Madrid (EFE) job reinsertion of former FARC guerrillas as a sign of Spain’s support for the peace process.
The trip, the eighth in which Doña Letizia has donned the characteristic red vest of Spanish cooperation since she was queen, is intended to give visibility to her work in a country considered a priority by Spain in which she has been present for more than 30 years.
The queen, who is accompanied by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, will fly at 2:00 p.m. to Cartagena de Indias, where she will be received by Verónica Alcocer, the wife of Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
His agenda will open tomorrow, Tuesday, in the Caribbean city with a visit with the first lady to a drinking water supply project, followed by lunch offered by his hostess.
On Wednesday, Doña Letizia will fly to Cali, in the southwest of the country, where she will travel to a coffee farm where former FARC combatants work who have managed to reinsert themselves after the peace agreement signed in November 2016 by former President Juan Manuel Santos. with this guerrilla for which more than 13,000 combatants laid down their arms.
The presence of the queen in Colombia coincides with the commotion that the Andean country is experiencing after the rescue last Friday, after 40 days, of the four indigenous children who had been lost since May 1 in the Amazon jungle after the accident of the plane in which they were traveling with their mother, the pilot and another adult.