Democrat and Republican US congressmen meet with Catalan president
American civil rights leader John Lewis among officials who talk to Quim Torra at Capitol, Washington DC
The Catalan president, Quim Torra, met with four US congressmen of both the Democrat and the Republican parties on Wednesday before ending his official trip to the United States.
In the US capital's Capitol, seat of the Congress, Torra held four meeting with representatives Paul Cook (Republican); Mario Diaz-Balart (Republican), with whom he already met once; John Garamendi (Democrat); and John Lewis (Democrat).
They talked about the current situation in Catalonia and Torra said all four showed a "great interest" to know what is going on in Catalonia.
Conversation with US civil rights leader
The Catalan president especially welcomed the talk with Lewis, a civil rights leader, famous for fighting racial segregation in America in the 1960s.
Lewis is the only surviving 'Big Six' leaders in favor of the African American people's civil rights, also including Martin Luther King.