Hours after obtaining the approval of the budgets, and three weeks after his visit to Dublin, the ‘president’ Pere Aragones and the ‘councillor’ for Foreign Affairs and the European Union, Meritxell Serret, will begin this Sunday a nine-day institutional trip to visit four Latin American countries: Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. The records that will be addressed in this journey range from the economic field to cooperation for peace, passing through historical memory and human rights.
During the trip, Aragonès will maintain institutional contacts with national, regional and municipal governments of the four countries, and will also meet with former Latin American leaders, such as the former president of Uruguay Pepe Mujicaand will sign a bilateral cooperation agreement between the Generalitat and the Government of the province of Buenos Aires. In July 2016, then Vice President oriol junqueras He has already paid a visit to the former Uruguayan president as part of a trip that took him to Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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The trip will begin on Sunday in Colombia, where they will hold meetings with cooperation projects and human rights, companies and institutions that they ensure peace in the conflict with the FARC. Wednesday will be the day of the Montevidean appointment with Mujica and the following day the delegation will travel to Argentina, where they will sign the agreement with the province of Buenos Aires, which, with almost 17 million inhabitants, totals almost 40% of the population of the Argentine Republic. On Friday, Aragonès will inaugurate the delegation of the Generalitat in the Southern Cone.
Finally, the Catalan delegation will travel to Chile on Saturday, where they will participate in acts of historical memory coinciding with the 50th anniversary, on September 11, of the coup against the government of Salvador Allendeand they will also participate in a tribute to the singer-songwriter Victor Jara, tortured and assassinated by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in what was the National Stadium of Santiago, already renamed in democracy with the name of the singer, and the artist Roser Bru.