Shakira's new video, which shows her in a series of sexy scenes in the company of Rihanna, has unleashed the anger of a Colombian Councilman that has requested that the singer's video is banned from the country because he considers it to be "explicitly amoral".
According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Marco Fidel Ramírez, better known in Colombia as "The Family Councilman", started a campaign through his Twitter account to request that the video for the song "Can't Remember to Forget You" by popular singer Shakira be banned because he considers that it "contains a dangerous message for our youth."
The controversial councilman, who in the past has stood out for harshly criticizing the campaigns related to matters of the LGBT community in Bogotá, has asked the Colombian singer to consider removing her video, which in a few weeks has gotten over 72,000 views on YouTube, describing it as "erotic and dangerous for children."
Under the hashtag #PeligroVideoShakira (Shakira video danger), Fidel Ramírez has promoted a campaign in social networks with the objective of getting the popular Latina singer's new video banned.
@CNNEE from Colombia I respectfully ask @shakira to remove her new video because it morally destroys children and young people
- Marco Fidel Ramírez (@7MarcoFidelR) Feb. 3, 2014
Through a press release published on the website for the Council of Bogotá, Fidel Ramírez emitted a statement in which he "respectfully invites the Colombian singer to 'defend life, family and good values, and not destroy them as she does in her latest video."
"In my status as a father and now that you're a mother, I very respectfully ask you to remove your video from social networks and I hope that you also remove the song "Can't Remember to Forget You" from the market, where, along with Rihanna, you promote stealing, killing, practicing lesbianism and smoking, which goings against the natural social order. It's always preferable to refuse spurious interests and economic commitments, to negotiating moral principles and the values of Colombian tradition," the Councilman wrote in the document which can be read in the following link.
PRESS RELEASE: Letter to @shakira and the NATIONAL TV AUTHORITY: https://t.co/UwMqqrXIJI #PeligroVideoShakira pic.twitter.com/xJMJJPgbZ4
- Marco Fidel Ramírez (@7MarcoFidelR) Feb. 3, 2014
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