The National Government began the week with a series of appointments in key entities.
Concepción Baracaldo, at the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf), Paola Andrea Arias, at the Opportunities Bank, and Hernando Chica Zuccardi, at the Agrarian Bank They were the last appointments confirmed by President Gustavo Petro’s team.
(Petro Government: the entities that are still missing for appointments).
The new ICBF director would be sworn in this Tuesday, September 13. Although her name had already sounded for a few days, there are strong critics for her designation, since the main concerns arise because Baracaldo does not have experience in the field of childhood.
On September 8, a group of citizens sent a letter to President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Márquez. In that text they claimed that “Baracaldo is a business administrator, doctor in economic sciences, former planning advisor for Tocancipá and Chía. She worked at the Banco de la República and at the Bogotá Energy company, a profile that has nothing to do with children’s issues”.
In the letter, additionally, they urgently requested that the named person be “Suitable, capable, proven, just as it was done for the Ministry of Finance with a view to calming the markets and restoring investors’ confidence.”
(Petro cabinet composition, key to investor confidence).
Another of the most controversial appointments in this group is that of Hernando Chica Zuccardi, at Banco Agrario, who is the nephew of Piedad Zuccardi, a former senator from La U convicted of parapolitics.
girl went CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of IGT (International Game Technology) for Colombia, a multinational dedicated to gaming technology and was previously the fiduciary president of Previsora and financial vice president of the Telecommunications Company of Bogotá (ETB).
(This is how Gustavo Petro’s cabinet is left).
The group is completed by Paola Arias Gómez who will take over as director of the Bank of Opportunities. Gómez is a professional in Finance and International Relations from the Externado University of Colombia with a specialization in Risk Economics and Information from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master’s in Public Administration from
Columbia University in the City of New York, in the United States.
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