Mexico City, Apr 15 (EFE).- The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, invited Galician businessmen in Mexico to invest and return to their native land.
Within the framework of his visit to the celebration of the traditional festival of La Ramollosa, in the Galician Center of Mexico, based in Iztapalapa, Rueda assured that it is a land of legal security and stability.
“I am going to invite you to invest in Galicia, which is a land with legal certainty, with stability, with many projects on the table that can turn out very well and, therefore, it is worth investing in”, he stated.
After a mass to celebrate the Virgin of the Incarnation, the president of the Xunta also announced that this Monday he will have a meeting with “powerful businessmen” at the facilities of the Centro Gallego de México.
“Tomorrow I will go with all the pride and with all the strength that all of you give us to say that Galicia is now a land of opportunities,” he said, adding that they will always welcome their community in Mexico with “open arms.”
“We will always welcome you with open arms, from those who want to come to meet us in the summer, your children who meet us for the first time, those who have not come to Galicia for a long time, the elderly and who have an opportunity and those who simply want to return,” he said.
The president of the Xunta de Galicia maintained that this is a right that all Galicians and their descendants have who one day had to leave Galicia to return to their land.
He recalled that the “Return Strategy” program is part of this framework, in which, he explained, we simply give opportunity to people who know how to work, to people who know how to fight.”
Rueda stated that what was at one time “a land of farewells” ceased to be so and currently “is a land of welcomes, so that you want to come for a moment, so that you want to spend a summer or so that you want to return permanently. We wait for you”.
In his speech, Manuel Hernández y Ruigómez, Consul General of Spain in Mexico, indicated that the Consulate has two projects underway.
The first, he explained, is that nationality is being granted to the grandchildren of Spaniards for the next three years, concluding in November 2025.
“I want to invite you that if you know of any Mexican who has a Spanish grandfather who comes to the Consulate, we need more Spaniards,” he said.
The second project, he said, is the preparation of local elections in Galicia and other autonomous communities.
Hernández y Ruigómez pointed out that the elections will take place at the Spanish Hospital, where some ballot boxes will be placed.
“We will be able to vote from May 20 to 25 (…) between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the so-called Red Room of the Spanish Hospital, so I invite all those who can vote to participate,” he concluded.
For his part, Antonio Rodríguez Miranda, General Secretary of Migration of the Xunta, also celebrated that scholarships will be offered to young people who wish to study in Galicia.
Meanwhile, Alfonso Martínez, president of the Centro Gallego, said that, in Mexico, “we carry the Galician land in our hearts.”