The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has presided, at the Spanish Embassy in Mexico, the ceremony commemorating the 85th anniversary of the arrival in Veracruz of ‘Sinaia’, the first ship of Spanish exile. The North American country hosted 25,000 Republicans, who were received “with open arms” by the then president Lázaro Cárdenas and by the Mexican people.
During the day, the minister also visited the Luis Vives Institute, one of the educational centers founded by the Spanish exiles themselves.
The minister also visited the tomb of the poet Luis Cernuda, and made a floral offering in the Spanish Pantheon before the graves of Spanish intellectuals, teachers, scientists and artists in exile such as León Felipe, César García Lombardía, Ramón Xirau, Matilde de la Torre, José Moreno Villa, José Giral Pereira, Max Aub, Cipriano Rivas, Manuel de Rivas, Rafael Altamira, Manuel Tagüeña and Carmen Parga.