The Colombian President, Gustavo Petrohe asked for the protocol resignation to all his ministers and other senior government officials, in the midst of the crisis that his cabinet lives after the controversial meeting last Tuesday that was broadcast on television and social networks, causing the stir of public opinion.
“I have requested protocol resignation to ministers, ministers and directors of administrative departments. There will be some changes in the cabinet to achieve greater compliance in the program ordered by the people, ”Petro wrote in the social network X.
The president added that from now on, when he lacks 18 months to finish his mandate, the government “will concentrate completely on the fulfillment of the program.”
Minutes after Petro published this message, The Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, presented her “irrevocable resignation” to the position and thanked the president for allowing him to work in a “political agenda in favor of millions of workersin the need to comply with the popular mandate of the government of change. ”
“We will continue working for a more fair and more democratic Colombia, understanding that politics must travel without sectarianism, but unambiguously,” Ramírez added, who had been in the Government since Petro assumed the presidency.
The controversial ministerial cabinet meeting, which lasted six hours during which the president and different members of the Government were accused and recriminated by management failures, led to the resignation of the director of the administrative department of the Presidency of the Republic, Jorge Rojasman of trust of the President, and the Minister of Cultures, Juan David Correa.
Then The legal secretary of the Presidency, Paula Robledo, left his position, and today announced the Minister of Environment, Susana Muhamadwho worked with Petro when he was mayor of Bogotá (2012-2015).
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Sinaloa cartel manipulates Colombian guerrillas, says Government
Gustavo Petro accused that the “boss” of the Colombian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) is the Sinaloa Cartel, and regretted the violence that shakes the Catatumbo region.
During the inauguration of the Scientific Complex for the Research of the Health Sciences of the Industrial University of Santander, in the city of Bucaramanga, Petro said that “the owners” of the ELN, which according to Insight Crime is the last active insurgency in Colombia, and one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Latin America, “are not Colombian commanders, are those that buy cocaine of Mexican origin.”
Then, The president said that “the cartel of Sinaloa He is the current chief of ELN. Mexican and foreign posters to kill their own brothers, as is the case in the Catatumbo. The red and black colors of these structures no longer mean freedom or death, but blood, blood and blood. ”
Armando Benedetti, the apple of discord between the cabinet
During the Council of Ministers last week, Susana Muhamad And other officials supported the Colombian vice president, France Márquez, in her criticisms of the appointment as head of the presidential office of former ambassador Armando Benedetti.
Benedett, who has also been a senator, has several corruption processes and starred in a scandal of sexist violence last July when being an ambassador to FAO in Rome his wife, Adelina Guerrero, denounced him for physical aggressions during a trip to Madrid.
“As a feminist and as a woman I can not sit at this cabinet table of our progressive project with Armando Benedetti,” Muhamad said in the Council of Ministers, which was broadcast live to the country on television and by social networks.
Petro has defended the permanence in the position of Benedetti, a key piece in the financing of his 2022 electoral campaign.
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