{"id":235265,"date":"2025-05-06T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=235265"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:40:26","slug":"dr-has-many-new-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/06\/dr-has-many-new-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"DR has many new ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mari\u0301a-Isabel-Castillo-Baez-Wikipedia-699x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235329\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mari\u0301a-Isabel-Castillo-Baez-Wikipedia-699x1024.png 699w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mari\u0301a-Isabel-Castillo-Baez-Wikipedia-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mari\u0301a-Isabel-Castillo-Baez-Wikipedia-768x1126.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mari\u0301a-Isabel-Castillo-Baez-Wikipedia.png 902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><figcaption>Mar\u00eda Isabel Castillo B\u00e1ez \/ Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Relations (Mirex) announced on Friday, 2 May 2025 the appointment of new ambassadors to key posts around the world. The moves are outlined in Decree 239-25. Others were announced in previous decrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointments are:<br>Angie Shakira Mart\u00ednez Tejera, previously ambassador to Jamaica, will now serve as the Dominican Republic&#8217;s ambassador to the Republic of South Korea. She replaces Federico Cuello who will be working at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuel Antonio Dur\u00e1n Pilarte has been tapped as the new ambassador to Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Margarita Cedano Garda de Madera will lead the Dominican mission to the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erika Ylonca \u00c1lvarez Rodr\u00edguez will serve concurrently as ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, based in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lourdes Margarita Franco-Zimmermann will be ambassador concurrent to the Republic of Latvia, based in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1ngela Marianna Vigliotta Mella, the Dominican ambassador to Austria, will also represent the country in the Republic of Serbia. She is based in Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar\u00eda Isabel Castillo B\u00e1ez, formerly ambassador to Mexico, is taking on new responsibilities as the Dominican ambassador to the United States government.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juan Bol\u00edvar D\u00edaz Santana is named ambassador to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony Raful Tejada is named ambassador in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafael Antonio Lantigua Ciriaco is named ambassador in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/239-25\">Decree 239-25 <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/20-25\">Decree 20-25 <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/19-25\">Decree 19-25 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Relations (Mirex) announced on Friday, 2 May 2025 the appointment of new ambassadors to key posts around the world. The moves are outlined in Decree 239-25. Others were announced in previous decrees. The appointments are:Angie Shakira Mart\u00ednez Tejera, previously ambassador to Jamaica, will now serve as the Dominican Republic&#8217;s ambassador to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/06\/dr-has-many-new-ambassadors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235331,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235265\/revisions\/235331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}