As of March 31, 2011, a total of 321,623 citizenship applications have been submitted to benefit from the so-called Law of Historical Memory, and 187,076 have been approved 125,609 passports were issued . A large majority of them, around 120,000, are countries in Latin America, according to data provided by the First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the Constitutional Committee of the Congress of Deputies.
Rubalcaba appeared in this Commission on Wednesday to explain the application that is doing the Government of the Act by recognizing and extending rights and establishing measures for those who suffered persecution or violence during the War Civil or dictatorship, the so-called Law of Historical Memory.
Measures for the recognition and repair, which had regulatory development in the years 2008 and 2009, recalled that the law establishes the right of children and grandchildren of those who lost their nationality because of the exile to access the English nationality and noted that to facilitate the exercise of this right has been reinforced in those consulates in Latin America which provided more seekers, increasing human and material resources.
"As of March 31, 2011, a total of 321,623 applications have been approved 187,076 and 125,609 passports have been issued. A large majority of them, around 120,000, are countries in Latin America. With regard to the granting of English nationality to the voluntary members of the International Brigades, should be noted that of the 22 requests made, but one of them, which could not be resolved to a deceased petitioner, all were successfully resolved with the granting of the relevant nationality, he said.
' Children of War '
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is not reflected in the text of the law, the vice president also spoke of social protection to so-called' war children ', children who had to leave Spain during the Civil war or immediately after its conclusion. "The best estimates talk of 30,000 children evacuated during the war and another 70,000 victims of the exodus started in 1939. The historic debt with the English state 'war children' started resulted in the enactment of Law No. 3 / 2005 of March 18, by which they recognized an economic benefit, "he explained.
According to data provided by the year 2011 the amount of economic benefit amounted to EUR 6,989 which is deducted from those other pension income or benefits of different types. Today, he said, are eligible for this benefit residing in 34 countries worldwide. More beneficiary countries are Mexico, where there are 622; Argentina, 596; Chile, 236; Venezuela, 165, France 158, Russia 151, and Cuba, 128.
Documentary Centre of Historical Memory
He also mentioned the establishment of the Documentation Center of Historical Memory, based in Salamanca, whose function is to "collect, organize and retrieve all documents relating to historical period from the English Civil War and the Constitution of 1978 to facilitate access to funds from public and private archives. " To this end, he added, were included in the Documentation Center, in addition to Archive of the Civil War, other procurement funds from public and private entities.
As the General Archive of the English Civil War, said it is developing a database of all available information in manual files. Rubalcaba said that the manual file consists of approximately 3,500,000 records, of which 1,800,000 have been treated, that are available to any citizen or administration.
also indicated that different programs have been developed for the acquisition of collections of documents for the period 1936-1978. "I would highlight as an example the bottom of the Civil War the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Are about 300,000 documents for the first time have been transferred in the form of digital copy and have been incorporated into state funds, "he said.
He also referred to the actions developed by the Ministry of Culture addressed "to the development of databases related to the historical memory to allow the fingerprinting of those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and dictatorship ". "This work ordered all the information is scattered in various state archives, for which it has requested the relevant information and is a database that currently has more than 750,000 names and documentary references. We estimate that when completed will consist of a figure close to four million. "
added that the Ministry of the Presidency during these years has approved five calls for the grants to associations, foundations, unions, individuals and groups since 2010 also to universities to develop related projects recovery of historical memory and moral recognition of the victims. "Between 2006 and 2010 we have developed over twenty million devoted to this objective has been directed to 642 projects. "
The call of 2011 remains the same as the year 2010."
In 2008 the Government established the Office for Victims of the Civil War and Dictatorship in the Ministry of Justice, an office which has worked with associations and has handled 20,000 phone calls, emails and other close 350,000 visitors from as many citizens who wanted to receive information regarding the implementation of the Law of Historical Memory.
Web Portal
Rubalcaba He also mentioned the creation of a web portal of historical memory, developed in the Ministry of the Presidency. He explained that one of the biggest challenges in this case is the huge amount of data out there.
To facilitate access to this information, the Government has developed the portal of Historical Memory, "a portal that has worked essentially the Ministry of the Presidency under the personal drive of its owner, Ramón Jáuregui . The portal can be accessed, since last Thursday, to information on the law, parliamentary debates, all the files, the map of graves, to trace, benefits, grants and links with pages of the regions that relate to the whole affair. "It's a portal in which we have collected all the information available to the Administration for making it available to all citizens," he summarized.
Source: Chronicles of Emigration.
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