Colombia Finance Minister Resigns

Colombia’s finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla has resigned, local media reports, and is awaiting a decision from President Alvaro Uribe. According to Caracol radio, the former minister offered Uribe the names of presidential advisor Oscar Iván Zuluaga and Roberto Steiner, Colombia’s representative at the IMF, as possible replacements. Carrasquilla became finance minister in 2003 but last year signaled his intention to step down at year end for personal reasons.