Mexico City (EFE).- Alicia Bárcena, former executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America (Cepal) and current Mexican ambassador to Chile, will be the new Mexican foreign minister to replace Marcelo Ebrard, who resigned to seek the candidacy for The presidency.
“Alicia Bárcena, she is going to be the next Secretary of Foreign Relations. In 10 days because she is the ambassador of Mexico in Chile. She has a very extensive career in the field of diplomacy, she is a very intelligent, capable woman, ”said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday when making the announcement.
Bárcena, born in Mexico City in 1952, was the head of ECLAC from 2008 to March 2022, a period in which she established herself as the most influential secretary since the time of Raúl Prebisch, an Argentine who led the organization between 1950 and 1963. .