Luis Ayllón
María Salcedo, currently director of the Cabinet of the State Secretary for Ibero-America, the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, Juan Fernández-Trigo, will take over as the second head of the Spanish Embassy in Mexico, The Diplomat has learned from diplomatic sources.
The post of ‘number two’ in Mexico was one of the four ‘asterisked’ posts in this year’s call for diplomatic posts abroad, which is in the process of being filled. The posts ‘with an asterisk’ are those which, because they are considered to be of special sensitivity for Spanish foreign policy, are appointed directly by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, without the need to wait for the opinion of the Board of the Diplomatic Career.
The Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs has already informed the members of the Board of the people who have been chosen for these posts, so that he can make a proposal for the distribution of the remaining 113 posts in the ‘Bombo’, as the allocation of new posts abroad is known in diplomatic jargon.
Thus, the second post at the embassy in Cuba will be occupied by Eduardo Sánchez Moreno, who currently holds the same post at the embassy in Ireland.
Ricardo Santos, who is currently assigned to the Spanish embassy in the United States, will go to Caracas as ‘number two’.
Finally, as deputy permanent representative to the United Nations agencies in Geneva, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has chosen Clara Cabrera, who is currently the deputy director of his Cabinet.
