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During the first term of President Álvaro Uribe, beginning in
2002, ministries were restructured. The President closed and
merged ministries to reduce bureaucracy while assigning duties of
suppressed ministries to Administrative Departments (i.e. the DAS, which is a form of an Administrative
Department).
Here's a list of the current 13 Ministries of the Executive
Branch of Colomba's government (in the correct Order of
Precedence):
- Ministerio de Interior y de Justicia
(Ministry of the Interior and Justice, official website at www.mij.gov.co)
- Merging of Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of Interior) and
Ministerio de Justicia (Ministry of Justice) to create a unified
Ministry. (Separated into two ministries in 2011. See below for details. Ed.)
- Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, official
website at www.minrelext.gov.co).
- Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público
(Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, official website at www.minhacienda.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Defensa Nacional (Ministry of National
Defense, official website at www.mindefensa.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development, official website at www.minagricultura.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Protección Social (Ministry of Social
Protection, official website at www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co)
- Merging of Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health) and
Ministerio del Trabajo (Ministry of Labor) to create a unified
ministry
- Ministerio de Minas y Energía (Ministry of Mines and Energy, official
website at www.minminas.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of
Commerce, Industry and Tourism, official website at www.mincomercio.gov.co)
- Renamed after absorbing several Departamentos Administrativos
(Administrative Departments)
- Ministerio de Educación Nacional (Ministry of National
Eduction, official website at www.mineducacion.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial (Ministry of the
Environment, Housing and Regional Development, official website at www.minambiente.gov.co)
- Absorbed the Ministerio de Desarrollo (Ministry of Development)
- Ministerio de Comunicaciones (Ministry of Communications, official website at www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Transporte (Minisitry of Transport, official
website at www.mintransporte.gov.co)
- Ministerio de Cultura (Ministry of Culture, official website at www.mincultura.gov.co).
For further and historic reference of the evolution of Ministries
in the Colombian government see wikipedia.
Source: Colombian
Presidency official website.
E. R., 3 August 2008
List of entities in the Executive Branch of Colombia can be
seen at wikipedia.
Please notice that this is list is based on the areas they cover
according to the Ministries that actually exist in Colombia. Also
this list includes many publicly owned companies, that may be in
the process of being offered by the government to private
investors.
E. R., 4 August 2008
The Colombian Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia (Ministry of Interior and
Justice) has again been separated into two Ministries:
- Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of Interior) (official
website)
- Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho (Ministry of Justice and Law) (official
website)
They were both established by Decree No. 2897 of August 11, 2011 (they were
split by Law 1444 of 2011).
Source:
http://www.minjusticia.gov.co/NewsDetail/403/1/MinisteriodeJusticiaydelDerecho
Esteban Rivera, 08 December 2011
image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 March 2009
The flag of the Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público
(Ministry of Finance and Public Credit) is yellow with the
Logotype of the letters M, H and C for "Ministerio",
"Hacienda", "Crédito".
The Ministry is in charge of designing, coordinating, regulating and executing
the economic, monetary and fiscal policies for Colombia in order to improve
economic and social development. website at www.minhacienda.gov.co.
Source: Photo at
CM&
TV news.
E. R., 22 March 2009
image by Eugene Ipavec, 1 June 2006
Yesterday I saw a broadcast on TV of Minister Sabas Pretelt de
La Vega, the current Minister of Interior and Justice. On the
background there was the flag of this Ministry. The flag is the
Colombian tricolor, with the Coat of Arms on the middle, bordered
by a red fringe, with the words REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA, in yellow,
capitals, inside the fringe, and on the bottom it reads
MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR Y DE JUSTICIA, also in yellow.
The official websites of this Ministry are: www.mininteriorjusticia.gov.co, www.mij.gov.co.
E. R., 1 June 2006
The Colombian Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia (Ministry of Interior and
Justice) has again been separated into two Ministries:
- Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of Interior) (official
website)
- Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho (Ministry of Justice and Law) (official
website)
They were both established by Decree No. 2897 of August 11, 2011 (they were
split by Law 1444 of 2011).
Source:
http://www.minjusticia.gov.co/NewsDetail/403/1/MinisteriodeJusticiaydelDerecho
Esteban Rivera, 08 December 2011
The flag of the Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho.
Image is a TV screenshot taken from CM& tv
news, on 7 December, 2011)
Esteban Rivera, 08 December 2011
image by Eugene Ipavec, 8 July 2006
I recently saw on the entrance of the Airport Jose Maria
Cordova in the Municipality of Rionegro (Department of
Antioquia), the flag of the Ministerio de Transporte (Ministry of
Transportation). The flag is a horizontal shape flag, all yellow
(the same shade as the Colombian national flag) and it has a
black diagonal line going from the bottom hoist to the top fly.
The width of this stripe is the same as the small circular logo.
Official website:www.mintrasnporte.gov.co.
E. R., 19 June 2006
Today on RCN TV news (http://www.noticiasrcn.com),
the current Vice Minister of Transportation gave an interview regarding recent
measures taken by the Ministry.
The new flag of the Ministry of
Transportation is a white horizontal flag with the logo (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/MinTransporte_%28Colombia%29_logo.png)
in the middle as seen here:
- (first flag from left to right):
https://www.mintransporte.gov.co/Publicaciones/Ministerio/Dependencias/info/mintransporte/media/img6998.jpg
(source:
https://www.mintransporte.gov.co/Publicaciones/Ministerio/Dependencias/viceministro_de_transporte)
- (first flag from left to right):
http://www.lapatria.com/sites/default/files/styles/620x/public/imagenprincipal/2016/Julio/cmr3xscxyae-uno.jpg
(source:
http://www.lapatria.com/nacional/el-manizaleno-alejandro-maya-se-posesiono-como-viceministro-de-transporte-294969)
Esteban Rivera, 30 October 2017
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of
Commerce, Industry and Tourism) was established in 2002, and its
functions were outlined by decree No. 210, of February 3, 2003.
It was emerged from the merger of the Ministerio de Comercio
Exterior (Ministry of External Trade) and the Ministerio de
Desarrollo Económico (Ministry of Economic Development).
The emblem of the Ministry of Economic Development, was designed
by Designer Dicken Castro, in 1968. The emblem can be found at www.proyectod.com.
E. R., 23 August 2008
image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 March 2011
The flag of the Ministerio de Protección Social is a horizontal white
flag, with the Coat of Arms of Colombia in the middle with the motto
"Libertad y Orden" in black letters, and below the inscription
"Ministerio de Protección Social" and below, "República de Colombia"
also in black.
Image is a screenshot of
Caracol TV news taken on January 25, 2010)
For further information please see:
Ministerio de
Protección Social (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 7 March 2011
"Archivo General de la Nación (English: General Archive of the Nation) is a
Colombian government agency ascribed to the Colombian Ministry of Culture
(official website:
http://www.mincultura.gov.co) charged with "conserving the historical
legacy, as well as recovering and circulating the documentary heritage of the
country". It is the head of the National System of Archives. The headquarters
are located in the city of Bogotá. It was formally established by Law 80 of
December 22, 1989 as "Archivo Nacional de Colombia" (English: National Archive
of Colombia) although it traces its origins as far back as 1826"
Sources:
http://www.archivogeneral.gov.co/Conozcanos/historia and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Archive_of_the_Nation_(Colombia)
The flag is a horizontal white background with the logo (http://www.archivogeneral.gov.co/sites/default/files/Logo-Principal-Color_4.png) in the middle, as seen here:
http://pacifista.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_9138.jpg
(source:
https://pacifista.co/juan-de-la-cruz-varela-la-primera-voz-campesina-del-archivo-general-de-la-nacion).
For additional information go to Archivo General (official website):
http://www.archivogeneral.gov.co
Esteban Rivera, 21 August 2018
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