She is Paola Ochoa, the controversial vice-presidential formula of Rodolfo Hernández

This February 14 it was learned that Paola Ochoa, a panelist from Blu Radio and columnist for El Tiempowill be the vice-presidential formula of Rodolfo Hernández, who is second in most presidential polls, behind Senator Gustavo Petro.

According to Blu Radio, the decision was made after Hernández conducted a series of interviews with women from different parts of Colombia. CYou must remember that when the candidate presented the signatures for his candidacy, he announced that his vice-presidential formula would be a woman.

The journalist has become famous for a series of controversies on the radio and in her columns. One of them was her when she asked the national government not to give priority in vaccination to the elderly saying: “Does it make sense to give the vaccine first to those who are most likely to die?”

The radio panelist also continued to question the prioritization that has been given to older adults, saying that if not, young people and adolescents should be vaccinated first because “they have a whole life ahead of them” and affirmed that this idea comes from a proposal of The Boston Globeone of the most important newspapers in the United States, which wrote an article called ‘Vaccine the youngest’ in which it sets out the objectives of this initiative: to maximize the efficiency of the vaccine and minimize contagion.

As Ochoa explained in his text, the idea would be to have the ‘millennials’, born between 1980 and 1993, and generation Z, who range from 93 to 2000, in the front row. “the two large groups of asymptomatic patients and those most responsible for the spread of the virus throughout the globe”. In addition, he said that with these vaccination days could be implemented in schools, universities, cloisters and campuses, which would simplify and reduce costs and obstacles throughout the country.

“This would put an end to the ‘covid-parties’ and clandestine rumbas, while it would give a new air to the nightlife industry -bars, discos, cinemas, theaters and restaurants-“and proposes that these spaces modify their routines to receive young people who already have the vaccine, however, the Government has not spoken of any possibility of discriminating against who has or does not have the vaccine.

In June 2021, Ochoa assured that in some areas it is believed that giving breast milk for one or two years is from underdeveloped countries.. In her intervention on the station, the journalist defended milk in a jar and assured that there is no single truth and that the advantage of breast milk is because “it is very cheap.”

I have four children, three were born here and one was born there (United States) and the one who was born there the pediatrician told us that we had to start giving him powdered milk after three months, because these milks are super enriched and have a lot of amino acids, minerals, vitamins and what it does precisely is that children can develop much faster in size.

But one of the biggest and most repercussion controversies occurred during the 2021 national strike, when Ochoa asked one of the most important leaders of Buenaventura, Leonard Rentería, if he did not believe that blocking the bridge through which 60% enter of the merchandise was irreparable damage to the country. This position earned him an angry response from the young artist who told him “Irreparable for whom, journalist? (…) The only thing that interests you, from what I just heard, is that the merchandise enters and leaves. But who thinks of the black men and women, the indigenous, the mestizos who are here, working so that you have all the comforts in your homes? Who thinks of that? So we have to work at whatever cost?

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