Through his Twitter account, Julián Román pointed out that Rappi Colombia had stolen it head-on. On this account he has more than 1.7 million followers. “I was robbed from the front by those from Rappi Colombia,” he said, adding the label of “robbery”, in the middle of a complaint about which he did not elaborate.
Julián Román's trill has had more than 4,000 positive reactions, was retweeted more than 800 times and received more than 500 comments among critical and supportive voices. So far the delivery company has not commented on this matter.
In response to the actor's complaint, several netizens began to comment, one of them being @roberrezpe defended the platform and mentioned that “it generates thousands of jobs and the amount of businesses that found the opportunity to compete leveraged in Rappi's capabilities is great. We have all had some disagreement with them (...)”. @lealcamilo15 replied: “'jobs'? Doesn't Rappi say that the rapiders aren't his employees? What it generates are 'jobs' in the conditions of the nineteenth century, without labor rights and with miserable overexploitation”.
It is noteworthy that, Rappi the application announced on Monday the start of a pilot program in Mexico so that its users in that country can pay with cybercurrencies, through a partnership with crypto asset exchange fintech Bitso and Bitpay.
Rappi, currently present in nine Latin American countries, has one of its main markets in Mexico, with 50,000 registered delivery people and a presence in 70 cities of the more than 250 cities in which it operates in the region.
According to Rappi, this pilot included teams from all areas of the organization, so that not only the easy in-app shopping experience can be added, but also to strengthen transaction security through a partnership with Bitso.
On the other hand, the actor said that he will be at the Bogotá International Theater Festival with History of a Sheep on 13,14,15,16 and 17th at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitán theater. The work was written and directed by Fabio Rubiano, it is the most recent creation of a moving testimony about migrants and migration and about people who are forced to leave their homes.
Focused from the innocent and naive gaze of the Berenée sheep and his companions, the Egyptian Ali, who left his country fleeing the desert wars and the girl Tránsito, his guide; the work reveals the tragedy of the long and tortuous journey suffered by victims of forced displacement in Colombia.
Román began acting at the age of seven with his father, fellow actor Edgardo Román, participated in workshops at the Luis Enrique Osorio District Theater School, and then continued it with studies of dramatic art, space management and body expression at the Teatro Popular in Bogotá TPB, and at the Research Laboratory Artistic and Theatrical 'Let's Act' with her father. He has participated in various theater productions representing Colombia at various international festivals including Washington, Sydney, Moscow, Caracas, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Bogotá.
In theater he has participated in more than 40 plays, including The Festival of the Goat, Chronicle of an Announced Death and The Incredible and Sad Story of Candida Erendira and her Soulless Grandmother, among others.
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