Meliá, owned by the Escarrer family, has thirty hotels in partnership with Gaesa, the military arm of the Castro regime.

Omissions

• The exact number of Meliá hotels partnered with GAESA varies across sources: El País (30 May 2026) reports 33, while Hosteltur describes 'una treintena' (around thirty). The claim of exactly 30 is slightly below the figure reported by the most detailed source.
• The El País article was published on 30 May 2026, after the session date of 19 May 2026, so the MEP could not have cited it directly, though the data it describes predates the session.
• GAESA is more precisely described as the economic and business conglomerate of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), not the 'military arm' — that phrase conflates the commercial entity with the armed forces themselves.

Sources

• SecondaryEl País (English edition)Spanish chains run 62 hotels in Cuba — more than half of GAESA's hotel portfolio. Leading the list are Meliá, with 33 hotels, and Iberostar, with 18.
• SecondaryHostelturMeliá, con una treintena de hoteles en Cuba, asegura que no se replegará en la isla tras la crisis de suministros y de ocupación turística.