José Condungua Pacheco

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José Pachecho (r.) With the Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman .

José Condungua António Pacheco , short José Pacheco (born September 10, 1958 in Ampara, Búzi District , Sofala Province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican agricultural economist and politician ( FRELIMO ). Between 2010 and 2017 he was Minister of Agriculture and in December 2017 President Nyusi appointed him Foreign Minister of the country.

biography

education

José Pacheco was born on September 10th in the village of Ampara, Búzi District, Sofala Province. From 1971 to 1973 he attended elementary school in the nearby city of Beira . He later attended the agricultural school in Manica , which he left in 1978 with a degree as a technical agricultural engineer ( Engenheiro Técnico Agrário ). 1989 Pacheco studied at Wye College of the University of London , and later at the University of Minnesota (1992) and the University of Madison, Wisconsin (1994). He completed these studies with a diploma in the field of “Technology transfer for rural development”.

Administrative officer

At the same time, José Pacheco worked from 1981 to 1990 as provincial director for agriculture in the province of Zambézia . In 1990 he was promoted to National Director for Rural Development, at the same time he was on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for the Development of Local Industries ( Instituto Nacional do Desenvolvimento da Indústria Local , IDIL) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mozambican Grain Institute ( Instituto de Cereais de Moçambique ) .

Duties as minister and governor

In the first (democratic) cabinet under President Joaquim Alberto Chissano , Pacheco was appointed Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1995–1999). In 2000 he moved to the northern province of Cabo Delgado to work as provincial governor. Under President Armando Guebuza , he also worked as a minister in his cabinet, first as Interior Minister (2005–2010), then as Minister of Agriculture (2010–2015). Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique since 2015, also entrusted him with the responsibility for agriculture and food security ( Nyusi cabinet ). Luisa Meque is his deputy in the ministry,

During his time as Minister of the Interior, he is considered responsible for the fact that his predecessor, Almerino Manhenje, was arrested for corruption scandals. On the other hand, he is charged with the conclusion of the contract with the company Semlex, which is responsible for the production of ID cards and passports, but never complied with the agreed contractual provisions. During his tenure as Minister of Agriculture, the large-scale ProSavana project, which was heavily criticized by Mozambican civil society and foreign NGOs, gained momentum. As part of the project, promoted by the Mozambican government, Japan and Brazil, ten million hectares in the three provinces of Nampula , Niassa and Zambézia are to be leased to agricultural companies. Critics fear massive land grabbing and expropriations from small Mozambican farmers. Pacheco defended the project, presenting it as a necessary foreign investment and as beneficial to Mozambique's progress.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle in December 2017, President Nyusi dismissed Foreign Minister Oldemiro Balói and appointed Pachecho as his successor. Higino Francisco Marrule has been appointed the new Minister of Agriculture. Opposition media and foreign observers criticized Pachecho's transfer to the Foreign Ministry because he had no diplomatic talent and was unsuitable for the demanding task of the country's highest diplomat.

Tasks in the party

José Pacheco at a party event in Nampula ( Nampula Province )

At the 9th party congress of the ruling FRELIMO party in Quelimane , Pacheco was elected a member of the party's Comissão Política ( Politburo ) in 2006. Pachecho was re-elected at the 10th party conference in Cabo Delgado in 2012. At the 11th FRELIMO congress at the end of September 2017, Pacheco was not re-elected to the Politburo.

José Pacheco was FRELIMO's negotiator from 2012 to 2014 during the newly flared up and sometimes violent conflict between RENAMO and FRELIMO.

For the 2014 presidential elections , in which incumbent Armando Guebuza was no longer allowed to run, Pacheco was considered a candidate alongside the then Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina and the later elected Filipe Nyusi . Like the other two, he is considered to be closely related to Guebuza. In the internal party election, Nyusi was surprisingly elected. Analysis predicted his election based on Pacheco's long political experience.

Web links

Commons : José Pacheco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Boletim sobreo processo políticoem Moçambique . No. 57 . CIP, AWEPA, February 18, 2015 (Portuguese, digitized version ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 288 kB ; accessed on April 25, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c Adérito Caldeira: Nyusi mantém Pacheco no Governo, passa Tonela para Recursos Minerais e Energia, e nomeia académico para Agricultura. In: A Verdade. December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b José Pacheco explica-se sobre contestação internacional ao ProSavana. MMO Notícias, August 30, 2013, accessed April 2, 2015 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Anabela Lemos, Vanessa Cabanelas: Leaked ProSAVANA Master Plan confirms worst fears. In: Grain.org. JA! Justiça Ambiental / FOEMozambique, April 13, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ Timothy A. Wise: What Happened to the Biggest Land Grab in Africa? Searching for ProSavana in Mozambique. In: foodtank.com. December 20, 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Amos Zacarias Nampula: Mozambique's small farmers fear Brazilian-style agriculture. In: The Guardian. January 1, 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ PR nomeia Pacheco para ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros. In: O País. December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Joseph Hanlon: Four ministers dismissed. In: Club of Mozambique. December 13, 2017, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Nádia Issufo: Mozambique: Jose Pacheco tem o perfil ideal para chefe da diplomacia? In: Deutsche Welle. December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ As caras da Comissão Política. In: Jornal Notícias. October 2, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ Madalena Sampaio: Escolha de Filipe Nyusi é "triunfo da ala próxima de Guebuza". Deutsche Welle, March 3, 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 (Portuguese).
  12. ^ Nuno de Noronha: Pré-candidatos à sucessão de Guebuza são próximos do presidente moçambicano. Deutsche Welle, December 16, 2013, accessed April 2, 2015 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Pacheco, José Condungua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pacheco, José Condungua António (full name); Pacheco, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican agricultural economist and politician (FRELIMO)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ampara, Búzi District , Sofala Province , Portuguese East Africa