After the realization of the America Rockstars festival on Saturday in Punta del Este, where more than 4,000 people attended and images of people crowded together and without masks were seen watching the musical shows of María Becerra and Mau and Ricky, President Luis Lacalle Pou said this Sunday at a press conference that he contacted the Undersecretary of Public Health, José Luis Satdjian, to find out if the show had “departmental authorizations” and that he is awaiting the response of the ministry to see if if sanitary protocols for public shows were violated.
“If he did not have them (the authorizations), as far as the national government is concerned, he will be fined,” Lacalle pointed out. “If a show like the one we all saw in the photo was made and it did not have the permits, we must act accordingly”, added.
MSP sources told The Observer that the inspection team of the ministry He is already in contact with the Maldonado Municipality to investigate what happened during the festival. The images show the breach of protocols for musical shows, where people were standing and without distance, as required by the MSP.
Different personalities from music, social networks and television participated in the America Rockstars festival: The presenter was the Argentine television host Darío Barassi and had the participation of the influencer Santi Maratea, the TV producer Nacho Viale, the fashion designer Ricky Sarkany, the media director Darío Turovelzky, the biologist Estanislao Bachrach, the ontological coaching specialist Brenda Cohen, the television producer Cris Morena and the former tennis player Guillermo Coria.
On Saturday night, the singers Mau and Ricky and María Becerra performed at that festival, part of the America Business Forum..
In turn, the president added that he communicated with the group Uruguay es Música, which, given the images of the festival, demanded “the end of limited capacity for all kinds of shows”. “Another thing is the request of this type of groups that ask for a larger capacity and that we are seriously studying the possibility of doing so”, assured the president.
The collective had demonstrated at noon on Sunday. “Mr. Minister: Why does the government keep restricting the live music sector? They continue bastardizing and limiting capacities while others work in total normality. Normality should be for everyone“the group asked the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, on his Twitter account.
