The Mexican government has appointed Alicia Bárcena, former executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), as the country’s new ambassador to Chile, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard revealed on Tuesday.
“On the instructions of the President of the Republic, we present the request of blessing to the Government of Chile for the appointment as ambassador of Mexico to that country of Alicia Bárcena, who has had an outstanding career and career in the United Nations,” Ebrard announced.
The official recalled that Bárcena, born in Mexico City in 1952, was the head of ECLAC from 2008 to March 2022, a period in which she consolidated herself as the most influential secretary since the time of Raúl Prebisch, an Argentine who led the organization between 1950 and 1963.
The foreign secretary made the announcement at the National Palace’s daily conference, although the government had appointed Bárcena last January as the next director of the Matías Romero Institute, the Mexican government’s diplomatic academy.
Ebrard stressed that the Mexican has “a well-known academic career, she has a master’s degree, she has an honorary doctorate.”
“And she is very well known around the world, I would say, because she was also Ban Ki-moon’s deputy secretary, when she was secretary-general of the United Nations. We have received the approval of the Government of Chile,” said the secretary.
PÁNAMA AND COLOMBIA
The foreign minister also reported the approval granted by the Government of Panama for the new ambassador of Mexico in that country, former Senator Jesusa Rodríguez, known for her feminist, indigenist and pro-marijuana positions.
“We already have the blessing, as of June 1, for the appointment of Laura María de Jesús Rodríguez, better known as Jesusa Rodríguez, an endearing companion, friend, outstanding feminist, a woman who has done a lot for the theater, for alternative spaces,” said Ebrard.
The Government of Mexico proposed Jesusa Rodríguez after the criticism unleashed by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for proposing in January the historian Pedro Salmerón, accused of sexual harassment while he was a professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).
Finally, the foreign minister announced that the Government presented the request for approval for Patricia Ruiz Anchondo, former social prosecutor of Mexico City, to be the new ambassador of the country in Colombia.
“Three women, feminist foreign policy and recognition of diverse profiles that represent the richness of the female presence in Mexico and in foreign policy,” Ebrard concluded.
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