioneering” program in Spain and “which is already being imitated by other communities”, between 2018 and 2022, allowed the return to Galicia of 28,000 people from 40 countries.