Good news is also bad news.
The Spanish government’s approval for PRI member Quirino Ordaz to become ambassador was celebrated as a success for President López Obrador.
This is how Secretary of State Marcelo Ebrard points it out by pointing to the Spanish government’s official document on his Twitter account, in a week in which Panama presented President López Obrador with his position on the appointment of Pedro Salmerón as representative of the Mexican government sent. in that country.
The Panamanian document was not shown by Foreign Minister Ebrard, indicating that there was no approval as of yesterday.
The positions of the Spanish and Panamanian governments allow study material for future members of the Mexican Foreign Service (SEM).
In the case of Spain, it took several months for the government of President Pedro Sánchez to give the PRI politician the approval. There has been much public criticism of the Mexican president against Spain for no relevant strategic reason, putting one of the most important relations for Mexico in diplomatic danger.
Last December, this column revealed that the Spanish government would approve Quirino Ordaz not only in response to President López Obrador’s behavior against Spain, but also because of Ordaz’s links to acts of corruption and, lastly, because of the message that the Mexican president to Spain, by sending Ordaz, leads to a deterioration in the bilateral relationship by electing a politician whose party lost the Sinaloa election last year. Since there were frictions in the relationship, the best thing would have been to send a member of the SEM.
Two important sources of information, from Spain, confirmed to me in December that they would not give him the approval. I have known one of them for 20 years, and at that time she was connected to the publishing field of two large houses: Seix and Salvat.
In countries with very good diplomatic relations, approvals are given in a matter of days, not months.
Two weeks ago, the Secretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean, Juan Fernández Trigo, was at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and he certainly agreed with Secretary of State Carmen Toscano to give the approval in exchange for President López Obrador no longer starts puyas against Spain. . If so, Spain would show a certain innocence.
By making the approval public, Secretary Ebrard tells us that this is good news for AMLO and for the Chancellor himself. For the SEM, this is bad news, especially for those who believe in meritocracy, and it is bad news for Mexican foreign policy because it confirms that the foreign ministry is a placement agency.
As far as Panama is concerned, I hope that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will show the letter with Panama’s permission. That would be interesting.
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