Princess Máxima Visits Argentina: December 4-7, 2005

[pollyemma]

It's going to be a great homecoming....

Looks like Mr. Nieboer has start his coverage. He photographer Maxima's Parents' House in Buenos Aires

(photos from seegerpress, dec 2, 2005)

thanks for the photos! is this whole building their house or do they have an apartment in it?
do they have other houses as well?

 

[purple_platinum]

thanks for the photos! is this whole building their house or do they have an apartment in it?
do they have other houses as well?

i think only an apartment, the caption only says "dwelling" so it doesn't tell much.
but, is this the same apartment when they showed when Maxima wed WA, and the tv showed her parents watching at inside an apartment?

 

[saphills]

yes, they are apartments, you could own a whole story or a half story (we call "piso" or "semipiso", if the apartments are big.
In Buenos Aires, the city, most people live in apartments like that.

 

[Victoriys]

She is in Jujuy now!

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12/04/um/m-01101867.htm

http://www.infobae.com/notas/nota.php?Idx=226394&IdxSeccion=100439

 

[carlota]

summary of the article that victorys posted: i thought it would be interesting as it has the schedule she will follow.

CLARIN ARTICLE: princess maxima arrived to jujuy this afternoon at 16.45 and she was received by miguel rioja, the ministry of economy of the region, and about 300 people, who the princess talked to moving over the protocol.
after the reception at the airport, she went to maimara, in the quebrada de humahuaca, to meet the leaders of the Cooperativa Agropecuaria Quebrada y Valle (Cauqueva). there, she will also visit the 'chacra' (farming house) of one of the integrants of the comunity to see how they work.
the same day, she will go to purmamarca, where she will spend the night with a commitive of 11 people that represent the civil staff of the dutch embassy and representatives of leaders of dutch economy and banks.
on monday the princess will meet representatives of the mundial bank of women and will have lunch with the governor of jujuy.
princess maxima will also participate in a meeting in buenos aires when the ONG Planet Finance will be officially presented, and whose main representant in argentina is Alfonso Prat-Gay, ex titular of the central bank of argentina (Banco Central argentino) who was also maxima's teacher in the catholic university of buenos aires, universidad catolica de buenos aires.

 

[Princess Maxima]

Oh my god!
She's finally here!!!

Does anubody knows her schedule in Buenos Aires?

 

[purple_platinum]

Photo of Princess Maxima in Jujuy from infobae :

 

[purple_platinum]

posted by Lotte from BRMB :

A rough translation of a Diario Hoy article:

Princess Máxima congratulated Argentinean potato producers, members of a cooperative.


The Princess arrived on Sunday at 16.45 to the capital city of Jujuy province, where she was welcomed by the Minister of Economy, Miguel Rioja, and around 300 locals, mostly women and children. She then travelled to Maimará (3,000 inhabitants) where she was received by Javier Rodríguez, CauQueVa cooperative's coordinator, Edmundo Chuychuy, its president, and around 200 people at the town's old rail station. Also took part in this meeting Máxima's personal secretary, Yvette Van Eechoud and representatives of three banks: Marilou van Goldstein (Triodos Bank), Diederik Laman Trip (ING Bank) and Arnold Kuijpers (RaboBank).


Máxima asked technical questions related to microcredit and expressed interest in production levels, slowness, impact of credit in production and interest rates. During the meeting, the Princess acted as an interpreter of Dutch and English to the bankers accompanying her. They were offered tea and biscuits.


When, upon leaving, she was offered a basket with many varieties of Andean potatoes, which are cultivaded in very high altitudes with low humidity, she asked with a smile for recipes.


She further went to San Pedrito to meet with the cooperative's credit committee at the home of Delia Silvera, where she was welcomed by locals playing typical instruments. Upon arriving at the dwelling, the Princess passed by a lettuce field and warned the photographers "not to step on the plantation." Silvera offered her a leather belt and a small flower bouquet.


Máxima again asked how producers get access to credit. Many of them are illiterate and unable to fill out a credit form. She also asked them what their wishes are and they asnwered they need adapted tools in order to have better products and export them. When the Princess asked whether they would like to have a savings bank they said "yes", but also expressed their fears. They added that they don't think about their own future, but about that of their children and grandchildren.


The princess waved very warmly to locals and let herself be photographed with them everywhere she went. However, she hasn't had contact yet with the 20 Argentinean and 12 Dutch journalits that follow her.

 

[purple_platinum]

More of Maxima in Jujuy (courtesy of ANP)

 

[Beate]

I love those pics..Very touching..One can see how much the people appreciate Maxima and how happy she is to be among them..

 

[purple_platinum]

Polfoto 04-12-2005 Argentine-born Princess Mxima of the Netherlands is welcomed by people in Maimara, Jujuy, Argentina, some 1,400 kilometers northwest of Buenos Aires, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. The Princess arrived to Argentina in a four-day trip as UN advisor for Microcredit.

 

[purple_platinum]

more from ANP :

 

[Dennism]

A great project that Maxima is promoting. Microcredit is very important for the futures of many people around the world especially women in poorer countries. Having local access to fundamental business instituations and practices at microlevel is most excellent and vital for the encouraging of businesses in many countries of the world. It will help to improve the lives of many people who are in at the lower end of the economic scale. She looks great and like Beate said, you can see how much they appreciate her coming. Their own Argentine princess. Maxima, brava!

 

[Princess Maxima]

Just saw it on the news and Máxima looks sooooooo happy!
She was up to cry whrn she heard some musicians

 

[purple_platinum]

more from seegerpress :

 

[purple_platinum]

some more from seegerpress

 

[purple_platinum]

last ones from seegerpress

 

[Little_star]

Wow! Maxima looks like she is aving a wonderful trip, she is just glowing, the outfit is fantastic and seems genuinely happy.

 

[purple_platinum]

a couple more from ANP

 

[Alisa]

A great project that Maxima is promoting. Microcredit is very important for the futures of many people around the world especially women in poorer countries. Having local access to fundamental business instituations and practices at microlevel is most excellent and vital for the encouraging of businesses in many countries of the world. It will help to improve the lives of many people who are in at the lower end of the economic scale. She looks great and like Beate said, you can see how much they appreciate her coming. Their own Argentine princess. Maxima, brava!

I agree with you very much. I also think it was great that she also acted as an interpreter for the Dutch delegation. Talk about putting all her skills to good use! She's doing a great job imo.

 

[fanletizia]

More images from colourpress

 

[fanletizia]

A girl put in hardships to the safekeeping of Maxima of Holland.

The small one only wanted "to see a princess".

....
When Maxima descended from the airplane, a girl, of between 6 and 8 years, it crossed the barriers ready by the operative police officer watched over the Head of the Police Jujeña, the greater commissioner, Néstor Caffagi, she only it that it wanted was to see a princess.

The imagined thing by the small one became reality when, defying the security bands, at few meters of the perrons of the airplane, watched face to face, moments at which the girl and all the guards were paralyzed.

The princess had the waved, blond hair, dressed a shirt with smooth yellows and trousers color cinnamon coffee, kissed to the small one before the applause of hundreds of neighbors and left to Maimará.

http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/vernotae.asp?id_nota=138705

 

[misshelen]

Argentine-born Princess Maxima of the Netherlands shake hands with wellwishers as she arrives to talk with small producers in Perico, Jujuy, Argentina, some 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. The Princess arrived in Argentina for a four-day trip as UN advisor for microcredit policies. (AP Photo/Julio Pantoja)

 

[misshelen]

More pictures from yesterday without watermarks from AP/Reuters

 

[Emily]

A great project that Maxima is promoting. Microcredit is very important for the futures of many people around the world especially women in poorer countries. Having local access to fundamental business instituations and practices at microlevel is most excellent and vital for the encouraging of businesses in many countries of the world. It will help to improve the lives of many people who are in at the lower end of the economic scale. She looks great and like Beate said, you can see how much they appreciate her coming. Their own Argentine princess. Maxima, brava!

You express my thoughts, exactly, Dennism! What a girl!

 

[purple_platinum]

Polfoto 05-12-2005 Argentine-born Princess Maxima of the Netherlands talk with small producers in Perico, Jujuy, Argentina, some 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. The Princess arrived in Argentina for a four-day trip as UN advisor for microcredit policies.

 

[The Watcher]

ANP pictures

 

[Dennism]

Thank you for the photos. That's cool, Alisa and Emily. Glad you agree.

"I also think it was great that she also acted as an interpreter for the Dutch delegation."

But here is something else. No offense to the interpreters of the world, but often that job is given to someone who, while important, may not get the credit or the glamour or whatever that the people they are interpreting for do. They are often underappreciated. So that a princess doing this is even more credit to her. Using her all of skills indeed. Brava to Maxima! She is glowing too and they love having her there.

"A girl put in hardships to the safekeeping of Maxima of Holland"

That girl will remember meeting the princess for the rest of her life.

 

[ap3]

Great outfits!

 

[Hannelore]

She's at her most beautiful here. At home and doing something she knows a lot about. In Holland she's OK as well, but never as great as when she's in Latin America IMO.

Brightly colored outfits look great on her.