After the operation that allowed 32 Spaniards to return home from South Africa, yesterday the Spanish Embassy in Pretoria again coordinated a new repatriation to facilitate the return of another 25 Spaniards who, after making the journey between Johannesburg and Amsterdam, may arrive to Spain in the next few hours.
They are joined by another 58 Spaniards who were in Ghana and Angola who also yesterday boarded a Spanish plane that has allowed them to return home thanks to the Spanish Embassies in the area. In addition, another 90 people have traveled on the same plane, most of them Brazilians, as well as 2 community members and 4 foreigners residing in Spain. The Brazilians continued their trip to Sao Paulo. And, finally, six other Spaniards are added who, together with an Ecuadorian, after the collaboration of the Spanish Embassy in Niger with that of France, were able to board a French military plane to leave Chad.
On the other hand, the Spanish Embassy in Romania also facilitated yesterday the return of a total of 97 passengers on two flights chartered by the country, which has just closed all its connections, and which landed in Madrid and Barcelona.
Iberoamerica
The work of the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador also stood out from Ibero-America, which facilitated yesterday the return of 41 Spaniards in a plane from France that made the route Quito-Guayaquil-Paris-Madrid and that, despite a technical breakdown that forced delays one day the operation, they are already back in Spain. This is the eighth flight framed in the European Protection Mechanism, of which four were organized by the Spanish Embassy and have allowed more than 1,000 Spaniards to return from Ecuador.
The various efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation together with the coordination of the Spanish Embassy in Peru have allowed three new aircraft to be re-chartered for the next few days, of which the first departed yesterday for Lima with 100 Peruvians. on board. At the same time, from the Consulate they have issued a notice to all Spaniards who are in the Cuzco area and who have expressed their desire to return to Spain, to register on a list that, exceptionally and after obtaining permits to operate in the airport, a commercial flight from Cuzco to Lima will be provided for Monday, April 13, after the land connection between the two cities has been decreed.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation maintains its network of Consulates and Embassies in permanent contact with all those who try to return to Spain for which it has also created the Aloja platform in which they can register if they have accommodation difficulties in the countries in which they are located and through which they can find alternatives offered by Spanish residents in other countries.