The cabinet of elected president, Gustavo Petro, It is taking more and more shape as the day of taking office, next August 7, approaches. The inauguration of the legislature is also approaching and will take place on July 20.
(Read: The support with which Petro arrives in Congress to pass his reforms).
This would be the first step to officially announce the bills that the president has as a priority. Among them, the tax reform that could be filed that same day before Congress.
Now, Petro also spoke of gender parity in his cabinet. In the last hours she named three women who will have important roles in the government.
One of them is Eleanor Zalabata Torres, who will be the next ambassador to the United Nations in New York. She is an Arhuaca social leader with studies in medicine and politics. She is also a writer, chronicler and defender of human rights.
Born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in an Arhuac community. She is also a member of the Tayrona Indigenous Confederation.
Eleanor Zalabata
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Also, he appointed Maria Patricia Tobon Yagari Embera lawyer and Truth Commissioner, as director of the Victims Unit. She has a specialization in constitutional law and has also documented the violation of human rights in indigenous territories affected by the conflict. She has also been interested in historical discrimination against ethnic peoples.
Maria Patricia Tobon Yagari
Truth Commission
He has experience in coordinating prior consultation processes, construction of regulatory instruments and public policies for indigenous peoples. Along with this, she has served as a consultant and advisor in different organizational processes before human rights defenders, United Nations agencies and international organizations.
Finally, Petro chose Giovanni Yule, sociologist, to head the Land Restitution Unit. He is a Nasa leader and senior adviser to the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca. He is part of the Social Indigenous Alternative Movement and, in addition, has been governor of the Huellas reservation in Caloto.
(Also: Director of the Dian chosen by Petro explains tax details).
Giovanny Yule
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