Here’s how the subscription IKN Weekly, issue IKN173 last Sunday, broached the subject:
“President Santos has said that he’ll take his time in naming all changes to his 16 person cabinet, though one widely expected now is to see the current Interior Minister Renjifo moved to Mining and Energy Minister (he was once mining vice-minister there).”
Here’s the decent English language new service on the country, Colombia Reports, on the latest today:
“…Santos on Thursday announced he has appointed his interior minister to lead the Mining Ministry and has replaced the health minister.
Former Interior Minister Federico Renjifo, a close ally of the president but heavily criticized over the way he handled recent indigenous unrest in the southwest of Colombia, was moved to the country’s Mining and Energy Ministry…” continues here
So no surprises, either for the name named or for the lentitude of the Santos decision. Fact is, he can take all the time he wants as long as the secret talks with the FARC, so secret that everyone in Colombia is talking about them, continue to make all the headlines. And for the record, Renjifo is a decent enough choice as Mining Minister. Let’s just hope the changeover in team at the building doesn’t delay the paperworkings too long because it’s getting Peru-like in Colombian mining bureaucracy already and they haven’t even got any mines going yet.