The situation that exists in Libya has caught dozens of Spanish workers who were in the country when riots broke out and now are virtually impossible to leave, especially because, as told ELMUNDO. is the owner of the company Tolder-one of the companies with a presence in the country, "one of the Spanish Embassy will help them." Tolder workers, Sacyr, Repsol, among others, and to 80 Spanish, remain trapped and without food in the airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where they await the Spanish government sent a plane to repatriate, but for now there is no expectation evacuation plan.
"Spanish Foreign Minister in Tripoli has come this morning to the airport and only pointed to a list their names. When I asked whether there are going to get them answered that there is no evacuation plan and has no order to that effect.'re Desperate "explained Fernando Saavedra, owner of the company Tolder.
To the despair and anguish over the violent situation prevailing in the country, we must add that these are Spanish 24 hours without eating, as the airport suffer shortages because they entered "masses and masses of people." "They have no food, no bottled water and the chancellor have been told that its function is not supply them with food," insists Saavedra.
In addition, their spirits are getting worse as the Spanish are watching the governments of Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Jordan have sent planes to repatriate its citizens, while in Spain there is no news. As he told Saavedra, "are waiting to catch any flight on which you can get but do not come to Spain, but there is none and they do not have any help from the embassy." Meanwhile, four other workers Sacyr Vallehermoso are trying to leave the country, but also are caught at the airport in Tripoli.
Explains the company, the last contact with them has been this morning, when I have phoned from a landline to inform them that they were well and were trying to catch a flight, something that has not been possible because they are not performing landing in Tripoli. These four workers represent 10% of the workforce of the company in Libya.
The other employees have left the country in recent days. They are also trying to leave Libya several workers from a multinational telephone, including a Spanish citizen. The evacuation would have taken place on Monday via Tunisia, but it was not possible to "overbooking." The company has sent a private plane to go to Rome, and from there make the repatriation of workers to their countries.
However, after traveling this morning to the airport in Tripoli, has been unable to board, so had to return to his residence in the Libyan capital, where they hope to "calm" to the evacuation can occur. On the other hand, the Calima Aviation company is waiting for enabling the Boeing 737 flying over the airspace of Libya to repatriate an unspecified number of Spanish, which, according to the latest data from AENA, could land in Barajas at 20.45 hours of Tuesday, Efe reported.
Calima Flight 101 was scheduled to land at Barajas at 23.45 hours on Monday and has suffered numerous delays. Airport sources have indicated that this flight has been chartered by the company Repsol to repatriate its workers, although the airline has refused to confirm this issue nor has it disclosed the number of passengers who fly on this plane with capacity for 130 people.
In addition to this flight Calima Aviation Company, is scheduled for Wednesday at 12.00 arrival at Barajas of Libyan Airlines scheduled flight from Tripoli. Among the Spanish caught in the country is also Raúl Martínez Pérez, a fellow in computer science at the Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), which is making its practices there.
According to this young man from the ICEX and the Department of scholarship "is acting properly is doing everything in its power." This is the only support I have and the Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Libyan Trade Office, which "we have received excellent customer." But criticism that the office "is abandoned" by the Embassy and Ambassador harshly critical of Spain in Libya, Luis Francisco Garcia Cerezo.
Since Monday afternoon, when the shelling started Gadhafi ordered protester against the population, Raul Martinez is living at home counselor. "We have not been offered asylum in the ambassador's residence," he explains. Share the house of counsel, at the express request of the latter, with a fellow trainee, the son of the director, an officer of the Embassy, his wife and son.
"The ambassador, as we have said, has spoken to the Foreign Ministry to convey that the situation in Libya is calm," he says wryly. It is not the first time that the Spanish abroad denounced the lack of support from the Executive. In the riots that ended the regime of Ben Ali in Tunisia, dozens of Spanish tourists spent days trapped in hotels and Cairo airport without any news of the Spanish Embassy, which sent no flight back home, but who went through the tour operators with which they were traveling.
A similar attitude to that which has occurred at the beginning of the uprising last week in Libya. A Spanish resident in Libya ELMUNDO explained. is that last Friday, with the increased tension in the country and suspension of mobile communications, his fellow Italian Embassy phoned to be informed, and the embassy urged them to leave the country immediately.
To the alarm awakened, decided to contact the Spanish Embassy, where he was informed that only move in Tripoli discouraged if not planned, and took note of their data in order to keep track of all the Spanish to communicate with them in an emergency or evacuation. 
"Spanish Foreign Minister in Tripoli has come this morning to the airport and only pointed to a list their names. When I asked whether there are going to get them answered that there is no evacuation plan and has no order to that effect.'re Desperate "explained Fernando Saavedra, owner of the company Tolder.
To the despair and anguish over the violent situation prevailing in the country, we must add that these are Spanish 24 hours without eating, as the airport suffer shortages because they entered "masses and masses of people." "They have no food, no bottled water and the chancellor have been told that its function is not supply them with food," insists Saavedra.
In addition, their spirits are getting worse as the Spanish are watching the governments of Turkey, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Jordan have sent planes to repatriate its citizens, while in Spain there is no news. As he told Saavedra, "are waiting to catch any flight on which you can get but do not come to Spain, but there is none and they do not have any help from the embassy." Meanwhile, four other workers Sacyr Vallehermoso are trying to leave the country, but also are caught at the airport in Tripoli.
Explains the company, the last contact with them has been this morning, when I have phoned from a landline to inform them that they were well and were trying to catch a flight, something that has not been possible because they are not performing landing in Tripoli. These four workers represent 10% of the workforce of the company in Libya.
The other employees have left the country in recent days. They are also trying to leave Libya several workers from a multinational telephone, including a Spanish citizen. The evacuation would have taken place on Monday via Tunisia, but it was not possible to "overbooking." The company has sent a private plane to go to Rome, and from there make the repatriation of workers to their countries.
However, after traveling this morning to the airport in Tripoli, has been unable to board, so had to return to his residence in the Libyan capital, where they hope to "calm" to the evacuation can occur. On the other hand, the Calima Aviation company is waiting for enabling the Boeing 737 flying over the airspace of Libya to repatriate an unspecified number of Spanish, which, according to the latest data from AENA, could land in Barajas at 20.45 hours of Tuesday, Efe reported.
Calima Flight 101 was scheduled to land at Barajas at 23.45 hours on Monday and has suffered numerous delays. Airport sources have indicated that this flight has been chartered by the company Repsol to repatriate its workers, although the airline has refused to confirm this issue nor has it disclosed the number of passengers who fly on this plane with capacity for 130 people.
In addition to this flight Calima Aviation Company, is scheduled for Wednesday at 12.00 arrival at Barajas of Libyan Airlines scheduled flight from Tripoli. Among the Spanish caught in the country is also Raúl Martínez Pérez, a fellow in computer science at the Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), which is making its practices there.
According to this young man from the ICEX and the Department of scholarship "is acting properly is doing everything in its power." This is the only support I have and the Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Libyan Trade Office, which "we have received excellent customer." But criticism that the office "is abandoned" by the Embassy and Ambassador harshly critical of Spain in Libya, Luis Francisco Garcia Cerezo.
Since Monday afternoon, when the shelling started Gadhafi ordered protester against the population, Raul Martinez is living at home counselor. "We have not been offered asylum in the ambassador's residence," he explains. Share the house of counsel, at the express request of the latter, with a fellow trainee, the son of the director, an officer of the Embassy, his wife and son.
"The ambassador, as we have said, has spoken to the Foreign Ministry to convey that the situation in Libya is calm," he says wryly. It is not the first time that the Spanish abroad denounced the lack of support from the Executive. In the riots that ended the regime of Ben Ali in Tunisia, dozens of Spanish tourists spent days trapped in hotels and Cairo airport without any news of the Spanish Embassy, which sent no flight back home, but who went through the tour operators with which they were traveling.
A similar attitude to that which has occurred at the beginning of the uprising last week in Libya. A Spanish resident in Libya ELMUNDO explained. is that last Friday, with the increased tension in the country and suspension of mobile communications, his fellow Italian Embassy phoned to be informed, and the embassy urged them to leave the country immediately.
To the alarm awakened, decided to contact the Spanish Embassy, where he was informed that only move in Tripoli discouraged if not planned, and took note of their data in order to keep track of all the Spanish to communicate with them in an emergency or evacuation.
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