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Updated Sep 2024
Juan Pablo Dimitri Vergara Cifuentes, 27, the first public official in Bogotá with Down syndrome, has been working for two years as an administrative assistant in the citizen service area of the District Government Secretary in Bogota, Colombia on March 20, 2024. Dimitri, as he is known in his role as a public official, who in 2019 was part of the Colombian delegation at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi where he won two medals representing the country in horse riding, who is also a professional dancer and It is part of the Tierra Colombiana Ballet Cultural Foundation.
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