Diplomat Juan Fernández Trigo.
L. Ayllón / A. Rodríguez. 19/07/2018
Spanish government will ask Cuban authorities their agrement to appoint Ambassador in Havana to the diplomat Juan Fernández Trigo, The Diplomat learnt from sources.
Fernández Trigo was the representative of the Government of Mariano Rajoy in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, after the application of Article 155 of the Constitution, and one of its main tasks was to deal with the closure of the so-called Catalan ‘embassies’ abroad.
A 59-year-old diplomat, since 1986 Fernández Trigo has extensive experience in Ibero-American affairs and was the ‘number two’ at the Spanish Embassy in Cuba between 2004 and 2007. He was subsequently appointed Ambassador to Haiti, where he suffered serious injuries in the earthquake registered in January 2011 which seriously affected his official residence. Between November 2011 and November 2017 he was the head of the European Union delegation in Uruguay.
Once the Cuban government grants the agrément for Fernández Trigo, he will replace Juan José Buitrago, who was Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo, and who has been in Havana since April of last year.
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Cristina Pérez will take charge of the Embassy of Spain in Costa Rica
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On the other hand, the former director general of Sustainable Development Policies, Cristina Pérez Gutiérrez, who was relieved at the past Council of Ministers by Gabriel Ferrero, will be the next Ambassador to Costa Rica.
Cristina Pérez has held several positions throughout her professional career, the last of them in close relation with Latin America and with the policies of cooperation for development.
