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A group of Argentines stranded in Barcelona protested in front of the embassy

“We are not all until the last one returns”That is the claim of the Argentines who are still stranded in Spain. Caught by the pandemic, it has no forecast of a return from the Argentine government.

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WhatsApp groups gather more than 800 Argentines hoping to return to the country. Most of them are stranded between Madrid and Barcelona. The Iberian country is one of the major sources of contagion and deaths in the world. According to the world count carried out by Johns Hopkins University, there are 228,030 infected and 26,920 dead, the fifth country in the world where Covid-19 hit the most.

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Among Argentines abroad there are populations at risk, pregnant women, and even people who need to resume medical treatment. They take more than three weeks without having a formal answer of when they will be able to return to Argentina. Desperate for lack of money, and the possibility of getting a job, they decided to take action. They organized from the social networks a mobilization in front of the Argentine Foreign Ministry in Barcelona.

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“Today, May 13, some Argentines stranded in Barcelona demonstrate in front of the Argentine consulate in Barcelona. Again after two months of uncertainty and sadness and instability, we did not receive a certain response, “says the call, which will be repeated on Friday the 15th.

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“We will continue to insist insistently that our rights are contemplated. Hopefully more stranded will join our fight, so we can go home“, Stand out.

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In front of the building on Passeig de Gràcia street, they left a form with a complete list of contact details for each citizen.

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“It is really outrageous, desperate, distressing, not having a concrete answer to when we can return to our homes. Also having to listen to lies, and take advantage of the need of those who are stranded. I feel sadness, anger, a lot of anguish ”, highlights Viviana in her social media account.

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The Argentine Consul General in Barcelona, ​​for his part, indicated that they attend 24-hour emergency calls by telephone, but that they do not define flights to Argentina.

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From the Argentine Foreign Ministry they confirmed that the next repatriation flight from Barcelona will arrive in Buenos Aires this Thursday, May 14 by Aerolineas Argentinas, with 243 passengers. All were chosen strictly following sanitary measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic in our country. That plane left Buenos Aires on the 12th with the same number of Spaniards to be repatriated. So far, 67 operations have been carried out by Aerolineas Argentinas to bring compatriots stranded in different parts of the world.

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According to the chancellor Felipe SoláThere are 24,501 Argentines who want to return, a “universe that is constantly expanding” among those who were traveling on vacation and were surprised by the pandemic and those who settled abroad today lost their jobs. “In addition, he completed,” for a month, the consulates began to make a list of Argentines who wanted to return from abroad “and who will respect “The order of date of the passage that each one had, so that those with the closest return would be the first to return.”

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