The Diplomat
The new ambassador of Panama in Spain, Ithzel Anays Patiño de Villarreal, has presented the Style Copies of her Credential Letters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before the second introducer of ambassadors, Carlos Lucini.
Ithzel Patiño will fill the vacancy left at the head of the Embassy by the departure of Allen Jackson Sellers, who was dismissed last summer from the position of ambassador, less than a year after his appointment and several months after there had been a replacement. in the Foreign Ministry of Panama, which Janaina Tewaney currently occupies.
The new ambassador, with a degree in International Relations and Political Science, and with a long career as a diplomat, was ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia since 2021.
Previously, she was assigned to the Panama missions at the United Nations, in New York; In Paraguay; Colombia and Bolivia, and she held, at various stages, various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was, among other things, secretary general and head of the minister’s Cabinet.
