President Maria Consuelo Araujo Castro - Secretary of Social Integration of Bogotá ~
Updated: August 1, 2016 Maria Consuelo Araujo, Secretary of Social Integration of Bogota, vallenato is a policy with a long career in the public sector.
Her studied Finance and International Relations at the University Externado and made a specialization in Government, Management and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York.
Araújo, known popularly as the 'Conchi'- born in Valledupar in 1971 in a family of political tradition within the Liberal Party.
Her grandfather Santander Araújo was a tax inspector who became mayor of Valledupar in the decade of 40.
Her father Alvaro Araujo Noguera was manager of the Caja Agraria, Senator and Minister of Agriculture of President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen.
Her aunt Consuelo, known as 'the Cacica' and murdered in 2001 by the FARC- was director of the Vallenato Legend Festival for three decades and Minister of Culture of Andrés Pastrana until her husband Edgardo Maya was elected Attorney General.
Her uncle Jaime Araújo Noguera was also a senator and one of his uncles -Rodolfo Araujo Noguera is married to Elsa Palmera, the sister of Simon Trinidad.
The third generation of Araújo also followed the political vein. Her brother Alvaro Araujo Castro, convicted parapolítica was representative to the House by the Liberal Party and Senator Alas Equipo Colombia.
Her other brother, Sergio, is currently a candidate of the Democratic Centre for mayor of Valledupar.
Also, her cousin Jaime Araújo Rentería was judge of the Constitutional Court and the National Electoral Council, and another cousin Hernando Molina Araújo son of 'the Cacica'- was governor of Cesar and later convicted of parapolítica.
Araujo began her public career in Bogotá, as director of the Botanical Garden José Celestino Mutis during the mayorship of Enrique Penalosa and was responsible for the forestation of all Transmilenio, among other things.
Then she was appointed director of the District Institute for Recreation and Sport (IDRD) during the second mayor Antanas Mockus , where she had to face the cancellation of the 2002 South American Games.
Hence Alvaro Uribe took to the national stage. Upon being elected president in 2002, she named the 'Conchi' Minister of Culture, making it one of the youngest ministers in the history of Colombia.
During her four years in office , she urged the public library system and created the Film Law.
When Carolina Barco Isakson went ambassador to Washington at the beginning of the second period Uribe, Araujo became Chancellor.
However, its passage by the Palace of San Carlos only lasted six months: the 'Conchi' had to resign in February 2007 when her father and his brother opened their investigations for alleged links with para - politics.
Her father was released after precluyera the process by linking the kidnapping of Victor Ochoa Daza politician by Jorge 40 in 2002. His brother was eventually sentenced to 9 years and 3 months in prison for ties to paramilitary groups.
In 2011 the 'Conchi' was named president of Gran Colombia Gold, a Canadian mining company that operates in Segovia, Remedios and Zancudo (Antioquia) and Marmato (Caldas) after buying the assets of the liquidated Frontino mine and merge with the company Medoro Resources .
On the board of the mining -the main gold producer in the country- include Augusto Lopez, former president of Grupo Santo Domingo; Hernán Martínez, former Minister of Mines Alvaro Uribe; and Mario Pacheco, former president of Grupo Colpatria.
In February 2013 Gran Colombia Gold Lombardo Paredes appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of mining, centralizing it all managerial part.
Araujo is still the president, but her role was from that moment focused on relations with the government.
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