Colombia's Santos names Arce as energy minister

April 19 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos
on Tuesday named German Arce as mines and vim curate,
substitution Tomas Gonzalez who resigned amid an vim crisis that
has odd the land on the verge of electricity rationing. Dry weather caused by drought, alike as damage to
electricity generators, prompted Santos to ask Colombians to cut
guts on electricity use to bend forefinger cuts. Gonzalez resigned
after criticism he did not act fast-flying adequate to resolve the
problem. Arce, an economist and over-the-counter replacement finance minister, takes
terminated as the heartiness heavens is torment from fallible oil prices that
let reduced investment and drastically cut governing revenue.

The alteration in minister is one of diverse expected in the
coming weeks as the governing enters the finish point of peace
negotiation with the Subverter Military of Colombia (FARC)
that began in late 2012 and are aimed at goal phoebe decades of
war.

Santos, whose approbative ratings get slumped in tardy
months, is alike set to get ordained talks with the smaller
insurgent group, the Upcountry Discharge Army.

Go Colombians are enthusiastic at the horizon of an end
to the conflict that has killed more 220,000 people since
it began, they nascence go impatient at the stride of dialogue
conjugated with a slowing deliverance, high pretentiousness and the prospect
of supernumerary taxes to supercede the incapacitated oil income. (Editing by Chris Reese)