Ortega, Pablo Neruda and Delia del Carriles. Thanks to his efforts, the country was able to receive thousands of Spaniards who, escaping the Franco dictatorship, were stranded in French territory with no definite destination and with the impossibility of remaining in that territory.

Various political and cultural institutions have created a multidisciplinary program that commemorates the arrival of the ship, both in Arica and Valparaiso and in Santiago, cities that welcome Spanish exiles.

The activities bring together cycles of academic days, exhibitions, conferences, literary launches, theatrical performances, a cycle of itinerant cinema, a workshop of applied philosophy, different political acts and a historical recreation where, those who wish, they can incarnate the figure of a passenger in a performance that will replicate the disembarkation in the port of Valparaíso.

The commemoration provides a unique approach because, in addition to revisiting the most well-known aspects, it places emphasis on rescuing the stories of passengers who have not had so much visibility and, especially, the impact of the impact of the arrival of the Winnipeg to Chilean society.