The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has given ‘green light’ to the appointment of more than a hundred posts abroad, including the Second Heads of the Spanish Embassies in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Japan, Algeria and the Vatican.
The resolution of the call for posts, known in diplomatic jargon as ‘el Bombo’, will be published next week in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and those chosen will take up their posts in August.
As The Diplomat reported, Albares had reserved the direct appointment, without waiting for the opinion of the Diplomatic Career Board, of the ‘number two’ in Mexico City, Havana and Caracas, as well as the deputy permanent representative to the UN in Geneva. María Salcedo, current director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Ibero-America, the Caribbean and Spanish in the World, will go to Mexico; Eduardo Sánchez Moreno, who currently holds the same post at the Embassy in Ireland, will go to Havana; Ricardo Santos, currently assigned to the Spanish Embassy in the United States, will go to Caracas; and Cara Cabrera, current deputy director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will go to Geneva.
In addition, Miguel Gómez de Aranda will occupy the second post in Tokyo; Eduardo López Busquets, the same post in the Vatican; and Álvaro Ortega will be the ‘number two’ in Algiers.
They will also be the second in the respective Embassies: Carlos Domínguez (Montevideo), Christian Font (Dublin), Fernando Alonso (Copenhagen), Fernando de Castro (Pretoria), Rodrigo Campos (Asunción), Carmen Carnes (Tunis) and María Palacios (Paris. Unesco), among others.
Some Consulates General will be held by: Francisco José Rábena (Zurich), Eduardo Aznar (Rome), Álvaro Trejo (Milan), Ana María Menéndez (Istanbul), Ricardo Mor (Stuttgart), Ramón Abaroa (Montpellier), Manuel Larrotcha (Toulouse), Pablo Montesino-Espartero (Sao Paulo), Juan Antonio Martín Burgos (Naples), Eduardo Alonso Luengo (Canton), Carlos Sáenz de Tejada (Chengdu), Pedro Sanz (Guayaquil) and Alejandro Alvargonzález Largo (Bata).
The following have been elected as cultural advisors, among others: Ignacio Díaz de la Guardia (Paris), Joaquín Durán (The Hague), Roberto Varela (Buenos Aires), José Miguel de Lara (Brasilia), Ernesto Heredero (Santiago de Chile), Magdalena Cruz (Cairo) and Alberto Miranda (Bogotá).
