Televised Colombian Cabinet Meeting Descends Into Rancor, Tears
(Bloomberg) -- Colombia's first-ever televised cabinet meeting descended into acrimony as President Gustavo Petro's ministers traded barbs and aired personal grievances.
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Petro arranged for the Tuesday evening gathering to be webcast to make Colombia's democracy more transparent, and said that most such events would be broadcast in future.
After Petro had spent more than an hour questioning his housing and defense ministers on unfinished projects, participation was opened to the group and some of his ministers began attacking one another.
Vice President Francia Márquez said the newly-named Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia had treated her with disrespect and said she disagreed with the appointment of scandal-plagued Armando Benedetti as chief of staff.
Márquez also complained about the various graft scandals that have roiled the administration.
'It pains me that in this government that I helped elect there are so many acts of corruption,' Márquez said.
Environment Minister Susana Muhamad teared up as she joined in the attacks on Benedetti.
'As a feminist, I cannot sit at the same table as Armando Benedetti,' she said, in apparent reference to an allegation of domestic violence made against the cabinet chief.
Benedetti studied his phone while he was being criticized.
Petro recently reshuffled his cabinet as his administration struggles to rein in the fiscal deficit following lower-than-expected tax revenue amid weak economic growth.
State TV eventually cut off the transmission to show a football match between the Colombian and Paraguayan youth teams.
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