Overview

• Felipe VI landed Tuesday evening at Arequipa’s Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón airport ahead of the X Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española.
• Regional, police, and military authorities received the royal delegation and implemented a broad security operation in and around the airport.
• The king is scheduled to preside over the formal inauguration on Wednesday at 10:00 at the Teatro Municipal de Arequipa.
• Organizers expect him to attend a plenary homage to Mario Vargas Llosa later Wednesday, while evening appearances remain unconfirmed.
• The congress is organized by Instituto Cervantes, the RAE, ASALE, and Peru, bringing more than 260 international speakers and roughly 500 attendees after earlier postponements and a relocation tied to the pandemic and political crises.