The former president of the Foreign Relations Commission in the Senate, Gabriela Cuevas, does not consider it a “mistake” to invite former opposition governors, as she points out that “partisan militancy should not be a reason to exclude anyone”, but rather the accounts that governors left in their states and that they have the profiles and work plans that they will present.
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“Mexican foreign policy must be a state policy that reflects the plurality of Mexico and consolidates it into the same vision and project focused on national interests,” he wrote in a column titled “Mexican diplomacy, between plurality and mistrust” in which he warned that “political appointments” are not new or innovative in Mexican diplomacy.
“Vicente Fox’s six-year term propelled politicians from the right and left to the head of numerous embassies and consulates. The government of (Felipe) Calderón was no exception and we saw renowned PRI members occupy very important positions abroad, which far from being seen as an obscure pact, were negotiated by their parties and benches in a kind of ‘quota’. During the term of (Enrique) Peña, the appointments for the opposition were relegated to minor positions, so it seems that plurality is not necessary or at least not in our immediate memory, ”he wrote.
There are examples of politicians who were representatives of governments from other parties. This is the case of former PRI member and former Redista member Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, who in the six-year term of PAN member Vicente Fox was ambassador to the European Union and to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
Another notable case was that of PRI member Rosario Green, who was ambassador to Argentina from 2001 to 2004, also with Fox. In that same six-year term, Roberta Lajous was appointed as Mexico’s representative in Cuba, replacing PRD member Ricardo Pascoe, who had a conflict with Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda.
Another example was in the government of Peña Nieto, when former Calderon attorney Marisela Morales was consul in Milan, Italy, among others.
Currently, the Morenista government even has prominent tricolors in the foreign service, one of them is Fernando Castro Trenti, candidate of the PRI and other parties in 2013 for governor of Baja California, who is now in charge of economic promotion in the Consulate of Mexico in Houston. He also has Carlos Jiménez Macías, as minister of political affairs in Spain.
