Peña Nieto administration names Mexico's ambassador to Canada

Career foreign service diplomats tapped for two consul general posts in United States


Guadalajara -
The Institutional Revolutionary Party government of president Enrique Peña Nieto was busy naming diplomatic personnel today, and one of them was Mexico's new ambassador to Canada. He is Francisco Suárez Dávila.

Suárez was an undersecretary of the Hacienda during the administration of PRI president Miguel de la Madrid (in office 1982-1988; died 2012). The Hacienda is Mexico's tax collection and budget planning agency.

Suárez holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a master's in economics from Cambridge. Most of his career has focused on business and economics. He has served as Mexico's ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCDE).

In addition, the administration named two new Mexican diplomatic consuls in the United States. One will be based in New York, and the other in Los Angeles.

Sandra Fuentes Berain was appointed consul in New York. Her previous diplomatic posts include ambassadorships in Canada, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands; head of Mexico's mission to the European Union; and consul general in Hong Kong and Milan. She is a career employee in Mexico's Foreign Service corps.

Carlos Manuel Sada Solana is Mexico's new consul in Los Angeles.  Also a career diplomat, he has previously worked as consul general in New York, Chicago, San Antonio and Toronto.

All three appointments are subject to the Mexican senate's advise and consent power.  That should be an easy process for each nominee, given their public prominence and history of prior ratification when named to previous diplomatic posts.

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