Overview

• The latest cohort landed at Vigo’s Peinador airport from Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay, with an average age of 79 and a participant aged 100.
• The regional government allocated €400,000 for air tickets and is providing accommodation in the Panxón and Carballiño leisure residences.
• Participants will stay for fifteen days in Galicia, with an option to extend up to two additional weeks for those with family in Spain.
• Emigration secretary Antonio Rodríguez Miranda welcomed the group, describing the reunions as especially moving and a chance to experience a prosperous, modern Galicia.
• Several travelers reported that retailers in Madrid refused to sell them mobile phones with a Spanish passport, requesting a DNI instead.