Through a statement, the company Panam Sports, responsible for organizing the sports events, announced that the venue for the 2027 Pan American Games will be played between Paraguay and Peru, leaving out Colombia and the procedures that Gustavo Petro’s Government had been carrying out to recover the competition that would initially be carried out in Barranquilla.
Petro himself had asserted that “Duque’s government failed to comply with the organizers of the Pan American Games, as stated in the letter that the Olympic Committee sent me,” making it clear that responsibility for the games should not fall solely on his administration.
In an interview for W radio, Víctor Muñoz, director of Dapre (Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic) in the government of Iván Duque, recognized his responsibility for the Pan American Games.
“At this moment and looking back, we clearly have the responsibility of not having achieved, in advance and not on August 4, that Organizing Committee formed: that is the responsibility that falls to us,” Muñoz told that medium. radial.
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