2024-01-09 15:36:13
The exchange of versions continues in the national government after the cancellation of the Pan American Games in Barranquilla, which were going to be held in 2027.
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In that sense, the former Minister of Sports, María Isabel Urrutia, who was in that portfolio between August 2022 and February 2023, stated that President Gustavo Petro asked her to obtain “international and national cooperation and businessmen to hold the Pan American Games.” .
However, in an interview with Noticentro Uno CM&, the former Olympic medalist stated that she and the president had doubts about holding the Pan American Games for economic and political reasons.
In fact, in a tweet written on July 28, 2022 (ten days before Petro took office), Urrutia stated that “the outgoing government assures that the next Pan American Games Barranquilla 2027 are still underway,” but that he considered that it should be “the administration “incoming whoever decides to confirm or cancel said games in Colombia.”
“The above, taking into account that the nation would have to contribute more than 5 million dollars and the games would not be held in our administration,” the designated Minister of Sports wrote at the time.
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Given this, questioned about those trills that were dusted off as a result of the cancellation of the games, the former minister explained to Blu Radio that “that Twitter is not mine, I never wrote it. I didn’t write it, I swear I didn’t write it. They may have been hacked. I did not do it. We did all the work,” although they appear on their official account on that social network.
Likewise, he stated that efforts were made to include the Pan American Games in the National Development Plan and resources were allocated in the 2023 budget.
María Isabel Urrutia had also indicated that in the meeting with the Duque Government the Pan American Games were not discussed, but quickly the former Secretary General of the Presidency, Víctor Muñoz, published in the Pan American Games and which is signed by the former minister.
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