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Who is Jonny Martínez Mezquita?

The new Dominican ambassador to Mexico, Jonny Martínez Mezquita, is described as a man close to President Danilo Medina, as reported in Diario Libre on 30 October 2019. He is a career diplomat, with 16 years of experience in the Dominican foreign service. He is the president of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in Navarrete, Santiago. He ran for mayor in the 2016 election.

He is a graduate of law from the Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA). He has a master’s in international law and international relations from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). He has taken courses at the diplomacy school of the Ministry of Foreign Relations and at the Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain. He was born in Santiago on 27 February 1967.

He has announced he will concentrate on strengthening commercial, touristic and cultural relations with Mexico.

6 November 2019