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Comments about Colombia overshadow happiness of Shakira

Bogota, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) The joy that Shakira's winning of the Grammy award for best Latin pop album today brings to Colombia was overshadowed by comments described as xenophobic made by the gala's host Trevor Noah.

During last night’s 67th edition of the Awards held in the city of Los Angeles, in the United States, the artist from Barranquilla deserved a gramophone for her album Women No Longer Cry, but in the South American nation the show generated discomfort for a reference to the neo-Granadian nation.

In his introduction to the Colombian artist, the host of the show commented that Shakira “is the only thing coming out of Colombia that is not a first class felony.”

Such pronouncement deserved the repudiation of several internet users who qualified Noah’s words as discriminatory and ignorant.

“Shameful xenophobic comment by Trevor Noah, host of the Grammys, against Colombia.”

Today we must repudiate these stigmatizing comments against our country’, wrote David Rozo, for example.

Another person identified as Doña Pili commented that Noah was a brute, ignorant and xenophobe who insulted Shakira and the South American country.

The winning artist, in turn, dedicated her award to migrants.

“I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country.”

You are loved, you are worthy, and I will always fight with you and with all those women who work very hard every day to raise their families,’ she said in her speech.

The controversy over Noah’s comments at the Grammys presentation comes at a time when there are massive deportations of Latin Americans with irregular status in the United States to their countries of origin.

In the specific case of Colombia, President Donald Trump labeled all deportees as criminals.

The Neo-Granadian government denied such accusations, assuring that none of those returned to date from the northern nation has a criminal record.

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