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Evan Fels, a 32-year-old Mexican-German and automotive engineer, and Angie Betancur, a 30-year-old Colombian, They met in 2015 in Medellín when Fels arrived in the country to visit a friend.
On that trip he unexpectedly found love. Evan and Angie started a relationship in which every two months they saw each other in Germany or Colombia for periods of two or three months.
The last time they met was in January of this year when Evan arrived in Medellín. His plan was for Angie to travel to Europe in March to get married in Denmark, but the coronavirus pandemic arrived.
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“When I left Colombia at the end of January, we found out that she was pregnant,” Fels tells EL TIEMPO.
Evan was unable to accompany Angie during her pregnancy and also at the birth of her daughter in early September. “She had to go through the entire pregnancy alone and I missed everything,” she says, adding that she is “very sad and it hurts a lot because I would have liked to have the newborn baby in my arms.”
This father has met his daughter through video calls he makes every day with his partner.
Given the restrictions that exist for commercial international flights between Colombia and Europe The parents have not been able to register the little girl whom they will call Hanna Imelda, like the German’s grandmothers.
Fels has had his flight canceled six times, the last time was on October 8 and it was rescheduled for October 15, however he believes that it will also be canceled. In the last two reprogramming, the PCR test was carried out, which have an approximate value of 200 euros each.
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Given this, he asks the Colombian and German authorities to “think about the families that are separated. The Government has to see that destroying families by trying to fix other things is not good“, he sentenced.
Other couples longing for a reunionMelanie Beverley-Hughes and Cristian Sánchez
Melanie Beverley-Hughes and Cristian Sánchez.
Melanie Beverley-Hughes lives in the United Kingdom and Cristian Sánchez in Ibagué, Colombia. They met in Colombia, they have been dating for five years; They got engaged two ago and hoped to start their married life in Europe in May of this year. However, those plans were truncated as a result of the pandemic and have not been seen for eight months.
“It is not just not seeing each other but pausing our lives,” says the young woman, who also asked the Colombian authorities for clarity to know when there will be flights from Europe to Colombia. For this reason, he bought a flight from the United Kingdom to Paris and another from there to Mexico and then take a flight to Colombia. Expect to arrive on October 9.
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Due to this situation, the British decided to join the global campaign ‘Love is not tourism’ (love is not tourism, in Spanish) and create that page in social networks with cases of people who have Colombian partners.
Worldwide, this movement managed to get ten countries to recognize as a right for people in a romantic relationship to visit each other. The countries are Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Germany and France.
Johanna Manchola and Leo
Johanna Manchola, a Bogota native who lives in Medellín, married Leo, from Scotland, in the United Kingdom, in October 2019. After that, they went to the European country and there Johanna stayed until January and then returned to her native country.
The plan was for him to go to Colombia in April while they waited for her new wife visa to come out, but this did not happen.
“The consulates closed and everything stopped. Until recently I was able to present myself to the embassy and they warned me that it could take longer than normal, which is three months,” says the young woman.
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Her husband’s flight has been canceled three times; in June, in September and in October. However, he does not have the resources to take several flights, as other people have done and “it would not help either because of the restriction of taking the test before 96 hours.”
Marco García and Sandra Ducuara
Marco García and Sandra Ducuara.
Marco García and Sandra Ducuara met 18 months ago in Bogotá, when the Spaniard arrived in the national territory for labor matters.
They fell in love with “a crush” and the plans for a marital union began, but Marco had to return to his country.
“We decided that she would come to Spain for a time, for a month and a half and we defined how we were going to live, the child’s school, and so on.” So Sandra arrived in the European country on January 31, 2020 and stayed until March 15.
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They expected that a month and a half later she would return to Spain and stay there with her eight-year-old son, but nothing went as expected: when she left for Spain she had rented her apartment because she would only be in Colombia for a month and a half, so came to a sister’s house. “He sleeps on a sofa with the child,” says García. They closed borders and there she still lives with her sister, she does not have a job and she feels depressed at times.
Despite having their flights canceled five times, they hope to get married on December 17 in Spain. “We ask governments to be a little more humane with couples to show that they are together and it is serious.” “It kills me, this is not a whim, it is a vital necessity, because our life is as if it were standing still,” the Spaniard concluded.
LUISA MERCADO
POLITICAL WRITING
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