Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro speaks in the course of the presentation of the ultimate report of the Fact Fee on the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan theater in Bogota, Colombia June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
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BOGOTA, June 30 (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro has picked Jose Antonio Ocampo to be finance minister in his authorities when he begins his time period in August, he stated on Thursday.
Ocampo, an skilled public servant who beforehand served because the minister of finance within the authorities of former President Ernesto Samper, amongst different positions, is at the moment a professor at Columbia College in america.
“Jose Antonio Ocampo might be our finance minister (to) construct a productive economic system and an economic system for all times,” Petro stated in a message on Twitter alongside a photograph of the 2 males standing facet by facet.
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