Chile’s Piñera arrived in Paraguay, last country of his regional tour

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Sebastián Piñera arrived Monday night (27) in the Paraguayan capital. On Tuesday, he will carry out a one-day official agenda that includes an extensive meeting with his Paraguayan counterpart, Mario Abdo Benítez.

Piñera landed at Asunción’s international airport from Uruguay as part of a regional tour that previously took him to Colombia.

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The president was received by the Paraguayan Foreign Minister, Euclides Acevedo, and other high authorities and left the airport without making any statements.

Piñera’s program for Tuesday begins with paying his respects at the Pantheon of Heroes, in the historic center of the capital, where the remains of Paraguay’s heroes are kept. He will then go to the Government Palace to meet with Abdo Benítez, followed by signing a joint declaration.

After other protocol acts, Piñera plans to visit the Expo Ganadera 2021, the most important livestock fair in the country, organized every year in the city of Mariano Roque Alonso, on the outskirts of Asunción, by the Rural Association of Paraguay.

Executives of this association, the country’s largest agricultural producers’ association, will hold a meeting with Piñera, whose country is the second-largest market for Paraguayan beef after Russia.