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The finalists, according to the organization, cited by El Tiempo, “demonstrated awareness of the long-term implications of the pandemic; its priority was not the economic opening and its main objective was not to return to normality ”.
The capital daily reports that the mayors shortlisted for the World Mayor’s Award and Honors come from some of the world’s largest cities, as well as small and medium-sized towns and cities.
Also in the competition for the award are the mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez; that of Guarulhos, in Brazil, Gustavo Henric Costa; and the mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Despite the good management that the entity that organizes the awards grants Mayor Claudia López, not everyone agrees with her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the journalist Carlos Antonio Vélez, who criticized the measures that the governor will apply. at Easter, to which he told that “he only wants to appear” ..
Claudia López’s alleged discrimination against Venezuelans
The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, apologized this Thursday for “stigmatizing” Venezuelans in the capital of Colombia, after denouncing that a “minority” of migrants disturb the security of the city.
“I take the opportunity to ask for excuses (…) When I point out some problems of insecurity, I do not do it to cause a controversy or to stigmatize anyone,” said the president during an informational event on her first year in office.
“What we want is to explain that we are facing a challenge, everyone, no matter where we come from (…) but recognizing the difficulties is not to generate discussions, or divisions, or stigmatization,” he added.
On Friday, López was the target of criticism for statements considered xenophobic, in which he pointed out that “a minority of deeply violent Venezuelan migrants” are “a huge factor of insecurity” in Bogotá.
The mayor demanded guarantees from the national government against the migrants, after the murder on Wednesday of a 24-year-old policeman in an exchange of gunfire with two Venezuelans disguised as delivery men, in a commercial area in the north of the city. One of the assailants also died.
“Everything is offered to Venezuelan migrants and what is offered to Colombians? What guarantees do we have that there is no unfair competition for their jobs, especially for humble people, that they do not take advantage of the government’s generosity of Colombia to attack Colombian citizens? ”, he said then.
The controversy took place at a time when the government of President Iván Duque is developing an ambitious plan to regularize almost one million Venezuelan migrants, which has earned it applause from the international community.
“It is not true that a Venezuelan is given more priority than a Colombian (…) On the contrary, those who are migrants (…) have it much more difficult,” he said this Thursday, collecting his words.
Colombia, which in the past saw millions of its citizens leave for countries like Venezuela due to the violence that still persists due to the internal conflict, has received more than 1.7 of the 5.4 million Venezuelans who emigrated since 2015, according to UN figures.
