Formal description of the presentation:
The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Colombia is Passion will be presenting in an informal ceremony at the Discover Colombia Through Its heart main exhibit at Union Station. This award comes from an online contest held from the 22nd of April until the 13th of June of 2009, through the RedEsColombia site
Washington D.C., - 152 Colombians living in the US, in over 26 states were postulated. Amongst these, 20 final nominees were selected and out of these 9 final winners were picked through online voting at www.redescolombia.org.
Over 106.743 votes were given to all of the 9 winners, who are bringing up the best of Colombia on their communities. It is important to bring up the importance of the participation of the Colombian Embassy and the 9 Colombian Consulates in the US.
On July the 13th the final winners were officially annonunced: José Ordóñez, José Eugenio Hoyos, Héctor F. Idárraga Betancur, Yolanda Naranjo, Edwin Gil, Margarita Quintero, Jairo Álvarez Botero, César Zapata and John Moreno.
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The award recipients are part of the Colombian Footprint program from the http://www.colombiaespasion.com site -- see http://www.colombiaespasion.com/es/asi-es-colombia/nuestra-gente/huella-colombiana . I can't read Spanish but these translations are based on ones thankfully provided by Google.
* José Bernardo Ordóñez: He has beaten seven world records telling jokes in Colombia and Ecuador and Uruguay. The jokes have collected thousands of dollars for children. It has more than one thousand two hundred seventy hours of jokes work with children in Colombia.
* Father Jose Eugenio Hoyos Salcedo: Passion for freedom, peace and international solidarity. He has lived in the Washington metropolitan area ...More...
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