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Colombian Minister of Environment Resigns in the Midst of Protests by Peasants and Miners - Latino-News - the Hispanic Newspaper

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August 5, 2025 – Bogotá – EFE. Colombian Environment Minister Lena Estrada has resigned from her post in a context of intense social and environmental crisis. Her resignation takes place in the midst of protests by miners and peasants in Boyacá, who have been blocking roads to demand solutions to problems related to the delimitation of moors and better working conditions. President Gustavo Petro, who has appointed an interim minister, accepted t…

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BOGOTÁ (AP) — Farmers who farm in Colombia's highlands and coal miners are holding intermittent blockades on national highways against environmental policies implemented by the leftist government of Gustavo Petro, which they believe are detrimental to…

·Calhoun, United States
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August 5, 2025 – Bogotá – EFE. Colombian Environment Minister Lena Estrada has resigned from her post in a context of intense social and environmental crisis. Her resignation takes place in the midst of protests by miners and peasants in Boyacá, who have been blocking roads to demand solutions to problems related to the delimitation of moors and better working conditions. President Gustavo Petro, who has appointed an interim minister, accepted t…

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Associated Press BOGOTA (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Environment and Sustainable Development Minister Lena Yanina Estrada, who became the country's first Indigenous person to hold the post. While no further details were released, the resignation comes as the government grapples with a series of protests by miners and farmers. Estrada was appointed to the post in February as part of a Cabinet ove…

·Chicago, United States
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The first indigenous minister in the history of Colombia, Lena Estrada, has barely lasted a semester at the head of the portfolio of Environment and Sustainable Development. President Gustavo Petro has decided to relieve her in her umpteenth shake of Cabinet, despite the support of the indigenous movement, and has decided that she should take her place – for the time being as manager – Irene Vélez, the Prime Minister of Mines of her government a…

·Spain
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The President of the Republic signed Decree 0877, on Tuesday, August 5, with which the official's departure was officialized: that only lasted five months in office after Susana Muhamad's resignation from this portfolio; and confirmed the commission to today's director of the Anla

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The Minister of Environment of Colombia, Lena Estrada, resigned in the midst of the crisis caused by the blockades of miners and peasants in Boyacá (center), who demand solutions on the delimitation of moors and labor improvements.President Gustavo Petro accepted the resignation of Estrada, presented last August 1, and temporarily commissioned, by a decree, Irene Vélez, current director of the National Authority of Environmental Licensing (ANLA)…

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La Silla Vacía broke the news in on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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