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In an intervention this Thursday night, Claudia López assured, after the death of the waiter Oswaldo Muñoz was known in an articulated Transmilenio bus, which adds to the list of murders in the city, that “there are some immigrants involved in criminality who are making our lives in squares”. And he added: “Whoever comes to earn a decent living, but whoever comes to commit a crime should be deported without contemplation.”
Immediately, those statements stirred the show in the city, already irritated by the constant confrontations between the capital’s mayor and the National Government derived from the management of situations such as the indigenous minga and the management of the coronavirus pandemic.
Opinions were divided and, as usual, social media erupted from opposite shores. Politicians, opinion-makers and even the very relatives of the victim of this new fact of insecurity in the city spoke out. A nephew of Muñoz disagreed with the mayor and said that justice would be done if those responsible paid jail time for their crime in Colombia.
But this Saturday the one that spoke was the magazine Semana, which, in a sort of editorial, admonished the mayor of Bogotá, whom, after recognizing that she is “an intelligent woman and an example of personal and professional improvement”, remember that he has had “several false starts”, and that “he used dangerous language again”, this time pointing to “criminals by their country of origin.”
“Bogotá deserves better leadership, not marked by personal egos and political calculations”, Reads the article published on the publication’s website, and signed by Semana.Com. “More empathy is needed and that all efforts are focused on finding solutions to the problems we face. They are many”.
The magazine also tells López that “no time for politicking, no staging“, Underlines that Colombia has been a country that” has always opened the doors to immigrants from all over the world “, and recalls that in difficult times”many Colombians have found refuge in other countries, and have not been immune to stigmatization”.
“The mayor should live up to her role. After a year of being elected, it is time for her to assume responsibilities and stop blaming others ”, reproaches the magazine.
In the same issue, the columnist Salud Hernández-Mora asks López “What else has to happen for […] realize that the insecurity in Bogotá is unbearable, that it got out of hand?“And he tells him that” do not come now to blame Migración Colombia for not deporting criminals, or Venezuelans, even if there are robbers who have come from the Chávez kingdom. “
“When it comes to pointing out the neighbor, we must admit that Claudia López is very skilled”Continues Hernández-Mora. “If covid-19 spreads, it throws its accusing finger at Duque and his economic openness. If poverty increases, the central government is responsible, nothing to do with the pandemic. And now it is Venezuelans who “are making our lives out of squares,” according to her. Only those unfair words were lacking to further stigmatize a population that suffers discrimination and xenophobia”.
By the way, this Friday the Xenophobia Barometer found that López’s statements triggered xenophobic conversations in networks. The digital platform identified an 83% growth in these expressions, in various areas of the country.
Even the president of the Bogotá Council, Carlos Fernando Galán, compared the mayor’s statements with those of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, because for him both demonstrations contain “xenophobic” phrases.
“It has no sustenance, it is generalizing and creating a figure that is going to have a lot of applause and populist support; as Trump did in the United States with Latinos saying they were ‘bad men’, criminals and rapists, to generate hatred towards a population that is seen as the main responsible for what is happening to us and washing their hands, “said Galán.
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