Newspaper El Mundo De Espana Outrages Colombians

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

After Pope Francis' visit to Colombia, a wave of outrage was generated against an article published in the renowned Spanish newspaper El Mundo, since for many the headline "Francisco, in the homeland of drug traffickers" is quite degrading.

As reported by the Colombian newspaper El Tiemp o, the controversial report would have been published after the pope recently made a stopover in the city of Medellín, which in the 1980s and 1990s experienced a period of extreme violence due to drug trafficking.

It was the same mayor of the capital of the department of Antioquia, Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga, who made an emphatic criticism of the way the Iberian newspaper titled his report on its online site.

Help me share it. My response as a citizen and mayor of Medellín to the newspaper El Mundo of Spain by its insulting headline 'Francisco, in the homeland of the drug traffickers',”the leader published through his Facebook page.

"Thousands of people read that article and surely many more read only the headline: thanks to those words they will continue to think of Colombia as a country that is no longer", concludes the message.

Immediately, users of the social network also began to show their outrage at the article. Gutiérrez Zuluaga's message has been shared on more than 30,000 occasions and the messages of disapproval were immediate.

“To foolish words deaf ears. Thank God those times of violence are over. I am proud of my department, Antioquia, proud of my beautiful city, Medellín,”said Beatriz Elena Ramírez Marín, in a message she left on Facebook.

Medellín and Colombia, a wonderful city and country with friendly, sweet and hopeful people, I am proud to live here and I am happy to be Colombian … It is difficult to change an image and a country that continues to be prey to injustices and where most of our leaders steal what belongs to the people, but I am convinced that those of us who love this country will make a difference,”added user Sandra Milena Gómez Velásquez.