The Diplomat
The new Ambassador of Bolivia to Spain, Nardy Suxo Iturry, yesterday handed over her Copies of Letters of Credence to the second Ambassadors’ introducer, María Sebastián de Erice. With this act, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the new Bolivian representative will be able to start her activity in our country while waiting to present her Letters of Credence before the King.
Nardy Suxo was Minister of Transparency and Fight against Corruption and one of the closest collaborators of former President Evo Morales. With her appointment, which was approved last February by the Bolivian Chamber of Senators, the diplomatic crisis unleashed at the end of December 2019 between Bolivia and Spain, during the provisional government of Jeanine Áñez, which caused that, for several months, there were no ambassadors either in Madrid or in La Paz, was formally closed. The crisis began after the expulsion of two Spanish diplomats stationed in the Bolivian capital due to an incident at the residence of the Mexican ambassador in La Paz, followed by the expulsion of three members of the Bolivian Embassy in Madrid.
Following the election of Luis Arce as president of Bolivia and the return to power of Evo Morales’ Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Spain accelerated the normalization of bilateral relations and, in November, sent an unusual delegation to the inauguration of the new president, consisting of the King, the then second vice-president, Pablo Iglesias, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzalez Laya.
Nardy Suxo was one of the closest collaborators of former President Morales after her appointment, in 2006, as Deputy Minister of Transparency and Fight against Corruption, an office that later became a Ministry. She remained there for nine years, until 2015, when she was assigned as permanent representative ambassador to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva. After being nominated, in 2018, by the Bolivian Government for judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), in June 2019 she was appointed ambassador to Austria, a position in which she only served five months, since in November she was dismissed by the Áñez Government.
