{"id":74402,"date":"2021-08-25T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zen-hopper.82-223-81-17.plesk.page\/2021\/08\/25\/death-by-covid-ignacio-aguirre-de-carcer-number-two-at-the-embassy-in-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:04:10","slug":"death-by-covid-ignacio-aguirre-de-carcer-number-two-at-the-embassy-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomatinspain.com\/en\/2021\/08\/25\/death-by-covid-ignacio-aguirre-de-carcer-number-two-at-the-embassy-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by COVID Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer &#8220;number two&#8221; at the Embassy in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>The Diplomat<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diplomat Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer y Gonz\u00e1lez-Quevedo, currently second-in-command at the Spanish Embassy in Tunis, died yesterday as a result of COVID-19, diplomatic sources told The Diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer was reportedly in a Tunisian hospital after being infected with COVID and attempts were being made to transfer him to Spain in a medicalised plane. However, the transfer could not be carried out in time and the coronavirus, together with some health problems he was suffering from, caused his death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer was 67 years old and had a long professional career that began in 1981 and took him to numerous destinations, such as Tokyo, Jakarta, Washington, The Hague, Caracas, San Jos\u00e9 de Costa Rica and Montevideo. In these last three capitals he was second in command of the Embassy, as well as in Tunis, where he has been stationed for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he was International Advisor to the Ministry of Defence and was posted to the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Ibero-America and to the Directorate General of the United Nations and Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE) expressed on its Twitter account its sorrow at the death of Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer, who belongs to a large family of diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomat Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer y Gonz\u00e1lez-Quevedo, currently second-in-command at the Spanish Embassy in Tunis, died yesterday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,182,165,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-subscribers","category-the-bag-en","category-valija-diplomatica-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Death by COVID Ignacio Aguirre de C\u00e1rcer &quot;number two&quot; 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