2023-04-26 19:42:43
This Wednesday in a ministerial shake-up, the Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, left her post and was replaced by Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, who was Secretary of Health of the Bogotá Mayor’s Office.
Although it had been said that Jaramillo was going to run for mayor of Bogotá, President Gustavo Petro’s decision changes that reality and puts him in charge of leading the transformation of the health system in the country.
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Profile of Guillermo Jaramillo, the new Ministry of Health
Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo is a native of the municipality of Líbano, Tolima. He has been governor of his native department twice in 1986-1987, and 2000-2003. He was also mayor of Ibagué in the 2016-2019 period.
Valentina Bonilla and Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
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His father Alfonso Jaramillo Salazar was Minister of Health, and thanks to him he started in politics in the Liberal Party. His mother, Hilda Martínez de Jaramillo, was also linked to politics as a congresswoman.
Like today’s former minister Corcho, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo combined his work as a doctor and his interests in politics for many years. The man from Tolima is a surgeon from the Universidad del Rosario. He also has specialization in pediatric cardiovascular surgery.
He began in the political world in 1978, as a Deputy to the Assembly of Tolima. Later he entered Congress as a Liberal representative. From there he came to the Governor’s office.
After leaving the Liberal party, where his family had been active, he arrived at the Democratic Pole, where he was very close to Gustavo Petro and Antonio Navarro.
Due to this closeness, Jaramillo was appointed as Secretary of Health of Bogotá in 2011 for the Mayor of Petro. Then, in 2013, he was appointed as Secretary of the Government.
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In 2014 he left that position to lead the ‘no’ to the recall of Petro as Mayor.
Jaramillo tried to run for mayor of Bogotá in 2014, but eventually withdrew from the race and later returned to Ibagué. In 2015, he ran for mayor of that city with the endorsement of the Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (Mais) and his brother, former Bogotá councilor and former senator Mauricio Jaramillo, ran for Tolima governorship for the Liberal Party.
Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
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At the time, Guillermo Alfonso told EL TIEMPO that he did not see “any impediment” for two brothers to seek the two highest political positions in Tolima and that his true interest is “to serve”, and he believes that his brother Mauricio had every right to be the next governor.
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