00:00Almost two weeks after the election of Abelardo de la Espriella as president-elect,
00:04The first three members of the new cabinet were officially announced. Miguel Gómez
00:08Martínez, who will assume the Ministry of Finance, and Rodrigo Lara, who will be in charge
00:12from the Ministry of the Interior and Fabio Arjona, who will head the Ministry of the Environment.
00:17Through his social media accounts, de la Espriella appointed Fabio Arjona as the new chief
00:21from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. He confirmed that his announcement is due to Arjona
00:25He has never abandoned his commitment to nature and to Colombia.
00:29The new minister is a marine biologist from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and had been leading
00:35The transition of the environmental sector to the incoming government. From 2013 until a few years ago
00:39For months, Arjona served as vice president of Conservation International, an environmental NGO.
00:45American non-profit. The second cabinet member appointed.
00:49Miguel Gómez Martínez was Minister of Finance. The economist from the Institute of Studies
00:53Politician from Paris, with a master's degree in International Economics, has been an international manager
00:58and executive president of Asocol Flores, as well as economic advisor to the Ministry of Commerce
01:04Foreigner and Secretary of the Higher Council for Foreign Trade.
01:07Finally, the first cabinet minister in his administration, former senator Rodrigo Lara Restrepo,
01:12who will be the new Minister of the Interior. Lara Restrepo is no newcomer to politics.
01:17His surname is historically linked to the assassination of his father, a former Minister of Justice,
01:21at the hands of the Medellín cartel in 1984. In 2006 he was appointed director of the anti-corruption program
01:28in the government of Álvaro Uribe and in 2007 Lara assumed the seat of Senator Germán Vargas Lleras.
01:34Four years later he returned to Congress, but this time in the House of Representatives
01:38in Bogotá. There he won the presidency of the Lower House between 2017 and 2018.
01:44The following year he returned to the Senate, the same period in which he assumed leadership of the party.
01:49Radical Change. He also ran for Mayor of Bogotá in 2023, but came in fourth place.
01:55Among the rumors to fill other portfolios is Vivian Morales, who could be at
02:00Education Front, General Jorge Mora to head Defense, Iván Cancino in Justice
02:06and Indalecio Dangón for Agriculture. All of those mentioned head the team of
02:11A transition in their respective portfolios. If you want to stay up to date on the appointments that will be made by
02:16government of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, don't forget to visit the section
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