“President Petro’s travels: From California to Spain to Brazil and a tribute to a royal pianist”

The country saw President Petro on television in California and Washington. It was received by the tired Joe Biden, today a candidate for re-election and I think Donald Trump will defeat him.

Then President Petro left for Spain. We saw him with his wife Verónica in greetings with the notables of the bank and the nobility. Petro did something very human, he said that he would not be comfortable wearing a tailcoat. Understandable, it is as if I went to soccer, dressed as a Bishop. They pleased him and he arrived at the royal palace in an aristocratic Rolls Royce car. Armored car that Hitler gave to Generalissimo Franco and used happily by Petro, the socialist and ex-guerrilla, today president of Colombia. Spot.

Petro followed Portugal, the generous metropolis that gave Brazil independence without waging a war. The Prince regent in the Brasil colony said: “We are independent from today, let the music and the samba of Rio de Janeiro come.

Brazil keeps the pianist Mario Fernando Prado seduced by his past, his music, by his musical talents. He knows very well and plays some 200 productions on his piano, apart from the historic ‘Girl from Ipanema’. He told us that in Bogotá in a recital that he offered at the Metropolitan club, at the invitation of its presidents María Cristina Palau Londoño and the lawyer and union leader Jaime Mantilla García.

I was invited to the recital. I thoroughly enjoyed the 95 minutes. The pianist, after his recital, was highly applauded by notables from Bogotá, by the Borrero cousins, the Ochoa cousins, the Urdaneta nieces, the Casas cousins ​​and by Julián Domínguez and his girlfriend-wife Mariaisabel, plus María Claudia Pinzón de Mantilla and many friends of the Pianist.

Mario Fernando Prado delivers a tribute to 87 historic bolero singers every day through the satellite winds and incidentally to Edith Piaff, Agustín Lara and Cuban artists. He has been in this musical gift for 1,267 days, since the pandemic and they reach us through the networks.

Here I finished and I tell you that for this note, the pianist promised to pay me. And the payment arrived: on his account I will live 40 days with my wife Lulita Arango in a hotel in Punta Gallina, in La Guajira at 44 degrees of heat. Haiti is better in summer. Not accepted. Spot.

Mario Fernando Piano, applause for you, not for your job as a columnist, but for being a royal pianist. Bravo ‘champion’.