In the last hours, this Sunday, October 2, President Gustavo Petro appointed María Valencia Gaitán as the new director of the National Center for Historical Memory. It is noted that Valencia is the granddaughter of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
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Also, architect by profession, from the Universidad de los Andes, and expert in urban renewal. Along with this, she filmmaker with several documentary productions about her grandfather, such as “Gaitán Sí!” (1998).
He has specializations in graphic, scenic and visual arts in Colombia, the United States, France and India.
During Gustavo Petro’s campaign for Mayor of Bogotá, Valencia Gaitán was part of the programmatic team and coordinated the connection in the Urban Renewal Company.
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Later, he became a member of Petro’s cabinet during that mayoralty as Habitat secretary. She is the wife of Daniel García-Peña, who was the president’s right-hand man during that political campaign.
“I think he is a suitable person, as a victim who is perhaps of the initial process of violence that has us here, gathered, and for his academic skills to lead that National Center of Memory, the processes of historical memory, what it means in the background the truth within a conflict“, said President Petro at the relaunch event of the Commission for Follow-up, Promotion and Verification of the implementation of the Peace Agreement.
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The president assured that Valencia’s task will be to direct the processes of historical memory in the country and the truth of the conflict.
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