Through a publication, the representative of the Magdalena chamber, Hernando Guida, announced that the Secretariat of Culture of Santa Marta, headed by Darío Linero, awarded a contract to a private company worth $6.5 billion to “unite efforts” in the realization of the Sea Festival 2024.
The millionaire contract, which has a duration of 120 days, has the Rumbo 500 Years Consortium as its supplier and the description highlights that it will be to carry out “efforts in relation to the development of the Sea Festival, strengthening of arts, culture and knowledge, towards the 500 years of Santa Marta”.
The exact amount of the contract is $6,490,039,680, so representative Guida suggested to Mayor Carlos Pinedo Cuello to rethink the decision to assign these resources to a private operator, in the midst of the panorama that Santa Marta is going through in terms of security, labor formalization , health, public services, among others.
“I respectfully ask the mayor of Santa Marta, Carlos Pinedo, to reconsider the contract of $6.5 billion with a private operator to hold parties and festivals. I suggest that, given the situation of the Samaria community, Rethink that unfortunate decision and allocate those important resources to alleviate structural problems such as insecurity, labor formalization, health, public services, among others. “Those must be the priorities of public spending in his period,” the congressman published.
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