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Declarations found and much controversy on social networks left an episode that has overshadowed the reconciliation act organized by the Bogotá Mayor’s Office, this Sunday, with the families of the victims of the acts of violence that took place in the capital between Thursday and Friday from last week.
Is about the image of the empty chair arranged in the atrium of the Plaza de Bolívar with the name of President Iván Duque, who was invited, but who, according to his spokesmen, did not appear because he had previously acquired commitments and that is why he sent government delegates.
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The Government’s communications adviser, Hassan Nassar, said this Monday, in an interview with W Radio, that it is not possible to “try to create an event and use the victims to politicize,” in addition that the President had already had contact in private with one of the victims.
Nassar’s reaction was joined by many others on social networks, such as that of the former mayoral candidate Miguel Uribe; that of the Vice Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, and, one of the strongest, that of the Peace Commissioner, Miguel Ceballos, who was present at the event on behalf of the President.
Ceballos spread that he felt “assaulted” in his good faith. He said that he spoke on Saturday night with the Secretary of the Government, Luis Ernesto Gómez, to explain that the President would not attend. Even so, the chair remained. What bothered him is that, despite the fact that he occupied the chair destined for Duque, he put another chair in which he put the name of Duque “so that it would appear as empty.”
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Ceballos attended the event along with the presidential advisor for Human Rights, Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez, who participated in an ecumenical ceremony that was also attended by the priest Francisco de Roux, president of the Truth Commission, and the mayor Claudia López.
Luis Ernesto Gómez, Secretary of Government of Bogotá, also answered Citytv on Monday, where he presented the balance of the weekend and responded to this episode. He said that the mayor expressed to the President the seriousness of what happened in the meeting they had on Friday.
There “he raised the urgent, compelling need for an act of forgiveness,” according to Gómez. “The absence was notorious”, said the Secretary of Government, and recalled that some victims said that they would have liked to have the presence of the President.
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Gomez also said, in an interview with the W, that “the President decided to delegate forgiveness and reconciliation” and that, beyond paper, “reconciliation and forgiveness cannot be built in absentia.”
Gómez insisted that the important thing was to talk about the acts of last week because of their “infinite gravity.”, and although he did not recognize if it was a premeditated act, he said that the mayor insisted to President Duque that reconciliation should have him.
Although the initial controversy pointed to criticism against President Duque for his absence, after knowing how this was enhanced, apparently in a premeditated way, the controversy turned towards the district Mayor’s Office, since the truth is that this act left in evidence , once again, the differences between the House of Nariño and the palace of Liévano, and left in the background the discussion about the claims of the victims of truth and justice about what happened.
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