Rural depopulation is one of the most important challenges faced by thousands of small Spanish towns. A deep-rooted problem in Castilla y León, where one of the most innovative proposals has emerged to prevent the streets from running out of people. Specifically, in Villafrechós (Valladolid) they seek to pull ancestors to convince one of the richest people in the world to invest in the town. A Jeff Bezos who and whom the mayor has already tried to seduce with the story of a certain Salvador Bezos, grandfather of the tycoon and born in the town of Valladolid in 1906.
In 2011, an already wealthy Jeff Bezos decided to travel to Spain to learn about his family’s origins. On his walk, the one born in New Mexico, he could not avoid passing through Villafrechós, a small territory of 406 inhabitants where his grandfather grew up and which is now seen on the list of empty Spain. It could be for a short time, because two years later, in 2013, an attraction plan began to be drawn up that with the ‘retirement’ of the founder of Amazon has gained more weight.
Villafrechós keeps the project a secret, intended for the primary sector, and which would have an investment of close to ten million
It was then, when Jeff’s stepfather (Miguel Ángel Bezos) received the Grand Cross of Alfonso X El Sabio at the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, that the mayor of Villafrechós began to study what could be the investment that would revitalize the town. A secret project but one that would entail around 10 million euros to create “a very ambitious project that will revitalize the municipality and the entire region of Tierra de Campos.”
“If you find out from the press, it wouldn’t be funny,” Miguel Ángel Gómez (PP) assured, expressing his desire to “transfer” the project in person. To do this, the mayor maintains contact with the Spanish consul in Seattle who is already preparing a meeting “when the pandemic allows it.”
The project, a millionaire for Villafrechós meticulous for the Bezos Foundation, would be based on the primary sector from which most of the region lives and in order to revitalize Valladolid agriculture and livestock. “If we’re lucky, fine; and if not, at least we’ve tried,” acknowledging that they already sent a letter to Bezos’s house with the program for the patron saint festivities, without any response.
How did the Bezoses get to Seattle?
A more than innovative way to end depopulation that is based on those roots of the now billionaire Bezos. It was the aforementioned grandfather Salvador who, in search of new opportunities, emigrated to Cuba in the first half of the 20th century. There he married and in Albuquerque his son Miguel Ángel was born, who ended up adopting little Jeff when he was four years old.
All as a result of falling in love and marrying Jacklin Gise, biological mother of the tycoon, who had given birth to what in the future would be the richest man on the planet at just 17 years old. Maintaining his stepfather’s last name and with it a good relationship between the two, as can be seen on social networks, Jeff was building an empire that he will now leave a little to one side and perhaps could help him focus on Villafrechós and the incipient project. of the.
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