After the comfortable triumph of Rejection in Sunday’s plebiscite, the President Gabriel Boric He made a change of cabinet this Tuesday. The modification occurred in the ownership of six ministries: Interior, Segpres, Health, Social Development, Energy and Science.
In Interior, Minister Siches leaves the Government and assumes the former mayor of Santiago (2012-2016) Carolina Toha (PPD). Tohá served in 2009 as Minister of the Segpres under the first Government of Michelle Bachelet. In addition, she was a deputy between 2002 and 2009.
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Let us remember that the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) has maintained an open process against Tohá since 2019. This, for money wasted in 2016, from the Preferential School Subsidy (SEP).
The amount of the resources amounts to $265,462,815, equivalent to 5,843.46 UTM. Valued as of February 2019, the amount corresponds to $282,268,822.
The resources would have been used to pay a teacher’s compensation, in addition to hiring the advice of training companies. These are not contemplated in the SEP Law.
In addition, the money would have been used in educational establishments not attached to the SEP and in the improper purchase of visors, shirts, tables, chairs, among others.
Health: Ximena Aguilera
In the Ministry of Health (Minsal), the President replaced Maria Begona Yarza by Ximena Aguilerawho is a specialist in Public Health at the University of Chile.
Before assuming the position, she was director of the Center for Epidemiology and Health Policies of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad del Desarrollo.
Previously, she served as Senior Advisor for Communicable Diseases at the Pan American Health Organization (2008-2010); She was head of the Health Planning Division of the Ministry of Health (2005-2008) and national head of Epidemiology of the same portfolio (1999-2005).
She has also worked as a consultant for different international organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank, carrying out activities in various Latin American countries and in China.
Social Development: Giorgio Jackson
President Boric changed to George Jackson (RD) from the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres) to the Ministry of Social Development.
During his tenure as Segpres minister, Jackson – who was a deputy between 2014 and 2022 – was questioned by sectors of Democratic Socialism and especially by PS senators.
One of Jackson’s latest controversies occurred in August, after an interview on Twitch. “Our scale of values and principles around politics is not only far from the previous government, but I think that compared to a generation that preceded us, which could be identified with the same range of political spectrum, such as the center left and the left “, said.
“I think we’re approaching the issues less euphemistically and more frankly,” Jackson added in the interview.
Those statements generated a series of criticisms, both on the right and in Democratic Socialism. “Installed from an unacceptable moral superiority, throughout Chile the majority of its representatives think the same as the minister. That is why it has gone as it has gone. Giorgio Jackson will surely say that they took it out of context,” said the senator. fidel espinoza (PS) on his Twitter account.
Second: Ana Lya Uriarte
Uriarte is 60 years old, is a lawyer and an academic. She began her professional activity as an external lawyer for the Vicariate of Solidarity. She also worked at the Pension Standardization Institute, she was chief of staff and head of the Legal Department of the Metropolitan Environmental Health Service (Sesma).
After this, she worked as a lawyer for the Environment Unit of the State Defense Council (CDE).
In 2006, she was appointed by former president Michelle Bachelet as executive director of the National Environment Commission, a position she held until March 26, 2007, when the former president appointed her as prime minister president of the aforementioned body, where she served until March 11, 2010.
On July 14, 2014, she became Bachelet’s chief of staff, replacing Paula Narváez. On the other hand, on May 18 of this year, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, appointed her as chief of staff of the Ministry of the Interior, replacing doctor Roberto Estay.
Before returning to La Moneda, she was campaign manager for César Valenzuela, a former student leader who won a seat in the dissolved Constitutional Convention, as part of the Socialist Collective.
Energy: Diego Pardow
At the Ministry of Energy, President Boric replaced Claudio Huepe by Diego Pardow (CS), who is a lawyer from the Universidad de Chiles and has a Master’s and Doctorate in Law from the University of California, Berkeley. Until now he was an advisor to the second floor of La Moneda.
Science: Silvia Diaz
The scientist -the first woman to hold this position- has worked as a close collaborator of former senator Guido Guirardi, and father of Future Congress, the internationally prestigious science dissemination event.
The newly appointed minister is a native of Quillota and has a doctorate in Chemistry from the Catholic University of Chile. She served as scientific director of the Fundación Encuentros del Futuro and led the multidisciplinary team that has been in charge of the coordination and production of the knowledge dissemination event.
In parallel, another of the dissemination activities in which the doctor has participated was Futuristas, which aims to bring scientific and technological knowledge closer to children and adolescents.
