For her 6th cooperation trip since she became Queen, Letizia has landed in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, for a three day visit.
Her Majesty arrived in South America on the evening of Tuesday, 2 November 2021; she is travelling with the State Secretary for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela Rodríguez.
When the plane landed, Queen Letizia was welcomed at the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport by First Lady Silvana López, the Foreign Affairs Minister Euclides Acevedo and the Spanish Ambassador to Paraguay Carmen Castiella, among other authorities.
Like we have seen in many, if not all of her cooperation trips, the Queen was wearing a red vest, the uniform of workers of the Cooperación España program, which is tied to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s International Cooperation division.
Queen Letizia was then transported to the Presidential Palace, where she was welcomed by President Mario Adbo and had a short audience with him.
The trip, like all of her previous ones, will be focussed on women’s rights, education, access to vital resources (such as clean water), and empowering local entrepreneurs.
Her Majesty has previously travelled to Honduras and El Salvador in 2015, Senegal in 2017, Dominican Republic and Haiti in 2018, Mozambique in 2019 and Honduras again in 2020.
The Queen left Spain after an extra day off – like in most Catholic-majority countries, November 1st is a national holiday in Spain. And she may have also needed the extra day off, as on Sunday it was not only Halloween (which is not as big of a holiday in Europe as it is in the United States), but it was also Princess Leonor’s 16th birthday, which the family undoubtedly celebrated on a bittersweet note, as the Princess of Asturias was expected to fly back to Wales to resume school after the break.
