Viaje al Exterior

Paraguay, 2003

 

Asuncion
 
August 14
•    Arrival at “Silvio Pettirosi” international airport.
•    Press conference upon his arrival at the airport.
•    Meeting with Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, at the airport’s protocol lounge.
•    Official conversation with Nicanor Duarte, president elect of Paraguay, at the Presidential House.
•    Press conference after his visit to the Presidential House.
•    Press conference upon his arrival at the Sabe Center Hotel.
•    Meeting with the outgoing president, Luis Gonzalez Macchi.
 
August 15

•    Fidel attended the inauguration of the new Paraguayan President, Nicanor Duarte.
•    Meeting with deputies and senators of the parties Colorado, Union Nacional de Colorados Eticos, Patria Querida and Liberal Radical Autentico, represented in Congress, at the Sabe Center Hotel.
 
August 16

•    He laid a wreath on the Pantheon of the Heroes.  Meeting with the press.
•    Interview granted to journalists Mina Felixiangeli and Roberto Perez of Channels 4 and 9 respectively of the Paraguayan television at the Sabe Center Hotel.
•    Visit to Augusto Roa Bastos, a Cervantes Prize laureate in Literature, at his residence.
•    Speech delivered at a meeting in solidarity with Cuba, at the National Sports Council.