Yesterday morning, Chamber representative Héctor David Chaparro met with Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla and gave him the preposition signed by all the congressmen attending yesterday’s plenary session in which they ask for the support of 400 million pesos to that the Samacá Symphony band can travel to Spain.
And indeed, the same minister confirmed that the money will be delivered through the Ministry of Culture and that in this way the delegation of 50 people from Boyacá will be able to travel to Valencia to participate in a symphonic band competition in which small and young artists from Samacá They will represent not only their municipality and Boyacá, but also Colombia.
It all happened after Mayor Wilson Castiblanco launched an SOS in Bogotá because neither by giving concerts at tolls and traffic lights, nor through bazaars, raffles and tamales, did they manage to raise the 400 million they needed for the trip.
Already in Bogotá, the members of the band gave a concert in front of Congress, seeking to attract its attention, and it was then that Representative Chaparro, a friend of the mayor and members of the same Liberal party, managed to convince the president of the Chamber, to allow the band’s spokespersons to intervene in the middle of the plenary session.
And yes, sir, the words of the mayor, the band director and one of the young artists managed to touch the hearts of the congressmen, who ended up unanimously supporting the proposition that the national government support them with 400 million pesos.
One more for Héctor David Chaparro in Congress…
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