Monday, October 19, 2009 Associated Press
Bogotá .- A provincial mayor vetoed a presentation scheduled for January 2010 of Calle 13, one of whom, Puerto Rico's Rene Perez or "Resident" recently exhibited a shirt with allusions to Uribe and the paramilitaries, it was reported today , Monday.
"We canceled the presentation of this group because they're disrespectful ... (to) sully the name of our country, too disrespectful to all Colombians and the first figure of the country, which President Alvaro Uribe," said Juan Manuel Llano, mayor of the city of Manizales, capital of the department of Caldas and about 165 miles southwest of Bogota.
Calle 13's presentation was scheduled for between 5 to 11 January, when their traditional place in Manizales cultural fairs each year.
These fairs will have at least 400 presentations and performances of different national and international artists at stores open as squares.
"I made the decision (to veto the group) because I am the mayor and I am who authorize the presentation of any public stage in any event is cultural, sports, I am self to make this decision and I took it," he said in telephone conversation.
"I do not know how many people would go to that concert Calle 13, the my contention is that they do not come to Manizales Manizales are not welcome, that decision is irreversible until now, "he said.
resident, who hosted the MTV Awards Latinos held last October 15 evening at The Los Angeles, wore at the beginning of the ceremony in a black shirt that read in white letters the words "Uribe military bases."
The message of the shirt, playing with the order in which they were written the words could be interpreted as a rejection of the alliance government in Bogota and Washington negotiated to U.S. troops using seven military bases in Colombia or the old accusations of some groups human rights under which Uribe maintained ties of some kind with paramilitaries. what the president has always denied.
One day after the ceremony in Los Angeles, Uribe issued a statement calling it "insulting" message displayed by "Resident" and declared himself "outraged".
On Saturday, the organization distributed in Bogota MTV a statement assuring that neither knew nor supported the decision to "Resident" to use the shirt.
"MTV was not involved, nor had any knowledge or resident supported the decision to use a shirt," said statement released to reporters in an email
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