On June 27, 2016, the mayor’s office of the then president of Bucaramanga, Rodolfo Hernández, presented José Manuel Barrera Arias as the new manager of the Cleaning Company of the Santander capital (Emab).
And last weekend the Prosecutor’s Office announced that Barrera would reveal details of a garbage technification scandal that would affect the now presidential candidate.
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His challenge in 2016, like that of the managers of the last nine years, was to find an alternative to dispose of garbage given that the El Carrasco landfill had already completed its useful life.
It was precisely in his period that a proposal from the Vitalogic company was put on the table that sought to technify garbage: convert waste into energy.
To achieve this contract, it was necessary to sign a consulting contract in 2016 between the engineer Jorge Alarcón and Emab, a fact with which one of the largest corruption scandals that has marked the city would begin but that never materialized.
Rodolfo Hernández’s son would have signed a brokerage contract for more than 100 million dollars to grant this contract to the Vitalogic company.
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old friendship
José Manuel Barrera had held some public positions in entities of the Piedecuesta mayor’s office before becoming manager of Emab, precisely in this municipality, where Rodolfo Hernández’s mother hails from and where the now presidential candidate was a councilman, It was where the friendship of Barrera and Hernández would have started.
According to his profile on the social network Linkedin, he has a master’s degree in Administration from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga and works as a consultant.
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In 2018 he was suspended from his position for alleged irregularities in this contract.
After leaving Emab, he arrived at the Bucaramanga Sports Institute, an entity that also manages the city’s mayor’s office.
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