The mayor of Santa Úrsula, Juan Acosta (AISU), recently received the visit of the Cuban ambassador to Spain, Marcelino Medina, and the Cuban consul in Canary IslandsElsa Agramonte. The meeting took place in the northern town hall, where they spoke about the origins of the Cuban ambassador, whose grandfather was a native of Santa Úrsula, from where he emigrated to the Caribbean island with his entire family at the end of the 19th century.
Marcelino Medina received from the mayor a book of the history of Santa Úrsula, as well as a document with information on her family’s genealogical tree, which includes her Santa Ursula background and the birth certificate of her grandfather, Ángel Antonio del Santísimo Sacramento Medina, “a present that moved the ambassador”, according to the local government.
During the visit, the representatives of the Cuban Government expressed their interest in carrying out a cultural exchange between the towns of Santa Úrsula and Matanzas, a Caribbean city that is a cultural benchmark in Cuba and where there is “a notable miscegenation between the populations of Canarian origin and Afro-Caribbean”, they explain from the Consistory.
