In a letter, 133 cultural leaders, citizens and politicians from Medellin expressed their disagreement with the mayor of that city, Daniel Quintero. “Medellin deserves another mayor”, is the title of the letter, in which the signatories say that the local president has
“disappointed”.
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“Those of us who sign these notes join the concerns of many
people because of what is happening today with the mayor and the mayor’s office of Medellin, which
can be summed up in two facts: the loss of confidence in the mayor’s office and its mayor, and the
loss of spaces for conversation and collective construction,” it reads.
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Among the criticisms of the president, they point out that Quintero “destroys confidence in the public, by governing with lies and with the worst of politics: the negotiation of positions and contracts for the benefit of private sectors close to the darkest political clans of the city. and the country.”
In addition, they assure that the “recent transformation process in Medellin” has been ignored and they blame it for ignoring the work that different sectors of society have done together. “In the worst years of our violence, all those sectors were able to sit down together, based on our differences, to build common paths,” they explain.
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Daniel Quintero, Mayor of Medellin
Medellin’s town hall
The signatories also point out that Quintero is not “progressive” or “independent.” They affirm that he had the opportunity to “go down in the history of Medellin as a good mayor” for having obtained the highest vote in the history there and for the possibility – already wasted, they say – of “continuing and improving the main programs and projects that Medellín has managed to achieve because it has a solid institutional framework”.
Another of the points that they reject is the “political management” of: Public Companies of Medellin, the Good Start program, INDER, Metroparks and the Botanical Garden. Additionally, they criticize him for “confronting private companies (…) by classifying them as mafia” in order, as they say, “to open space for some of these companies to be bought by foreign capital.”
Added to the above are criticisms of the management of garbage collection and the reduction of the budget of the Ministry of Culture.
Finally, those who signed the letter conclude that in the city “the deterioration in the quality of life is evident, further aggravated by the pandemic. But the path chosen by Quintero does not lead us to assume, confront or resolve these problems and needs. Quite the opposite: their way of governing puts us at high risk as a city and as a society”.
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You can read the full letter below:
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