Eduardo González
The new ambassadors of Portugal and the Dominican Republic to Spain, José Augusto Duarte and Tony Raful Tejada, respectively, presented their Letters of Credence this Friday to the Director General of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Adrián Martín Couce, according to diplomatic sources informed The Diplomat.
José Augusto Duarte thus returns to the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid, where he was previously posted in 2005. Awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Order of Merit, he has held, among other positions, the positions of advisor to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and ambassador to Mozambique, China, and France. He was appointed ambassador to Spain by President Rebelo de Sousa on March 14.
For his part, Tony Raful Tejada presented his Letters of Credence barely 24 hours after his arrival in Spain. A historian, poet, essayist, and member of the Royal Dominican Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy of Language, he has previously served as Minister of Culture, President of the Central American Parliament, and ambassador to Italy, concurrently to Greece, Malta, San Marino, and Croatia.
