Gustavo Petro appoints three women as heads of the Colombian Ministries of Health, Environment and Agriculture

The elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroconfirmed this Tuesday three new names for his future cabinet by naming the doctor Carolina Corcho in the Health portfolio, the economist Cecilia López Montaño in Agriculture and the environmental political scientist Susana Muhamad in the Environment.

This was stated in an interview with W Radio, in which he launched these new names that are added to those of Álvaro Leyva in the Foreign Ministry, José Antonio Ocampo in the Treasury and the last one that was known yesterday of the playwright Patricia Ariza in Culture.

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Corka psychiatrist and political scientist who was leading the connection team with the current Health executive, became known during the pandemic when she began speaking as vice president of the Colombian Medical Federation, a health union, denouncing the conditions of health workers. health.

However, he was criticized for making incorrect statements among his complaints, with data that was not true.

For its part, Lopez Montanoa 79-year-old liberal politician with extensive experience in offices, was already Minister of Agriculture between 1996 and 1997 during the Government of Ernesto Samper.

Lopez Montanowho also held a seat in the Senate and was a Liberal Party presidential candidate for 2010, showed her support for Petro during the second round campaign, along with other congressmen and former Liberal ministers and more from the center wing.

With her, Petro he is once again betting on giving posts in his government to the more moderate and center sector, as he already did with Ocampo, a highly reputed economist who was executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and even with the conservative Leyva, a politician expert in peace affairs and negotiations.

Finally, Muhammadcurrent member of the Council of Bogotá and who belongs to the formation of Petrola Colombia Humana, was secretary of the environment in Bogotá between 2012 and 2015 when the next president was mayor, and is a political scientist with a master’s degree in Sustainable Development Management and Planning.

Petro promised that his cabinet would be equal, and with these appointments there are already four women in front of two men -most of them over 60 years old-, although the names of the other twelve people who will occupy positions as important as Defense, Justice or Interior.

Source: Elcomercio

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