“President Alvaro Uribe Velez Way” is located on west 16th avenue, in the section between 44th and 60th streets.
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has an avenue with his name in the city of Hialeah, in southern Florida (USA), which joins another that Miami-Dade County designated in the southwest of this demarcation, reported this Saturday local media.
The appointment of the highway artery is the result of resolutions approved by the Mayor of Hialeah and Miami-Dade County, where this city with a Hispanic majority is located, to honor in this way “the work and influence that Álvaro Uribe Vélez has had in the Latin American politics ”.
“He is the best president of the Americas in the last hundred years,” said the mayor of Hialeah, Carlos Hernández, during the presentation of the section with the new name, held on Friday, and where he highlighted the struggle of former president Uribe (2002-2010) against dictatorships and communism in the region.
The event was attended by Francisco Santos, vice president of Colombia during the government of the honoree, who recalled that the former president was “the first man who called for what he really was” to the late former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, as reported by the Univisión 23 Miami channel.
He said that Uribe coined the term “Castro-Chavismo” and that he is “the man who has fought against that populist left that ends democracy, that ends the economy and has the richest country in Latin America totally destroyed.”
The former president was part, via teleconference from Colombia, of the start-up of the “President Alvaro Uribe Velez Way”, which is located on Avenida 16 del Oeste, in the section between streets 44 and 60.
Uribe thanked the gesture of this city in southern Florida, although he said it has never been given to accept this type of recognition “due to the much controversy it generates.”
Precisely, the Miami-Dade County project last year, and which was finally approved, to designate a road with the name of the former president generated criticism from some organizations of Colombians abroad, who collected signatures on the Internet to oppose measure.
At that time, the politician was serving house arrest as a result of an investigation into witness tampering and procedural fraud to avoid legal charges, in addition to other processes for forced disappearances and his alleged role in the origins of the right-wing paramilitary forces.
After some delays in view of the controversy, the county commissioners finally approved the designation of “Alvaro Uribe Way” to Southwest 117th Avenue, between 24th and 40th streets. (I)
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