Emilia vexler
07/16/2021 3:43 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/16/2021 3:43 PM
Patricio Da Milano is Argentine, but has
a dream job in the summer of Europe
.
Millionaires hire him to get on their yachts and take them from one point to another in the Balearic Islands.
Mallorca, Cabrera, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera.
He had traveled to Spain for another one of these glamorous contracts, and the dream ended four days ago.
His 77-year-old father, who was supposed to have overcome bilateral Covid pneumonia, re-entered intensive care at the San Isidro Hospital.
His painting is very serious.
Since then, Patricio has joined the line of Argentines stranded abroad.
But his case, so disruptive, is almost fluorescent on the list.
They do not allow him to enter Argentina
despite the fact that a pilot friend asked for official permission to go to look for him in Montevideo in his private plane.
The refusal came this Friday, when he
had already dispatched the suitcases in Madrid
to go to Uruguay.
Why is your case different?
In addition to the urgent reason that would merit his return and, according to Carla Vizzotti herself said in an interview with this newspaper, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could "consider" - and without counting the anecdotal, which is that it does not even enter the group of "the courts" on Twitter for having gone abroad on vacation or to get vaccinated, but for work--, Patricio managed to try to get to Argentina "in a particular way."
His plan was to arrive via Montevideo, where the plane he was supposed to take from Madrid will land at 7.30 on Saturday.
But the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), once again, while he was at the Barajas airport and, even with the suitcases already dispatched, sent an email to the private pilot to communicate that he rejected the flight.
"I am desperate. I did all the steps. I called Aerolineas Argentinas, wrote to WhatsApp. I did everything to buy a ticket to Argentina, whatever comes out, to be able to see my dad who is very serious.
He is about to go.
I could not and I contacted my friend. They will not let me even now, that I am not asking them to spend a peso on me. That I am vaccinated. That I have a negative PCR. And that I even have an
immune passport
, "says the 45-year-old sailor, to
Clarín
.
In the call the sounds of the Madrid airport are heard.
The scene is reinforced with a selfie with a chinstrap that he sends to this newspaper.
Behind the chinstrap - but with his breathing more ragged by anguish than by the mask - Pato continues to justify his right to return to this newspaper.
It begins with "I have residence in Europe but I live in Argentina", continues with "my daughter is there (over here)" and ends with the worst: "My old man is very sick. I need to see him." It also recognizes where it is located in the list. "I am lucky to have a friend like that, and who is a pilot, who loves my father so much, as to have the will to go looking for me without fucking anyone. It is useless when they do not let you enter your country despite that I am living this anguish ".
Patricio details that "the isolation in Argentina would undoubtedly fulfill."
And also that he could not "earn a euro", because he canceled the entire season of European work, packed his suitcases and traveled, without his partner, from Palma de Mallorca to Madrid.
You must board a flight at 22.55, Spanish time, to Uruguay.
He doesn't know whether to stay down and keep trying to buy a direct ticket to Buenos Aires.
You don't know which is faster.
"I only ask to return to see him. He is about to go," he repeats, with the Argentine passport and the ticket in hand.
At the end of this note, Da Milano was evaluating whether or not to get on that plane.
The three men in this story are sailors.
And friends for 40 years.
Patricio's father is more than known in the Argentine nautical environment, in addition to the world of rugby, where he played in the first Alumni.
It is Alejandro "El Mono" Da Milano, considered as the greatest connoisseur of the South Seas.
Before suffering the stroke that took him away from his passions, he took many scientists to Antarctica and circumvented all the challenging canals of Tierra del Fuego.
His son is now on an equally difficult path to reach him.
The pilot friend
Diego Paquariello has his air taxi company.
But, of course, he did not sell his services to his Patrick.
Among his fleet of planes, he had - intends - to
go find his friend for free on
the other side of the pond, on his personal plane.
The LV MBZ.
An Aerostar 600. He is the friend - in addition to being a navigator and an aero-entrepreneur - pilot in this story of stranding.
"
Attention to the fact that for the requested date the airport (in Argentina) exceeds the basic response capacity for the Covid procedures (the limit of up to 600 daily passengers) foreseen,
the flight cannot be authorized
."
That's what the ANAC email he received says.
"I have known him and his father for 40 years. With Patricio we sailed together as children. He asked me: 'Che, how do I go to Argentina to see my old man' and I, in my role as a pilot, said: "I ask for an authorization and I'm going to look for you in Uruguay." But the answer they give you is that there is no space at the San Fernando airport, "he told
Clarín
.
The procedure, as it officially appears, is "repatriation of an Argentine."
He describes the reason for the rejection as "a total fallacy."
Furthermore, since Patricio does not have a Uruguayan residence, he could only remain in transit at the Carrasco airport and never leave to, in the best of cases, wait in a Uruguayan hotel for an eventual entry permit.
"50 passengers arrive in San Fernando per day. And, in fact, I called by phone and told them (the ANAC) that there was no problem, that I was taking care of the cost and that I was going to Ezeiza. And they told me 'No way '. Argentines cannot enter Argentina. It is the only country that has this strange regulation. I, as a friend, comply with all the requirements to go and look for him. They won't let me. They won't let him see his father. " , close.
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