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between 2010 and 2012, and as High Presidential Adviser for Competitiveness and the Regions since 2008. during the administration of President

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. On 25 May 2012, President Santos designated Peñaloza to succeed Germán Cardona Gutiérrez as

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of Colombia; he was sworn in on 28 May by President Santos in a ceremony at the

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