Colombia News | Colombia Reports
  • News
    • General
    • Analysis
    • War and peace
    • Elections
    • Economy
    • Culture
    • Sports
    • Science and Tech
  • Travel
    • General
    • Bogota
    • Medellin
    • Cali
    • Cartagena
    • Antioquia
    • Caribbean
    • Pacific
    • Coffee region
    • Amazon
    • Southwest Colombia
    • Northeast Colombia
    • Central Colombia
  • Data
    • Economy
    • Crime and security
    • War and peace
    • Development
    • Cities
    • Regions
    • Provinces
  • Profiles
    • Organized crime
    • Politics
    • Armed conflict
    • Economy
    • Sports
  • Lite
  • Opinion
  • About us
  • Support us
  • Contact Us
  • Intelligence
  • Advertising
  • Newsletter
Colombia News | Colombia Reports
  • News
    • General
    • Analysis
    • War and peace
    • Elections
    • Economy
    • Culture
    • Sports
    • Science and Tech
  • Travel
    • General
    • Bogota
    • Medellin
    • Cali
    • Cartagena
    • Antioquia
    • Caribbean
    • Pacific
    • Coffee region
    • Amazon
    • Southwest Colombia
    • Northeast Colombia
    • Central Colombia
  • Data
    • Economy
    • Crime and security
    • War and peace
    • Development
    • Cities
    • Regions
    • Provinces
  • Profiles
    • Organized crime
    • Politics
    • Armed conflict
    • Economy
    • Sports
  • Lite
  • Opinion
(Photo: President's Office)
News

Colombia’s entire cabinet resigns for 2nd time in year

by Adriaan Alsema September 2, 2013

The entire cabinet of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos resigned on Monday as the government is facing the fiercest anti-government protests in recent history and is less than a year away from the 2014 elections.

The mass resignation was announced in a press release on the president’s website, who stressed that in spite of their resignation, all ministers, high commissioners and secretaries “expressed their full support to the president.”

“The members of the ministers’ council made their positions available to the president so he has all freedom to make the changes he thinks are pertinent,” the press release said.

According to newspaper El Tiempo, the entire executive staff of the president consists of 30 posts.

The same newspaper said that the point of the mass resignation is to show that the ministers are taking responsibility for a major crisis caused by an agrarian revolt that left at least seven dead, injured hundreds and forced the militarization of Bogota last week.

MORE: Who In Colombia Is Striking Against The Government And Why?

This is the second such mass resignation in a little over a year; in August last year when the government was celebrating the end of its second year in office, the whole cabinet also resigned.

MORE: Colombia’s Entire Cabinet Unexpectedly Resigns

The possibility of a mass resignation was anticipated by economic newspaper La Republica, which last month reported Santos may sack five of his ministers.

Sources

  • Comunicado (President’s Office)
  • Ministros en pleno presentaron su renuncia a Juan Manuel Santos (El Espectador)
  • Los 16 ministros de Santos presentan su renuncia protocolaria (El Tiempo)
executive orderJuan Manuel Santos

Trending

  • Colombia’s defense minister dies of COVID

  • Colombia’s corporate media taking part in possibly illegal intelligence operations

  • Far-right Duque supporters say ‘we will finish’ one of Colombia’s worst massacres

Weekly interviews and news updates

Related articles

  • Key ministers rumored to resign from Colombia’s cabinet

  • Colombia’s opposition seeks referendum to remove Duque from office

  • MINGA! | Part 3: Colombia’s indigenous vs authoritarianism

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • RSS

@2008-2019 - Colombia Reports. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by Digitale Zaken and Parrolabs


Back To Top