Mineco
Antonio Romero, Deputy Minister of Investment and Competition of the Ministry of Economy (Mineco), left office this Monday, March 31 and instead will assume Valeria Prado current Mancilla Vice Minister of Registry Affairs.
Antonio Romero Vice Minister of Investment and Competition of the Ministry of Economy leaves the charge this Monday, March 31. (Free Press Photo: Juan Diego González)
The Deputy Minister of Investment and Competition Antonio Romero, presented his resignation to the position which became effective on March 31, by arguing personal and family reasons, was known by sources of that portfolio.
The position was occupied since the beginning of the current administration of the Bernardo Arévalo government and was commissioned to advance in the approval of the then competition bill, which was finally approved by the Congress of the Republic in November 2024, so there is a preventory period for its validity.
The official renounces the Mineco portfolio in the midst of the process of implementing the law for the election of directors, holder and substitute for the first board of the Superintendence of Competition that must be integrated this year. Then the selection of the new Superintendent will come.
At the head of the management of Gabriela García de Quinn as head of the Mineco, there are constant relay of vice ministers, specifically, in the administrative area as well as directors of various areas.
At the beginning of his management, Adrián Zapata Alamilla was appointed as Administrative and Financial Vice Minister, who went to the Vice Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing; And then Blanca Margarita Ibañez Cabrera former head of the Technical Directorate of the Budget who left the position last December. At the beginning of the year, Carlos Antonio Morales Maza was appointed in that position.
They remove directors
Also, it was known that two other directors were dismissed, at the end of March.
The competition director Jorge Miguel Castillo and administrative director María Beatriz Gilardi Matus, who were notified of their dismissal, met on Monday. A group of advisors who were assigned to the Vice Ministry of Investment and Competition were also dismissed.
In December 2024 Sergio López was dismissed as head of the Directorate of Commerce and Investment Services (Disercomi) and Francis Garnica of the National Competitiveness Program (Pronacom).