Former Minister of Agriculture Jhenifer Mojica will be the new ambassador of Colombia to the FAO

President Gustavo Petro will appoint former Minister of Agriculture Jhenifer Mojica as Colombia’s new ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

This charge It was vacant since November 25, 2024, when Armando Benedetti resigned amid a scandal over an alleged attack on his wife in Spain.

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Mojica has extensive experience in the sector. In addition to having been Minister of Agriculture until June of this year, she was deputy manager of Incoder between 2011 and 2013, during the government of former president Juan Manuel Santos. He also worked in the National Land Restitution Unit.

The official He will assume his position at the diplomatic headquarters in Rome, which was opened during the government of President Gustavo Petro and which, as revealed by the senator of the Democratic Center María Fernanda Cabal, has cost the country more than 1,200 million pesos.

What happened to Benedetti?

The former Colombian ambassador to Venezuela returned to the country and now works as ‘political advisor’ to the president Gustavo Petro in the House of Nariño.

“I have just resigned from the President of the Republic to assume some functions as his direct advisor,” Benedetti said after a meeting with the president and the director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), Laura Sarabia, with whom he does not have a cordial relationship.

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The dispute between Benedetti and Sarabia came to light after the publication of several audios in which the Former senator refers rudely to Petro’s right hand man. Furthermore, in one of the fragments you hear him say that he got 15 billion of pesos to finance the 2022 presidential campaign.