In the act of official possession of Laura Camila Sarabia Torres as a new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia at the Palacio de Nariño, President Gustavo Petro defended the appointment of the young woman, after the multiple criticisms for the lack of experience for the position.
“We have a fight to fight for humanity, the climatic crisis produced by a greedy capitalwhich consumes more and more oil and carbon, and kills life and nature, and the cloud (Reference to the Internet) Privately appropriate to win more, that is, more greed added that it will launch hundreds of millions of workers in the street in all corners of the planet, so it will be hard, ” The president initially indicated.
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“But, in this, who we know how to fight for a better world we have to put our boots an army of life“, Petro stated directly to Laura Sarabia“A united humanity, a united Latin America, a world that knows how to defend – as in Stalingrad and as in Italy – democracy and freedom, And you young minister say that ‘Without experience’, who has experience in these struggles?! He has to face the task and bring the voice of Colombia“
In that sense, the president said that his work as a chancellor is a beautiful task, so Sarabia will have to “Forget about mirrors of comfortable and cheerful lives of the world of covesand enter this fundamental battle of humanity that I want in the year and a half that I have left, and whatever I left later, to free. Because I don’t get out of this fight. It is not called re -election, it is called staying in the fight for the life and freedom of human beings”
President Petro and Laura Sarabia (Chancellor) and Diego Guevara (Minhacienda)
Petro Vaticin Difficulties in foreign policy
Petro said that Colombia will have difficulties in their foreign relations due to world changes that, he said, they propitiate the emergence of “Monsters”
“In the case of Colombia’s foreign relations, neither more nor less see that what is going to be are difficulties. It is a world that enters a phase of deep changes“Petro said.
The new chancellor assumes the position, In replacement of Luis Gilberto Murillo in the middle of a diplomatic crisis with the United States For Petro’s decision to disallow last Sunday the entrance to the country of two planes sent by the US with deportees, claiming that, when they were handcuffed, they were not receiving a “dignified treatment”
By pointing out that the world is in a phase of changes, Petro It quoted the Italian philosopher and politic“Monsters appear. And monsters is what we are going to have, hopefully not within Colombian society but I fear that too“
The youngest chancellor in history
Sarabia was born in Bogotá and graduated as Professional in International Relations and Political Studies of the Nueva Granada Military University of Bogotá, In addition, it is Specialist in Political Marketing and Campaign Strategies and a mastery in political communication, from the Externado University of Colombia. He also carried out the National Defense Security Guidance Course at the Higher School of War.
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Sarabia becomes the youngest chancellor that the country has had in its historyshe was also a political advisor, legislative and communications advisor to the Congress of the Republic; She was director of the DaPre (Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic), Chief of Cabinet of the Government of President Petro and General Director of Social Prosperity.
Laura Sarabia has led the La Guajira Mission Strategy, a public-private Alliance that is part of the National Agreement and whose objective is the integral intervention of 81 communities of Manaure and Uribia, in which more than 3,600 Wayuu homes inhabit, among other projects.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello – Efe
Portfolio journalist
