Though the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrosaid he wanted to reduce government spending, hired a “presidential choreographer” for 28 million Colombian pesos per month (about $6,000) to carry out activities that promote the physical and mental health of the personnel of the Palacio de Nariño, the headquarters of the executive in Bogotá.
According to the contract, the dancer who claimed to have been “cured” of homosexuality was hired for four months to organize “mental and physical health activities that contribute to improving the work environment in the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic.”
According to the local newspaper Timethe contract for the provision of services will be for $7 million monthly Until december 31. Facing criticism, the government said he was hired “to lead gym and wellness activities“.
Who is Adolfo Martinez Carrillo
Is about Adolfo Martínez Carrillo, better known in the Colombian artistic world as “Nerú”. He is an Afro-descendant choreographer born in Cartagena who became famous for his time on Colombian television.
There was a lot of talk about him recently after he claimed that left behind hislife of homosexuality” thanks to the fact that one day he knelt down to implore God to “heal” him.
“I was a homosexual boy at that time and I lived in a world of lust. I lived bitter things in my homosexual life, but I always felt hope that one day I could get out of that life because deep down I felt that I was doing wrong for myself and for society,” said Nerú.
“Bring the Holy Spirit to my house and use his power to make me understand that God is there with me. Obviously in that experience the enemy (Devil) also arrives and begins to move all the things in my houseto the point that I thought it was an earthquake,” he said.
Nerú, between God and the Devil
Nerú said that the Devil himself dragged him through the house but that “God was there to welcome me and give me that support with his light, even though I felt impressed with what was happening to me.” That day, according to what he said, he was “liberated” and stopped being gay.
“Stop being homosexual is to have a hope of power and want to change. I decided after 38 years in homosexuality to stop and think about what I was doing. I realized that it was not my thing and that it was not what I wanted, “she assured.
The director of Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre)Mauricio Lizcano, He said that “Nerú has all the experience and leadership” and justified his millionaire hiring: “This is a diverse government, which wants to send messages of diversity and he is also part of some minorities that we are very interested in having.”
The government’s contract with the dancer, said the official, “is consistent with the great decisions that the State is taking,” among which is the hiring of a priest to officiate the masses and give spiritual help to Gustavo Petro and the first lady.
The lawyer specialized in Public Law and Master in Political and Electoral Analysis Daniel Briceño denounced the move of the Petro government and assured that the contract is quite worrying because “Nerú” was part of the presidential campaign of the then candidate of the Historical Pact.
“There is an issue of priorities that worries, it is evident that there is a payment of favors, because Nerú was in the Petro campaign. The national government can contract as it wishes, however, this goes against its austerity speech“, said.
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