“Colombia is a homophobic country”: Juan Daniel Oviedo denounces having received attacks on social networks

Juan Daniel Oviedowho was in charge of the management of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Danish) and who was the first person to start working to aspire to Bogotá City Hallhad an interview with the famous journalists Martín de Francisco and Santiago Moure, where he underlined in a private conversation that he perceived the high rate of homophobia in the country.

The former manager of Dane in the presidential period of Iván Duque, indicated that there are no ideologies when it comes to being homophobicin addition to pointing out that they even questioned their professional performance due to their sexual inclination.

“Homophobia has no color. Colombia is a homophobic country, I see her as a citizen on a social network, which is Twitter, where she is marked a lot, and the subject that I am crazy comes up everywhere, who is going to vote for this crazy girl?”.

In the special interview of the show The Deadly TV Led by Martín de Francisco and Santiago Moure, the candidate for mayor of Bogotá talked about some things about the national government, starting with the controversial health reform led by Minister Carolina Corcho.

“I have a very strong professional reserve because I do not consider that we are going to destroy the health system as she proposes with the reform that was tabled yesterday. I really do not share this opinion of the health system that is mentioned (…) I know we need to improve the coverage of rural areas, improve the preventive quality of service, but it can be done with what is available.”.

Regarding the mandate of Gustavo Petro Oviedo said he perceived in the administration of the Head of State something improvisation: “We are in a period where until now we learn about the presidential character of Gustavo Petro, we have known in the past the presidential character of Álvaro Uribe Vélez for eight years while we have been here for six months. Which, in my opinion, have been a very controversial six months”.

Precisely, the former director of Dane has been repeatedly linked to the right and to Uribism, some sectors have even pointed out that Oviedo is the candidate of the leader of the Democratic Center, something that has been repeatedly denied by the candidate for mayor of Bogota. This was the case in the last interview carried out by the journalist Cesar Fuquen of the press team of GlobeLiveMedia colombiawhere Juan Daniel stressed the importance of decoupling politics from polarization.

“This is a perception that we clarify precisely in the media. I am not the Uribe candidate. Álvaro Uribe Vélez is not my boss. The Democratic Center is not my party. That’s why we’ve been homeless since February 7th. Right now we are going to Venecia Park and in the afternoon we are going to be in Bosa to collect signatures and tell the public that this is an independent project, that they want to solve the problems of the city, that he wants to manage the city and wants to distance himself from the political polarization in which it has been for 20 years”.

both in The Deadly TV as in the interview with GlobeLiveMedia Dane’s former manager referenced Hollman Morris’ controversial statement, which pointed to the mayoral candidate’s lack of “500 kilometers of black pudding”, in both media, Juan Daniel Oviedo underlined the classism in the words of Morris.

“It makes me sad because I’ve never exchanged a word other than participating in debates with Hollman Morris. So I don’t know how he can have knowledge or an enlightened opinion to say that I’m missing 500 kilometers of black pudding. I love pudding. We can look for evidence in my family and I eat it in many neighborhoods in Bogotá, I eat it outside the cityOviedo told journalist Cesar Fuquen for GlobeLiveMedia Colombia.