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After two months of stating that “she had fulfilled her mission in the political portfolio,” the outgoing Minister of the Interior returns to the UN headquarters in Switzerland, a position she held from 2010 to 2013.
Last September, the outgoing minister said that she had fulfilled her mission in the political portfolio and that she wanted to return to the diplomatic service. After a few months, Arango will arrive at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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After wishing it, Alicia Arango returns to the diplomatic service, representing Colombia at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. He comes to replace Adriana Mendoza, who was transferred to Finland, despite the fact that the Attorney General has a preliminary investigation for spending personal expenses such as representation expenses.
For the outgoing Minister of the Interior, reaching the Swiss cold is not a problem, since between 2010 and 2013 she served as ambassador in Geneva, where her management in terms of labor rights of Colombians was highlighted. Due to her knowledge on the subject, she was called by the elected Iván Duque to join his cabinet as Minister of Labor.
From there, for example, he managed to get the International Labor Organization (ILO) to remove Colombia from the List of Standards Application as a country that did not fully comply with all the recommendations in labor terms, in relation to human trafficking and the forced labor. And in his passage through that portfolio, his leadership in the definition of the minimum wages for 2019 and 2020 was highlighted.
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However, beyond his diplomatic experience, Arango is recognized as a staunch Uribista and was considered the person closest to former President Álvaro Uribe of Duque’s cabinet.
His relationship with the former senator and former governor began at the beginning of this century, after having held public positions at the regional and national level, as assistant director of the then Coldeportes, advisor to the Ministry of Education, delegate of the Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) and director of the Institute of Recreation and Sports (IDR) in the first Mayor’s Office of Ernesto Peñalosa.
Since then, his preponderance in Uribismo has been on an upward scale, accompanying Uribe in his presidential campaign in 2002 and, once elected, became his private secretary and his right-hand man during his two terms. After the change that the Santos administration was to signify, Arango was appointed by him to be Minister to the United Nations in Geneva, a position he held between 2010 and 2013.
However, the break between Uribe and Santos led her to lead the nascent party of her political boss, the Democratic Center, which in the last parliamentary elections became the largest bench in Congress and elected president. According to what you said The viewer Once her transfer from the Ministry of Labor to the Ministry of the Interior became known, she played a key role in Duque’s aspiration in the campaign.
In Geneva, Arango will have the tough task of responding to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of social leaders in the country, as well as the escalation of the massacres, which number 80, according to Indepaz.
