Obama to meet Macri, pay tribute to dictatorship missing people and travel to Bariloche

US President Barack Obama will visit Argentina with a hectic schedule of two days, 23 and 24 of March, including a meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce in Argentina a «bilateral meeting» with his Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri, and will travel to Rio Negro city of San Carlos de Bariloche.

The Obama’s visit will be the first by a US president since 2005′ George W. Bush, when he was 36 hours in Mar del Plata to defend his free trade initiative for the Americas (FTAA).

Sources of the Casa Rosada indicated DyN that the US president will attend a meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham Argentina) on the morning of Wednesday, March 23, at La Rural, so his arrival in the country will occur at midnight on Tuesday 22.

According to the agenda of the US president, around 11 it is expected to place a wreath at the monument of General Jose de San Martin, located in San Martin Square, among Mauricio Macri. From there, they will go to Casa Rosada.

At 11.30 the two leaders will hold a «bilateral meeting» in Eva Peron Hall of the Government House, and then they will gave a press conference that could be developed in the White Hall or at the Bicentennial Museum.

In the afternoon, Obama will lead an «informal meeting» with young entrepreneurs in Argentina in the Usina Art Theatre in La Boca, where he will probably gave a speech. At the end of the day, between 20 and 21, Macri will give an official dinner to the US President at Kirchner Cultural Centre (CCK), where once worked the Mail Palace.

Obama will spend his first night on Argentine soil in the Bosch palace, owned by the US embassy, which has already received years ago to three US presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1936), Dwight Eisenhower (1960), and George HW Bush (1994). In his second and last day in the country, the US president will lead a tribute to the victims of the last military dictatorship in the Memory Park, but for the moment remains the confirmation on who will accompany him.

At 11, Obama will leave for San Carlos de Bariloche, to sign agency agreements between Invap and NASA, and according to reports will be staying with his entourage at the classic Hotel Llao Llao, which is closed to the public.

In the afternoon, the US president would return to the US, so he won’t spend the night in Bariloche, as it was initially planned.