The Government of Spain has approved this Tuesday the appointment of Ramón Santos Martínez as the new ambassador to Venezuela, a position that was left empty after the departure of Jesús Silva in 2020, when the Executive chose to downgrade the relationship to the level of chargé d’affaires as a sign of its disagreement with the situation in the country.
Thus, the Council of Ministers has promoted the current Chargé d’Affaires in Venezuela, a post he has held since November 2021, to the category of ambassador and will thus become the highest representative of Spain in that country.
Santos Martínez, a graduate in Law, Political Science and Sociology, with a Master’s Degree in Constitutional Law and Political Science, was previously Spanish Ambassador to Panama (2015 – 2019), to Bolivia (2008 – 2012) and has been posted to the Spanish Embassies in Washington, Brussels-EU and Quito.
In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has held, among others, the positions of ambassador in Special Mission for Ibero-American Summits and Multilateral Affairs of Ibero-America, deputy director general of Andean Community Countries, deputy director general of MERCOSUR countries and Chile, deputy director general of Cooperation with Central American and Caribbean Countries, and head of Cabinet of the Secretary General of the AECID. Also, in December 2019, he was special envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, already advanced at the end of November in an interview that if the Venezuelan dialogue advanced «as we are beginning to see», the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador in the country was a decision «perfectly susceptible to be reversed».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
