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Mery Janneth Gutiérrez

Mery Janneth Gutiérrez (born 1 January 1971) is a lawyer specialized in contract law, specialist in management and ICT, as well as in insolvency regime appointed as Minister of ICT of Colombia on August 7, 2022.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She is currently serving as Manager of Programar Televisión and legal adviser.

Mery Janneth Gutiérrez
Minister of Information Technologies and Communications
In office
August 8, 2022 – September 4, 2022
PresidentGustavo Petro
Preceded byKaren Abudinen
Succeeded bySandra Urrutia
Personal details
Born
Mery Jannet Gutiérrez

(1971-01-01) January 1, 1971 (age 53)
EducationUniversidad Externado

Ministry of ICT

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In August 2022, she was designed[7][8] as ICT Minister[9][10] by Colombian President Gustavo Petro with the challenge to recover the $ 70.000 millions given as an advance to Unión Temporal Centros Poblados while Karen Abudinen was Ministry.[11][12]

However, she would not last long in that position, due to public statements issued by Daniel Coronell's, a Plural Comunicaciones shareholder, although her historic job for the media democratization. This, due to a lawsuit that Gutiérrez had allegedly filed to stop a controversial[13][14][15] public tender where only Plural Comunicaciones could participate, which finally benefited this Daniel Coronell's company, with the intervention of the former ICT Minister David Luna, despite its unconstitutionality, and the interest conflict denounced by Gutiérrez.[16]

Colombian Channel One

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In Colombia, over time there have been two private television channels: RCN Televisión and Caracol Televisión, owned by business families and managed with their own resources. Likewise, there is a third channel called Canal Uno, whose infrastructure, unlike the previous ones,[17] is financed from the national budget. Although it is a public infraestructure, its administration is the responsibility of private companies called Programadoras[18] in charge of generating content based on Colombian Laws and regulations. In this regard, the grant to manage public infrastructures must be supplied through bidding processes, a contractual modality where a normally plural number of bidders are presented with various proposals to opt for the administration of their contents.

Censorship to Programar Televisión

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After 2012 Programar Televisión was removed from any process related by the ANTV, despite the fact that the latter had requested an extension to continue providing its services started since 2003 in compliance with the requirements of the Law as stipulated in a complaint filed before the Superintendency by Programar Televisión attorney, Mery Jannet Gutiérrez.[19]

Controversies

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In 2017, the ICT Minister, David Luna, developed a tender to grant the Canal 1 in compliance with a new article included in the Development Plan of then President Juan Manuel Santos, which allowed the tender to grant his administration to be developed with a single proponent,[20] despite the fact that according to the Colombian Constitutional Court,[16] this should be carried out with a plural number of proponents, that is, with more than one; this was stated in a conditional constitutionality ruling issued by the high court, arguing that the original conditions of the bidding required a number of not less than four bidders and it had only been closed with one, against the required plurality. These facts, and the subsequent demand[21] for the tender by various bidders, questioned the legitimacy of the process that was finally granted to the only bidder who was allowed to appear, the journalist and businessman Daniel Coronell,[22] without paying attention to the alleged vices of illegality pointed out by various independent media.

References

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  1. ^ noticiasrcn.com (2022-08-20). "Presidente Petro sostendrá nombramiento de Mery Gutiérrez para MinTIC". Presidente Petro sostendrá nombramiento de Mery Gutiérrez para MinTIC (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  2. ^ "Presidente Petro posesionará a la ministra TIC este lunes". Caracol Radio (in Spanish). 2022-08-20. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  3. ^ Maldonado, Juan Camilo (2022-08-20). "Presidente Petro deja en firme nombramiento de MinTIC pese a cuestionamientos". Blu Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  4. ^ noticiasrcn.com (2022-08-20). "Presidente Petro sostendrá nombramiento de Mery Gutiérrez para MinTIC". Presidente Petro sostendrá nombramiento de Mery Gutiérrez para MinTIC (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  5. ^ "Presidente Petro posesionará a la ministra TIC este lunes". Caracol Radio (in Spanish). 2022-08-20. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  6. ^ Maldonado, Juan Camilo (2022-08-20). "Presidente Petro deja en firme nombramiento de MinTIC pese a cuestionamientos". Blu Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  7. ^ Semana (2022-08-08). "¿Quién es Mauricio Arroyave, esposo del ministro de Justicia Néstor Osuna?". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  8. ^ Semana (2022-08-07). "¿Quiénes son los ministros de Gustavo Petro? Solo falta nombrar al MinCiencias". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  9. ^ Semana (2022-08-18). ""Quiero dar testimonio de la calidad humana de Mery Gutiérrez": Roy Barreras sobre nueva minTIC". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  10. ^ Semana (2022-08-08). "Petro designa a Mery Gutiérrez como nueva ministra de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  11. ^ "Nunca más un niño o joven será bombardeado buscando internet en nuestro país: MinTIC". W Radio (in Spanish). 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  12. ^ Pulzo; Pulzo.com (2022-08-19). "Ministra de las TIC sí se posesionará: Gobierno de Gustavo Petro no echó marcha atrás". pulzo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  13. ^ Espectador, El (2020-03-24). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  14. ^ Espectador, El (2020-03-20). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  15. ^ S.A.S, Editorial La República. "Los tres reparos que existen sobre el Canal Uno". Diario La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  16. ^ a b "Licitación del Tercer Canal en Colombia, demanda de legalidad". Corte Constitucional Colombiana.
  17. ^ "Estudio histórico del Tercer Canal" (PDF). Universidad Javeriana.
  18. ^ "TERCER CANAL DE TV SU CALVARIO JURÍDICO Y POLÍTICO". www.andacol.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  19. ^ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2010-07-21). "Comunicado de Canal 3 en relación con el proceso de licitación del tercer canal". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  20. ^ S.A.S, Editorial La República. "Los tres reparos que existen sobre el Canal Uno". Diario La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  21. ^ "Denuncia de ilegalidad licitación canal uno por falta de pruralidad" (PDF). Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio de Colombia.
  22. ^ Espectador, El (2020-03-20). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-06.
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