PRESIDENT PEÑA NIETO MAKES NEW DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS

The Foreign Ministry reports that President Peña Nieto, by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by Article 89 of the Mexican Constitution, has named four Mexican officials as ambassadors and consuls to posts abroad.

Jorge Castro Valle Kuehne, as ambassador to Switzerland and, subject to approval, concurrently to Liechtenstein. Ambassador Castro Valle holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a career diplomat, having joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1973 and rising to the rank of ambassador in 1994. During his diplomatic career, he has been Mexico’s ambassador to Germany and Sweden; Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean; Director General of Protocol; Director General for North America; Secretary to the Foreign Secretary and Deputy Chief of Mission in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Jaime Enrique Inocencio Garcia Amaral, as ambassador to Lebanon. Garcia Amaral is a career diplomat, having entered the Foreign Service in 1976 and rising to the rank of ambassador in 2002. During his diplomatic career, he has served as ambassador of Mexico in Turkey, Consul General of Mexico in Barcelona and Montreal and Deputy Head of Mission in Italy and Chile. He has also been Director General for Europe and Cultural Affairs.

Carlos Martín Jiménez Macías, as Consul General in Chicago, Illinois (United States). Jiménez Macías has twice represented San Luis Potosí in the Senate and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies three times. He was President of the Latin American and Caribbean Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; President of the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas; and Secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee for Europe in the Senate. He has also been Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Unions of Workers in the Service of the State.

Emilio Rabasa P. Gamboa, as ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. (United States). Rabasa holds a doctoral degree in law from the UNAM and has been a research professor at the UNAM’s Law Department and its Institute for Legal Research. He is a member of the National Council of Science and Technology’s (CONACYT) National System of Researchers. He has served as Undersecretary of Prevention and Social Rehabilitation in the Interior Ministry and has been Secretary of the Permanent Inter-American Committee on Social Security. He has also been a trial lawyer and the author of numerous books on legal issues. He was also the Director of the Department of Law and Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico and de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).