The ex-president Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera he didn’t let hospitalization for observation for a spider bite stop him from participating in an exhibition about his grandfatherLuis Alberto de Herreraorganized in Buenos Aires.
The president’s father Luis Lacalle Pou He has been hospitalized since yesterday in the Mater Dei sanatorium in the Argentine capital after an infection caused by a spider bite that occurred during Easter in long hill.
Yesterday he participated together with the head of government of the city of Buenos Aires and presidential candidate, Rodriguez Larreta Schedule, of the inauguration of a bust of his grandfather in the Plaza Uruguay of that city and shortly after he felt unwell. The infection from her foot had spread to her leg.
With a good countenance and good humor, the 89-year-old former president participated from his room in the sanatorium via Zoom in the conference on Luis Alberto de Herrera and his influence on the Silver riverorganized by the Argentine Center for International Relations (CARI).
“I want to clarify that the spider is Uruguayan, eh, that there is no kind of international mystification,” he joked after saying that they are treating him with strong antibiotics.
In an hour of exposure, Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera, recalled the figure of his grandfather, leader of the National Party to which he and the current president also belong, and analyzed Uruguay’s historical relationship with its two neighbors, Argentina and Brazil.
The white politician stressed that the country managed to develop “despite its neighbors” and that there was always the “desire for independence and to be oblivious to what is happening around.”
Source: Ambito
