The Diplomat
The new Peruvian ambassador to Spain, Luis Carlos Antonio Ibérico Núñez, has presented the Copies of his Letters of Credence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Luis Ibérico went to the Ministry on the 2nd of this month, where he was received by the new ambassador introducer, Adrián Martín Couce, who had just assumed his position as head of Protocol, replacing María Sebastián de Erice.
The new ambassador fills the vacancy left by Walter Gutiérrez, who resigned from the position last May, just one year after being appointed by the Government of Dina Boluarte.
Ibérico Núñez will be the third Peruvian ambassador to Spain, since the previous president, Pedro Castillo, appointed Óscar José Ricardo Maúrtua de Romaña to the post in June 2022. Maúrtua was only in office for seven months, since, after Castillo’s failed ‘self-coup’ in December 2022, he resigned and a month later he was dismissed by Dina Boluarte.
The new ambassador is 65 years old, worked as a journalist and is a member of the Alianza para el Progreso (APP) party. A congressman for four terms, from July 2015 to July 2016 he was president of the Legislative Branch. Between 2016 and 2018 he was Peru’s ambassador to Italy, concurrently in Cyprus, San Marino and the multilateral organizations FAO, WFP and IFAD. Until shortly before his appointment he was an advisor to the former president of Congress until recently, Alejandro Soto.
