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Blinken highlights the impact of Shakira’s music in the US.

the secretary of US state, Antony Blinkenhighlighted this Wednesday the cultural impact that Colombian artists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ferdinand Botero o Shakira.

“Throughout history we have been immeasurably enriched by Colombian culture, the literature of Garcia Marquezthe art of Botero and the music of Shakira”, he expressed Blinken in an act in Washington with the president of Colombia, Ivan Duketo commemorate 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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“Colombia is called the land of a thousand rhythms. I suspect that Shakira he is responsible for 999 of them”, joked the leader of American diplomacy, a declared lover of music.

Blinken said that USA y Colombia they are united even before 1822, the date of the establishment of diplomatic relations, since the South American liberator Simon Bolivar He traveled along the American coasts between 1806 and 1807.

He recalled that “a few decades ago the future of Colombia was at risk” due to drug trafficking and the armed conflict, and praised the role played by the Plan Colombiaagreed between Washington y Bogotáto overcome this situation.

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Blinken also took the opportunity to thank Duque for his “invaluable leadership” in the IX Summit of the Americasheld last week in The Angelsin which twenty countries of the continent adopted a declaration to stop the migration crisis.

For his part, Duque stressed that Colombia y USA they have a “very good and strong relationship,” and he thanked the support of recent US presidents: Barack Obama, Donald Trump y Joe Biden.

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Of Biden He especially highlighted his decision to appoint Colombia as a strategic military ally of USA out of the OTAN.

And he also applauded his decision to exclude from the Summit of the Americas a Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaraguabecause, he said, in this type of event there is “no room for dictators.”

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