This footage was filmed and produced 22 September 2023.

The body of the artist Fernando Botero was received today Friday, among applause, in the elliptical hall of the Colombia Congress to start the farewell acts that the country will offer during a week in the capital, Bogotá, and in Medellín, his hometown .

The coffin with the remains of the Colombian painter and sculptor, considered together with Gabriel García Márquez the most universal Colombian of all time, will remain three days in the enclosure, which will be open so that citizens can give them their last goodbye.

The act was chaired by the presidents of both Changes of Congress, who highlighted the value that Botero printed to the entire Colombian people in the most murky moments of the recent history of the South American country and that he reflected in his works.