The Afro -Colombian activist Carlos Rosero resigned this Saturday to the Ministry of Equality and Equity of Colombia, a position he held for five months, In the midst of internal tensions in the government of President Gustavo Petro.
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His departure paves the way for the possible appointment of the current Deputy Minister of the portfolio, Juan Florián, a political rights and human rights defender who in the past He worked as a porn actor and whose application has generated controversy even within the ruling party.
Rosero announced his resignation in a letter written from the Caribbean island of San Andrés, coinciding with the commemoration of the Raizal Emancipation Day, which recalls the abolition of slavery in that Colombian territory in 1834. In its letter, Rosero highlighted advances such as the reorganization of the Ministry’s budget and the implementation of anti -corruption mechanisms, as well as the presentation of a bill to guarantee the continuity of this portfolio, created in 2023.
“My commitment to the country and the change process remains intact“Rosero wrote, who assumed the leadership of the portfolio after the departure of Vice President France Márquez, her first headline.
The Ministry of Equality and Equity is one of the emblematic bets of the Petro government, with the aim of combating structural inequalities in a country marked by deep social and ethnic gaps. However, the portfolio has been surrounded by controversies since its creation.
Last month, Petro claimed Rosero for not accepting Florián in his team, during a Council of Ministers transmitted to the country in which he announced that he will make more changes in his cabinet due to lack of results of the current headlines.
“No one who is black will tell me that you have to exclude a porn actor“Petro told Rosero in allusion Florián, with which the minister was held with the days.
Florián, 42, is a political scientist with more than two decades of experience in international cooperation and activism, but his past as an adult film actor and his status as a positive HIV person have raised reactions found within the same left.
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“I do not come from the elites. I was migrant, sex worker, I am HIV positive, but I am also a political scientist and human rights defender“, It was Florián’s defense on social networks. With the resignation of Rosero there are already 55 ministers who have passed through the Gustavo Petro’s cabinet since his possession in August 2022,
EFE.
