Lima—Derlis Palacio, an engineer who had been Ecuador’s minister of strategic areas, has been named to replace Galo Chiriboga as oil minister, ministry sources said October 8. Chiriboga resigned after 15 months on the job amid a reshuffling of ministers in Ecuador’s government following President Rafael Correa’s big victory in a late September referendum for a new constitution, a source at the Ecuadorean oil ministry said.
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