Gustavo Bolívar denies having been part of the demonstrations in the Primate Cathedral of Bogotá

Last Sunday, March 20, hooded citizens entered the Primate Cathedral of Bogotá to advance a protest against different conjunctural issues in the country. In the midst of the criticism that these actions received on social networks, a photograph of a man who some claimed to be Gustavo Bolivar began to circulate. He himself, on his social networks, assured that this is false news and that, in fact, by the day of the demonstration, he was not even in the area.

“I wanted to rest for the weekend to recharge my strength in the face of the Petro campaign president in the first place and I couldn't. Antier a madwoman said my sister worked at the Registrar's Office. Today they said I was sabotaging the mass in the Primate Cathedral. Already faggots! (...) I do have to admit that (the man in the video) is very similar and that gives rise to suspicion, that if I don't go out to deny them, then the story of the 'Fake News' remains”, he added in the statement he made to public opinion. Bolivar, by Sunday, was in Ibague.

“About the events of the Primate Cathedral in which a person who looks like me appears. It's not Gustavo Bolivar. It's not me. For the avoidance of doubt, I just made this video from Girardot. Please RT to stop the slander,” he added on his Twitter account.

From Ibague, he even recorded a video in which he explained what happened to the Jamming Festival, canceled a day before the planned date of its initiation. “Before teleporting to the Primate Cathedral, I stopped by Ibague and recorded this video in case you want to know what happened to Jamming Why was the event canceled?” , wrote Bolívar alongside a video in which he explained what happened with the performance of the concert conglomerate.

“Peace? What peace are we talking about? When we forget to love each other. The peace of the secular country of ideological impositions. The country that annihilates the hopes of the peoples. That weeps the blood of sisters and brothers. This is the first performance of RAR”, is read in one of the trills in which a young woman is seen standing on one of the benches of the cathedral. The woman, with a piece of paper in her hands, read that same message.

“The church is a fascist, controlling and sexist institution,” was added among the harangues shouted by the protesters.

According to what is read in that Twitter profile, the RAR is the 'Network of Artists in Resistence'. That collective points out in their account that: “We scream and poetize in the face of the unjust, they have fire in their weapons, we fire in our hearts”. Precisely, before the viralization of the video of the controversial protest, that profile of that social network warned of its realization. “We will walk this path together from the street and dignified anger, from academia and reflection, from art and collective creation, our struggle continues to grow day after day”, the account also appears under the classification of 'restricted'.

The parish primacy of the Primada Cathedral, Father Jorge Marín, commented before the microphones of the local news program CityTV that, “they entered with masks and took part in the benches to participate in the celebration, like anyone else. And when communion was about to begin, they hooded up right there, stood on the benches and started shouting harangues. But it was not understood what they were asking for or what movement they were from.”

Despite the fact that this Twitter profile is known, the National Police is currently investigating the identity of the perpetrators. Likewise, it is expected to discover whether these acts are related to the so-called Frontline.

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