Mexico City.- The Senate of the Republic ratified with 78 votes in favor and 16 against Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz as Ambassador of Mexico in Venezuela. The new ambassador, who lacks diplomatic experience, was the founder of the Isthmus Rural Student Worker Coalition (COCEI). In addition, he is a candidate for Morena’s candidacy for the government of Oaxaca.
In the opinion approved by the senators it is emphasized that De Gyves de la Cruz meets the requirements of birth and minimum age necessary for the position to which he was appointed and, in addition, he is in full enjoyment of his civil and political rights, as stipulated in article 20 of the Mexican Foreign Service Law.
The new Ambassador of Mexico in Venezuela is 70 years old, has studies in Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Between 1981 to 1983 and from 1999 to 2001 he was municipal president of Juchitan, Oaxaca. From 1996 to 1998 he was a local deputy in the same state and also served as a federal deputy of the LIII Legislature of the Congress of the Union.
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In the same session, the senators unanimously ratified Luis Manuel López Moreno as ambassador of Saint Lucia.
At the end of the vote, the president of the Board of Directors, Olga Sánchez Cordero, took the oath of law from the new diplomatic representatives.
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