07/13/2020 - 10:58
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Former president Mauricio Macri traveled to Paraguay on Monday morning in his role as executive head of the FIFA Foundation, to hold a meeting with the former president of that country, Horacio Cartés, a leader linked to local football.
From the environment of the former president they detailed that Macri, who arrived at the San Fernando airport minutes after 10, had a lunch with Cartés on issues related to the FIFA Foundation, created in 2018 for charitable purposes and to promote "positive change" Through sport.
As a member of the Macri team related to Clarín , while sharing lunch with Cartés, Macri received an invitation from Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez to visit him at the presidential residence. Macri arrived there shortly before 4pm.
Macri's trip, as explained in his team, was made following the sanitary protocols of the two countries. For this reason, upon his return to Buenos Aires, Macri will quarantine his home .
The director of Migrations of Paraguay, Ángeles Arriola, clarified that her country is in Phase 3 of the quarantine, about to enter Phase 4, and there is "a presidential decree that restricts but does not prohibit the entry of foreigners . "
"Since she is going to make a 24-hour income, she has a protocol to comply with," the official explained in statements to Radio 10 . That protocol includes arriving in the country "with a negative Covid test, performed within 48 hours," he said.
"A Paraguayan health personnel receives it, checks it and accompanies him to the place where he must meet his schedule, with police and health support," Arriola explained.
The official said that these income exceptions work for "health, humanitarian, president, ex-president" issues, among other reasons.
Mauricio Macri leaves for Paraguay from the San Fernando Airport. (TN image)
"I was aware, it was communicated to me on Saturday," stressed the official, who added that they expected her arrival before noon and her departure in the afternoon or evening.
According to party sources, Macri and Cartés shared a lunch at the house of the former Paraguayan president, who was president of the Libertad Club, one of the most popular in that country.
When Macri assumed the presidency and until 2018, Cartés was president of Paraguay, and between the two they maintained a good bond and several meetings.
"With Cartés I have a good relationship, he sold me to (player Aldo) Bobadilla," the former Argentine president had said days before arriving at the Casa Rosada to chart his relationship with the Paraguayan, who emerged as a soccer manager in his country and then went into politics, just like Macri.
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