Petro and Hernández's answer to Martín Santos if they would reinstall Botero's dove of peace in the Casa de Nariño

Martín Santos, son of former President Juan Manuel Santos, asked the presidential candidates if they arrived at the Casa de Nariño they would put the peace dove that Santos had back in the presidential house during his administration after the peace accords with the FARC.

The dove was artistically crafted by the Antioquian sculptor Fernando Botero and delivered just the day the agreements were signed along with a message from Botero that said: “I join this transcendental process of peace in Colombia”.

Since then, the monument has been in the Casa de Nariño and was only removed from there, according to Martín Santos, at the request of the current President Iván Duque. This was the question asked by the eldest son of the Saints through Twitter:

To this statement, several followers of Martín Santos responded that it was his own father who sent the pigeon to the National Museum where it can currently be seen: “Let's see, your dad moved it to the National Museum... why do you want to get it out of there. Leave the show”, “But Martiiiiin if the pigeon has been in the National Museum since August 4, 2018, your mother gave it up and everything” and “the current government did not take it out... it was handed over to the National Museum earlier and is on display”, are some of the comments they made to him.

However, in the comments Martin himself commented that “the notification was during the splicing process. That is why the transfer date is prior to August 7.”

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Santos tagged Sergio Fajardo, Federico Gutiérrez, Ingrid Betancourt, Gustavo Petro and Engineer Rodolfo Hernández, the latter two being the ones who really came up with a response on the social network.

On Gustavo Petro's side, the answer was short, but clear: “we are reinstalling it,” said the leader of the Historical Pact, who always agreed with the peace process with the extinct FARC guerrilla.

While on the side of Rodolfo Hernández his response was a little longer, but to tell the truth similar to that of Petro on Twitter: “You can assume that Botero's dove of peace is going to be in the Casa de Nariño, but peace is not going to be a fact of a museum, but will be alive throughout the country, in my Government.”

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None of the other candidates has answered Martin's question. The race to get to Casa de Nariño is becoming more intense every day for candidates who travel to many parts of the country to bring their proposals to the communities and cities of more capital cities.

They also attend to the media on current issues and present their proposals and ideas in order to become presidents of the republic for the next 4 years. Remember that the elections for the first presidential round is May 29.

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