MEXICO: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES ARRIVES IN VERACRUZ TO CONTINUE HIS 5-DAY LATIN AMERICAN TOUR

Record ID: 223965

  • Title: MEXICO: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES ARRIVES IN VERACRUZ TO CONTINUE HIS 5-DAY LATIN AMERICAN TOUR
  • Date: 6th March 2002
  • Summary: (W1) VERACRUZ, MEXICO (MARCH 06, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GENERAL VIEW OF PORT OF VERACRUZ 0.05 2. MV: PEOPLE WALKING BY WATERFRONT 0.09 3. SV: MUSICIANS PLAYING 0.15 4. SV: PEOPLE WALKING BY WATERFRONT 0.19 5. SV: MUSICIANS PLAYING 0.24 6. SCU: MEMBERS OF MILITARY AT WELCOMING CEREMONY 0.29 7. LV; STEAM TRAIN ARRIVING 0.33 8. MV: MEMBERS OF MILITARY AT WELCOMING CEREMONY 0.36 9. MV: STEAM TRAIN ARRIVING 0.40 10. CU: BRITISH FLAG 0.43 11. SV: BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES WALKINOUTPUTG WITH VERACRUZ GOVERNOR, MIGUEL ALEMAN 0.48 12. SV: MEMBERS OF MILITARY AT WELCOMING CEREMONY 0.51 13. SV: PRINCE CHARLES WALKING 0.56 14. VARIOUS OF PRINCE CHARLES AT WELCOMING CEREMONY (3 SHOTS) 1.05 15. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) GOVERNOR OF VERACRUZ, MIGUEL ALEMAN, SAYING: "The port of Veracruz was the first meting place between Mexico and Europe over 500 years ago." 1.14 16. SCU: PRINCE CHARLES LISTENING 1.19 17. WS: ATTENDEES APPLAUDING 1.22 18. SLV: SAILORS ON TUG BOAT 1.26 19. WIDE OF TUG BOAT AT PORT 1.32 20. MV: PRINCE CHARLES AT RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY 1.43 21. SV: FAN HOLDING SIGN READING "I LOVE HARRY" 1.48 22. VARIOUS OF PRINCE CHARLES AT MILITARY PARADE (3 SHOTS) 2.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: VERACRUZ, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Reuters ID: LVA1OY2KEOOGQJLNLS3MA7Q9WUJ2
  • Story Text: Britain's Prince Charles has enjoyed a ride on a
    steam train, taken a boat trip aboard a tug and strolled along
    a promenade in the Gulf of Mexico port of Veracruz.


    Charles, who arrived to Veracruz on Wednesday (March
    6) after a two-day trip to Brazil, is making his first visit
    to Mexico since he came in 1993 with the late Princess Diana.

    Belching black smoke, a steam train carrying the heir to
    the British throne arrived at Veracruz punctually, bringing
    the honorary guest for centenary celebrations of the port's
    construction.

    After opening ceremonies, Charles jumped on board a tug
    for a jaunt around the port before unveiling a statue honoring
    its builders, who were led by British engineer Wheatman
    Pearson, later the first Lord Cowdray.

    Charles, wearing a dark navy-blue suit and a light blue
    tie with a zig-zag pattern, waved to the large crowd gathered
    to greet him.

    The prince arrived in Mexico on Wednesday for a three-day
    trip that will include a visit with children who live and work
    on the streets.

    Later on Wednesday, Charles will fly by helicopter to the
    coffee-growing town of Xalapa for a private viewing of an
    anthropological museum, home to 25,000 pieces including
    several colossal stone heads, known as Olmec heads.

    On Thursday (March 07), Charles is expected to head for
    Puebla, east of the capital, to tour the British-backed Juconi
    day center for street children, which in 12 years has helped
    more than 1,000 boys and girls leave the streets and return to
    school and their families.

    The prince later on Thursday will tour downtown Mexico
    City with billionaire industrialist Carlos Slim, who is behind
    a major project to revive a rundown sector of the city center
    that is home to the National Palace, a cathedral and hundreds
    of colonial buildings.

    On Friday (March 08), Charles is scheduled to visit a
    butterfly sanctuary in the state of Michoacan, west of Mexico
    City. Hundreds of millions of butterflies migrate each year
    from Canada to the Monarch Butterfly Reserve, but the
    population was recently devastated by a freak cold snap.
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