Until this Thursday, Andrés Escobar will be the manager of the Bogotá Metro Company. This was confirmed by Mayor Claudia López in an interview with Blue Radio.
According to López, “In agreement with the National Government, we are going to make this change.”
Minutes later, the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá confirmed that, this Thursday, Escobar will present his resignation letter to the Metro board of directors. Then, the profile evaluation for your position will begin.
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Apparently, the decision is part of a great change that the Metro Company will undergo. López assured that the results of a consultancy to optimize the Metro suggest that the company’s vision has to be much more regional. “Not only will the management change, they will change various positions in the structure,” said López.
Minutes after his statements, López said goodbye to Escobar through a trill: “All my gratitude and appreciation to Andrés Escobar @bienconcreto for his work to carry out the first line of the Bogotá Metro. In agreement with the national government and the board has decided to make a change in the management and structure of the company “.
All my gratitude and appreciation to Andrés Escobar @bienconcreto for his work to carry out the first line of the Bogotá Metro.
In agreement with the national government and the board we have decided to make a change in the management and structure of the company @MetroBogota. pic.twitter.com/3ESZXaWVmz
– Claudia López ???? (@ClaudiaLopez) December 9, 2020
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Former mayor Enrique Peñalosa also reacted to the news: “Now that Andrés Escobar is leaving the Metro management, I thank him as a Bogota native for a formidable job. Today Bogotá has a contracted Metro, which will generate tens of thousands of jobs in its construction to begin with. And then it will help improve mobility and save time. ”
Now that Andrés Escobar is leaving the management of the Metro, I thank him as a Bogota native for a formidable job. Today Bogotá has a contracted Metro, which to begin with, will generate tens of thousands of jobs in its construction. And then it will help improve mobility and save time
– Enrique Peñalosa (@EnriquePenalosa) December 9, 2020
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Andrés Escobar was manager of the Metro Company since January 2017 and is the man behind the structuring of the First Line.
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“Since 1993 I have been linked to the District at various times. I was in the private sector, managing a construction company, when Peñalosa won the mayoralty. Then he told me: ‘Andrés, what do you want to do?’ I said: ‘Absolutely nothing, I’m tired , I already did what I had to do, I feel like repeating myself. ” After the year started, he called me again, and that afternoon Mauricio Cárdenas, the Finance Minister called me; they told me: ‘The President and the mayor are looking for a person to manage the subway, who is able to carry it out, we have brought them several names and there has been no agreement, until theirs appeared‘. When the reason is from the President, things changed and they made me think, I spent two nights without sleeping, in the end I said “ready.” It was a big challenge and there are people who like challenges, “Escobar said. in an interview with EL TIEMPO that explored the profile of the first manager of the Bogotá Metro Company.
(To continue reading: This was the last column Andrés Escobar published in EL TIEMPO)
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