Recently, the outgoing president, Iván Duquedid not authorize the exit of the sword of the liberator Simón Bolívar to the ceremony possession of President-elect of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.
From the presidential house it is sustained that this it was due to security reasonsbecause for this valuable object of Colombian history You would need some policies that protect you in different cases.
Although from the entourage and working group of the next president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, it is stated that all security measures were in place to guarantee the well-being of this object during the presidential handover ceremony.
But, according to Week, the sword if it would have an all-risk policy worth a billion pesos, which would be in force from 00:00 this Sunday, August 7, for 24 hours.
The policy contemplates material damage due to terrorism, fire, lightning, explosion, water damage and flooding. In addition to all kinds of natural phenomena, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and volcano disasters.
Everything was planned so that the sword would come out of the Narino Palace until the San Carlos Palacethere the sword would enter custody of the security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Then he would start the journey to the Simon Bolivar Squareat this point -where Petro will be in possession- the receipt would be in the hands of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá and the Presidency of the Republic.
In addition to security forces, the sword of Simón Bolívar throughout the route would be under the protection of conservation and restoration experts from the Ministry of Culture.
Although the measures were guaranteed, according to Gustavo Petro’s team, he stated that what happened was an act of “bad people.”
Apparently, it would not be the first time that there have been problems between the outgoing government and the work team for the inauguration event by the incoming government of Gustavo Petro.
For example, the Petro a Semana team explains that a breakfast that was intended to be held at the Foreign Ministry was hindered three times, since the decoration of the site and the installation of the implements to carry it out were not allowed.
Another thing that would show that the junction was not at all harmonious would be the meeting between María Juliana Ruiz, wife of Iván Duque, and Verónica Alcocer, wife of Gustavo Petro, since the former did not make the formal tour of the Casa de Nariño for the first lady incoming.
In the 1970s, the M-19 learned that the Tupamaros (a Uruguayan guerrilla) had stolen the flag of the 33 Orientales, protagonists of Uruguay’s declaration of independence, so the idea of stealing a symbolic element arose. of colonialist liberation in Colombia: The sword of the liberator Simón Bolívar.
On January 17, 1974 -at night- the theft of Simón Bolívar’s sword was orchestrated in the Quinta de Bolívar, there the guerrillas left several pamphlets that said: “Bolívar, your sword returns to the fight”.
The sword was returned by the then ex-commander of the M-19, the demobilized Antonio Navarro Wolff, on January 31, 1991, in a ceremony at the Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá during the government of César Gaviria.
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