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Ministry Of Commerce, Industry And Tourism
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism () or MCIT, is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia concerned with promoting economic growth In economics, economic growth is an increase in the quantity and quality of the economic goods and Service (economics), services that a society Production (economics), produces. It can be measured as the increase in the inflation-adjusted Outp ... though trade, tourism and industrial growth. List ministers of commerce, industry and tourism References Economy of Colombia Tourism in Colombia Colombia, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Colombia, Commerce, Industry and Tourism 2002 establishments in Colombia Industry in Colombia {{Colombia-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diario Oficial (Colombia)
The ''Diario Oficial'' is the official journal of the Government of Colombia that contains the laws, decrees, acts, and most pertinent documents and public notices of the President, Congress, and government agencies of Colombia. It is a daily (except Public holidays in Colombia, holidays) publication, and was established on 28 April 1864 by means of an executive decree issued by President of Colombia, President Manuel Murillo Toro; its first issue appeared on 30 April 1864, publishing the legal information of the day before. The ''Diario Oficial'' is printed by the National Printing Office of Colombia, National Printing Office. References Publications established in 1864 Newspapers published in Colombia Government gazettes Government of Colombia Ministry of the Interior (Colombia) {{Colombia-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Colombia
The Government of Colombia is a republic with separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches. Its legislature has a congress, its judiciary has a supreme court, and its executive branch has a president. The citizens of Colombia cast votes concerning their government, and they employ a ''public'' sector office for an inspector general to oversee the public interface of the government. This safeguards the public, and guarantees the human rights spelled out in the '' Constitution of 1991'', which provides the framework for a welfare state and a unitary republic. Colombia has "control institutions" that mix government and public officials, who work alongside one another. For example, the public's inspector general works closely with the government's controller general, whose job it is to ensure governmental fiscal responsibility. An independent Ombudsman deals with maladministration complaints and functions. Executive The executive branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Carlos Reyes
Luis Carlos Reyes Hernández (born May 4, 1984) is a Colombian economist, professor, researcher and politician who has served Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism from 2024 to 2025 under President Gustavo Petro. He served as Director of the National Tax and Customs Directorate from 2022 to 2024. Reyes is the co-founder and first director of the Fiscal Observatory of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has served as an economist at the Federal Communications Commission, visiting assistant professor at Grand Valley State University in the United States, and assistant professor and associate professor at Javeriana University. He has been a columnist for the newspaper El Espectador and a member of the Advisory Committee of the ICFES Research Program. Reyes has worked as an economic researcher most of his life. As an economist, Reyes is noted for his emphasis on economic development, public economics, and applied microeconomics. His academic research has been published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the Pink tide, first left-wing president in the History of Colombia, recent history of Colombia. At 17 years old, Petro joined the guerrilla group 19th of April Movement (M-19). Seventeen years later it evolved into the M-19 Democratic Alliance, a political party. Petro also served as a councilman in Zipaquirá. He was arrested in 1985 and tortured by the army for his affiliation with the M-19. After the peace process between the Colombian government and the M-19, he was released and then elected to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, Chamber of Representatives in the 1991 Colombian parliamentary election. Some years later, he was elected to the Colombian Senate as a member of the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) party following the 2006 Colombian parliamentary election, where he secured the second-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Duque
Iván Duque Márquez (; born 1 August 1976) is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor, former president and powerful senator Álvaro Uribe, he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group. After Duque's term came to an end, he was succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022, after Petro won the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election. Despite personally opposing the peace agreement with the FARC, Duque did not cancel it when in office. During the Venezuelan refugee crisis, Duque had an open door policy toward Venezuelans, allowing them to settle in the country and allowing around 1.7 million refugees to gain protected status in Venezu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Restrepo Abondano
José Manuel Restrepo Abondano (born 1969) is a Colombian academic, economist, journalist and politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit from 3 May 2021 to 7 August 2022, he also served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia since 7 August 2018 until 3 May 2021. Education José Manuel Restrepo Abondano was born in 1969 and grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. He attended the all boys Campestre Gymnasium school, an all-male conservative school in the Orquideas district of Bogotá. He graduated from the Del Rosario University in 1994 and completed a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1998. He completed a Postgraduate Degree in Finance and Executive Management from the Rosario University in 2004 and a PhD in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath in 2015. Professional career Restrepo started his career working as an advisor to the Economic Commission (committee) of the Congress of the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen
Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen (born 30 August 1953) is an Industrial Engineer and Colombian politician who served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Álvarez-Correa is credited as the second woman to hold this post in Colombian history. Previously, Álvarez-Correa served as the 12th Minister of Transport of Colombia. Career On 28 August 2012, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced his decision to appoint Álvarez-Correa as Minister of Transport of Colombia. She was sworn in on 3 September at a ceremony at the Palace of Nariño. On August 11, 2014, Álvarez-Correa assumed the role of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. Personal life Cecilia was born on 30 August 1953 in Ciénaga, Magdalena, the youngest of eight children to the Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Rojas Arroyo
Santiago Rojas Arroyo is the 4th and current Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Before his appointment, Rojas, a lawyer from the Pontifical Xavierian University The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (English: Xavierian Pontifical University) is a private university in Colombia founded in 1623. It is one of the oldest and most traditional Colombian universities, directed by the Society of Jesus, with its ..., served as president of the Bank of Foreign Trade of Colombia, Bancóldex, and had previously served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, as Director of the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs of Colombia (DIAN), and as Director of the Foreign Trade Institute of Colombia (Incomex). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rojas Arroyo, Santiago Date of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana alumni Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by training and a journalist by trade, Santos is a member of the wealthy and influential Santos family, who from 1913 to 2007 were the majority shareholders of ''El Tiempo (Colombia), El Tiempo'', Colombia's newspaper of record. In 1991, Santos was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia, Minister of Foreign Trade. In 2000, he was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia, Minister of Finance and Public Credit. Santos rose to prominence during the administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who was elected in 2002. In 2005, Santos co-founded and led the Social Party of National Unity (Party of the U), a liberal-conservative party coalition th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Díaz-Granados Guida
Sergio Díaz-Granados Guida (born 3 October 1968) is a Colombian lawyer specialized in Government and Finance who graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He holds graduate degrees in Public Management from INAP (Spain) and Constitutional Rights from the University of Salamanca. Currently, he serves as the Executive President of CAF, Development Bank of Latin America. Díaz-Granados has had a notable career in public service. He served as the 3rd Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. Prior to this role, he held the positions of Deputy Minister of Industrial Development, Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (2002-2006), Deputy in the Magdalena Departmental Assembly (1998-2000), and Councilman in the Santa Marta City Council (1995-1997). He has been previously affiliated with the Colombian Liberal Party, but is now a member of the U Party where he served as General Secretary and President. Career Early career Between 1995 and 1997, Dí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Guillermo Plata Páez
Luis Guillermo Plata Páez is a Colombian diplomat, business leader and entrepreneur, graduated from Harvard Business School (1998), with wide experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. In February 2021, he was appointed by President Iván Duque Márquez Ambassador of Colombia to Spain. He was Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (2007–2010) leading the country to record growth in exports, foreign direct investment and tourism. He was Colombia's ''Covid-19 Manager'' (2020) playing a critical role in the country's preparedness and early response to the pandemic, Founder and President of ProBogotá (2014–2018) and President of ProExport (2002–2006), Colombia's promotion agency. Biography Luis Guillermo Plata has a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Arizona (1991) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1998). He began his career in the Colombian public service in the early 1990s in the Colombian Embassy's Trade Office in Japan. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010. Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. He held offices in the Empresas Públicas de Medellín, Public Enterprises of Medellín and in the Ministry of Labour (Colombia), Ministry of Labor and was the director of the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (1980–1982). He became the Mayor of Medellín in October 1982. He was a senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally the Governor of Antioquia State, Antioquia between 1995 and 1997 before being elected President of Colombia in 2002. Following his 2002 election, Uribe led an all-out military offensive against leftist guerrilla groups such as the FARC and the National Liberation Army (Colombia), ELN with funding and backing from the Clinton and Bush administrations in the form of a US$2.8 billion direct foreign aid p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
