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The young torreño Manuel García stayed on the doorstep of the podium in the sixth edition of the World University Debate Championship in Spanish held recently in Guatemala, where he signed a magnificent fourth place in the category of speech.
García, a law student at the University of Murcia (UM) and president of his debate club, stood at the door of the medals in this discipline in which the discursistas must prepare from a first speech to improvise a subject in a few minutes, Announce the death of his best friend and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Mathematics and Peace or star in a talk with his own cloned self.
The young man also was part of the Murcian couple in Guatemala that completed the student of Economy Edgar-Tomás Arroyo.
Both discussed during the disputed nine final rounds such diverse issues as the removal of custody to deaf parents who reject the cochlear implant for their deaf children or the possibility of supporting a Coyotes NGO dedicated to facilitating free passage of irregular immigrants By borders.
After these nine debates the UM managed to go to final rounds and get present for the fourth consecutive year (Córdoba 2016, Colombia 2015 and Mexico 2014) in the eighth of the competition, being in this case in the 21st position of more than 100 teams of all the world.
Pride of Torreño
The Torreño wanted to thank the Regional Assembly, the Vice-rector of Internationalization and the Culture and Communication of the UM, "its commitment to the debate thanks to which we could be one of the few Spanish public universities in Guatemala."
"For me it is a pride to represent the Region of Murcia and in particular my people, Las Torres de Cotillas, taking a bit of our beloved land to the Spanish-speaking world," explains García, who was received in the town hall Torreño a few days ago. The mayor, Domingo Coronado, and the councilman of Youth, Ginés Pérez.
Next year the World Cup will be played in Chile and from the UM they do not doubt that they want to return to "to increase the number of participations in final rounds".
A debate club that continues to develop its activity annually with training open to the university community in oratory and debate, and the organization of national tournaments.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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