“I am the wrong Vélez”: a Spanish journalist has been receiving tweets with insults, complaints and greetings from Colombia for years because of his last name

Since last November 4, the Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Vélez is a trend on Twitter because of a video that went viral in the middle of the coverage of the US presidential elections, and that the communicator did for RCN News from Washington.

The comment that raised a tremendous controversy on the social network was the following:

“It would have to be a very great act of chivalry for Joe Biden to say: -man I don’t want a very great pain in this country and I will concede-, because on the side of Donald Trump he is going to take out all the legal battery to make this much slower and rise to the presidency of the United States if he considers that they have not treated him fairly “.

Luis Carlos Vélez, who was director of Noticias Caracol, CNN presenter and vice president of news at Telemundo, felt really overwhelmed by the amount of insults he received in a few hours, to the point that he published the full video of the transmission, and that is the next:

In addition, he published a video in which he recognized himself as a victim of bullying and spoke about the implications of these hate messages.

Some of her colleagues, like presenter Mabel Lara, They also suffered digital harassment for showing solidarity with Vélez.

What’s the point?

Well, due to that Colombian controversy, hundreds of netizens attacked the user @jcvelez, without realizing that his comments were reaching the wrong Vélez, whose at Twitter is very similar: @lcvelez

The wrong Velez is Juan Carlos Velez, a Spanish journalist whose biography on Twitter is not misleading: “News editor. One more in @MasDeUno. Before, correspondent in the United Kingdom for @OndaCero_es and @ A3Noticias ”.

Clearly, the journalist was one of the first to realize that Luis Carlos Vélez has been in the “eye of the hurricane” in recent days in Colombia, when he began to notice that they were mentioning him more than the account in the social network. So he trilled:

“Some Velez must be being TT in Colombia because they are putting the lost tweet on me … again!”, published the communicator this Sunday.

It has happened many times and for several years

Dozens of Internet users have responded to the journalist, expressing their apologies in the face of a situation that he himself takes with practicality and some humor, saying that He even had to make a template with a manufactured response to respond to the tweets, some of them loaded with insults, complaints and claims of which you have no idea.

The current episode with Luis Carlos Vélez, the Colombian journalist, He is just one of the many who has had to live on Twitter on account of his surname, very popular in Colombia.

In 2016, It was wrongly mentioned in one of the most crucial moments in Colombia, when the plebiscite for peace was being carried out. After the ‘NO’ victory at the polls, the Colombian Congressman Juan Carlos Vélez Uribe He confessed in the media that part of the electoral strategy had been for “people to go out to vote boar.” The statement earned him thousands of criticisms, and a good part of them went to give the profile of the Spanish Vélez.

At the time he wrote with some humor:

In June 2018, Another controversy made him create a kind of tutorial for Colombians distracted from Twitter, who put him in a rosary of mentions that were not for him :,

In the middle of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Spanish took the opportunity to joke when Colombia played their crucial match against England. “They have me very present, they write to me a lot, almost daily from there,” he said to support the National Team.

Even in 2019, a human rights defender mentioned him to reproach him for a statement that took him by surprise and that, of course, he never made. That is why with great patience he answered “Vélez wrong.”

Luis Carlos Vélez, the Colombian, defended himself and spoke of the bullying that he lived through on social networks

While the Spanish Juan Carlos Vélez laughed at the accusations and the accusations, Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Vélez has been very concerned about the reactions and what this can trigger in professionals who are constantly exposed to public opinion.

In the last hours, he wrote a question in his account to reflect on the digital harassment of which he was the real protagonist.

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