The mayor of Cali, Alejandro Eder, confessed to the director of , Vicky Dávila. He did it this Wednesday, October 2, from Cali, where he said: “My dream is not to be mayor of Cali, it is to serve Colombia.”
Eder gave details of his childhood and how he ended up linked to politics. He said he grew up in Cali until he was seven, but his family did not escape the violence in Colombia. One of his aunts was kidnapped and he had no choice but to leave the country for the United States. That happened in the eighties.
He worked a few meters from the tragedy and that day, fortunately, he did not arrive at the exact moment of the attack. Otherwise, he is clear that he would not be telling the story. “A twin tower would have fallen on me,” he said.
Furthermore, he said that on one occasion, his mother, in the United States, told him that Colombia, due to the difficult security situation it was going through, needed people who would really do enough for the country. “They have to study and work for Colombia and the peace of the country, my mother told me,” he said. In his opinion, that is what he is doing.
In the middle of his speech, the Mayor told how he became the Mayor of Cali. And also how the administration received.
“I found myself in a mayor’s office where there was no clarity about where things were,” he said.
Eder does not look in the rearview mirror and beyond questioning his predecessor, he expressed in SEMANA that the Cali Mayor’s Office had the tools to work and assembled the necessary team to manage the capital of Valle del Cauca.
“The first challenge was to stop the free fall that Cali was in, free financially, administratively,” he said.
The president also delivered a complex balance of COP16, the most important international biodiversity event in the world and which will be held in the capital of Valle del Cauca.
He said, for example, that it will be the largest biodiversity summit in recent years. There will be 15,000 official delegates, the city’s hotel occupancy reaches 80 percent just a few weeks before the event, of which 70 percent are foreigners. “It is the first time that Cali will have a large number of visits from foreigners,” said the president.
In addition, 720 international journalists will attend, in addition to Colombians who will show the world the benefits of the city.
