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The Minister of RR.EE. referred to the case of the Chilean family stranded off an island in Honduras. He said that whoever runs the family group could be repatriated to Spain, because he has a double passport, but the man wanted someone to take care of the costs of keeping the sailboat anchored. “He wants to go back to his sailboat and that’s a cost of circumstances that makes it very difficult for the state to take it on,” he said.
The chancellor, Teodoro Ribera, referred in conversation with Emol TV to the situation of the Chilean-Spanish family that is stranded off the island of Roatán, honduras, who expressed his intention to return on a sailboat to our country.
In this regard, Ribera noted that the family could not enter Honduras and that the person who runs the family group has a Spanish and Chilean passport.
The minister said there was a repatriation flight to Spaniards in the area, but that the man wanted someone to take care of the costs of leaving the sailboat anchored, “and obviously that was not possible.”
“Cases like these have to be looked at with a significant share of realism. Mr Marcelo Escalante wants to return, but you will understand that perhaps it is easier for him to approach Tegucigalpa, then let’s see if he has passages or not, so that he can return by air. But this is like those who wanted to come back from India with animals,” the chancellor said.
In addition, the minister added that he “wants to return to his sailboat and that is a cost of circumstances that makes it very difficult for the state to take it on.”
