Lula receives the Princes like a old friends
MARIÁNGEL ALCÁZAR - 23/02/2005
BRASILIA
Special supper in the Farm of the Torto, calls to account of the president of Brazil. The prince of Asturias in front of another Prince of Asturias, because this way it is possible also to be denominated to Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, that the month of October of the 2003 received in Oviedo, of hands of Don Felipe, the prize of the International Cooperation that takes the name of the heir of Trone.
That was a special edition, since between the journalists credited to the traditional delivery of prizes was Asturian journalist Letizia Ortiz, who only one week later would become the official fiance'e of prince Felipe. The then editor of the TVE would confess later that between the awarded of that edition she was impressed off the Brazilian president, ex- union leader, who a year before had reached the highest magistrature of his country.
Yesterday, fifteen months later, Lula and his wife, Leticia Da Silva, welcome to the princes of Asturias in his residence of the Farm of the Torto. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia arrived at Brasilia on the 5 from afternoon (four hours more in Spain) after a flight of eleven hours that transferred them from Madrid to the political capital of Brazil. From cold winter to the heat, so that the shelter and the scarf that the Princes shone when embarking in the official airplane in which they crossed the Atlantic disappeared when arriving at Brasilia, where the temperatures clear the 30 degrees. In the airport they received the Spanish ambassador, Ricardo Peidró, and stops to them positions of the Ministry of Outer Subjects Brazilian.
At 8 of afternoon (midnight in Spain), the Princes were received by Lula and Leticia Da Silva, in their residence. A gesture of the Brazilian president to the princes of Asturias, to those who, besides to have to them prepared for today a Welcome at the highest level, he wanted to distinguish last night with a treatment of friends, fruit of a personal relation and institutional cradle in the knowledge and the mutual esteem.
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