“Ramo de paleta” may sound weird, but it is just trade jargon, every Spanish bricklayer/mason knows for sure what it means :-))) It simply refers to the “bricklayer trade”. A “paleta” is the bricklayer´s trowel (una paleta), but also the bricklayer himself (un paleta), it is the colloquial term for “albañil” (un albañil = un paleta). When you use the expression “ramo de paleta”, you mean the bricklayer trade being the trowel the symbol that identifies all bricklayers.

Your sentence is particularly confusing, I agree with that, because there is a consonant missing (an “l”). It should read “ayudas del ramo de paleta” referring to the institutional or government aids to this specific sector.


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Todos los relacionados con el >b>ramo de paleta la albañilería y los acabados de construcción, sobre todo los oficios que se ocupan de la colocación de todo tipo de pavimentos discontinuos.