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Chencho Arias, preacher of Holy Week 2020 and Ramón Sánchez Parra, Nazarene of the Year.
This morning the children's crier, David de Andrés Serrano, from the Divino Maestro school, and the poster of Holy Week 2020, from the Murcian painter José Hurtado Mena, in the Cajamar Culture Classroom
Murcia Holy Week already has an official poster, whose author is the Murcian painter José Hurtado Mena;
a work starring the Brotherhood of Hope, holder of Holy Week 2020, which will take place this year from April 3 to 12.
The Cajamar Culture Classroom has hosted this morning the presentation of the poster, in an act that has had art as the protagonist and attended by the Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, the Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Moreno, the Councilor for Economic Promotion and Tourism, Pedro García, and the president of the Cabildo del Real and Very Illustrious Cabildo Superior de Cofradías, José Ignacio Sánchez Ballesta.
During the day they also presented themselves to the preacher of Holy Week 2020, preacher of the Angel and Nazarene of the Year 2020. On this occasion, Inocencio Félix Arias Llamas, 'Chencho Arias', is the preacher of Holy Week 2020;
the preacher of the Angel - child preacher - David de Andrés Serrano, 10 years old, of the Divine Teacher school;
and the Nazarene of the Year 2020, Ramón Sánchez Parra Servet, former president of the Royal and Very Illustrious Superior Cabildo of Brotherhoods of Murcia and current deputy in the Regional Assembly.
"Your job is to spread through all corners one of the characteristic elements of Murcia's identity, with more than six centuries of history, such as Murcia's Holy Week, one of the oldest in Spain, with which our streets vibrate with emotion and fervor those days when Murcia smells like orange blossom, "said the Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesus Pacheco, addressing the preachers and the Nazarene of the Year 2020.
Thirty Spanish and foreign decorations
Chenco Arias, the preacher of Holy Week 2020, was born in Albox (Almería), on April 20, 1940, and has worked as a Spanish politician and diplomat.
Orphaned as a father since he was nine years old, he made his primary studies at the Jesuits in Orihuela, Alicante and the law degree in Murcia.
In 1967, when he worked as an assistant professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, he approved the opposition to the diplomatic career, obtaining the position in the Diplomatic School until a year later.
His first destination was Bolivia, as third secretary;
in 1971 he went to Algiers, already as first secretary, and in 1975 to Lisbon.
In 1979 he assumed the position of deputy director general of the Office of Diplomatic Information and in 1981 director general of the Office of Information
Diplomatic (OID).
In 1983, he became vice president of the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute (ICI), a position he held until mid-1985, when he returned to the direction of the Office of Diplomatic Information.
In 1988 he was appointed deputy secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and secretary general of Foreign Policy, which forced him to be part of the entourage of the Kings and Prince Felipe in his travels abroad.
Also on this same portfolio depended his next position, Secretary of State for International Cooperation and for Latin America, during which, in addition to promoting the rapprochement between both lands, he took part in several international summits, such as in Madrid, held in 1991.
Among his charges, he also points out that in 1997 he was appointed ambassador of Spain to the United Nations.
Since 2015, he has collaborated with the Herrera morning program in COPE, and with the press written in the newspapers de la Verdad, ABC, Ideal, Diario de Navarra, the Provinces, etc.
He is in possession of about thirty Spanish and foreign decorations, among which the Great Crosses of Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Honduras stand out;
Order of Isabel the Catholic (1980);
Order of Carlos III (1982);
May Order, granted by Argentina;
Order of St. Michael and St. George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain;
German Merit Medal;
Medal of Merit of the Italian Republic and Medal of St. Olaf of Norway.
Likewise, in the world of communication, he has been awarded by the International Press Club, the National Association of Graphic Press Reporters and the 'Primera Plana' journalistic club.
He is in love with Murcia, its traditions and its Holy Week.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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