Jhenifer María Sindei Mojica Flórez is a Colombian

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and

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. On May 1, 2023, she assumed the position of

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in the administration of Gustavo Petro. Mojica had been working as director of Ethnic Affairs of the Land Restitution Unit in the same government and led the team to link up with the previous government in the area of

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Career

Mojica is a lawyer from the

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, specializing in procedural law. She has dedicated part of her career to the defense of human rights, particularly the protection of ethical and peasant populations. Mojica was the founder of the Corporation for the Protection and Development of Rural Territories (PRODETER). Within her performance as a lawyer, she was deputy director of the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ) and was part of various processes with the Association of Arhuaco Authorities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and with the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth. Mojica was part of the team that designed the Victims and Land Restitution Law. Mojica was part of the programmatic team of Gustavo Petro's presidential campaign in 2022, and came to the project because of his closeness to Daniel Rojas, a trusted man of the president who was named president of the SAE and had led the government splicing team.

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