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'''Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco''' (born 24 February 1978) is a [[Guatemala]]n diplomat and government official. She is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala as of 27 August 2017.
'''Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco''' (born 24 February 1978) is a [[Guatemala]]n diplomat and government official. She is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala as of 27 August 2017, in substituton of [[Carlos Raúl Morales]].

On October 18, 2017, the Constitutional Court granted President Jimmy Morales less than 12 hours to dismiss the minister and her deputy minister for the crisis caused by the rupture of President Morales with the Commissioner of Cicig, Iván Velasquez.


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 21:11, 26 January 2018

Sandra Jovel
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala
Assumed office
27 August 2017
PresidentJimmy Morales
Preceded byCarlos Raúl Morales
Guatemala Ambassador to Colombia
In office
1 July 2017 – 27 August 2017
PresidentJimmy Morales
Preceded byHéctor Iván Espinoza Farfán
Succeeded byReagan Vega
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala
In office
10 February 2016 – 17 May 2016
Serving with Carlos Ramiro Martínez, Anamaría Diéguez Arévalo, Alicia Virginia Castillo Sosa
PresidentJimmy Morales
Preceded byRodrigo Vielmann
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born (1978-02-24) 24 February 1978 (age 46)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Children1
ProfessionDiplomat

Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco (born 24 February 1978) is a Guatemalan diplomat and government official. She is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala as of 27 August 2017, in substituton of Carlos Raúl Morales.

Career

Minister of foreign affairs

In August 2017, a new political crisis emerged, as the rumors that president Morales had the intentions to remove commissioner Iván Velásquez from the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). On such a short notice, a presidential trip to the headquarters of the UN took place on 25 August, 2017. The topics in the agenda remained unknown until a meeting with Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, took place on the same day. The Government of Guatemala did not confirm nor deny the fact that the removal of Iván Velásquez had taken place during the meeting.

On 27 August, first thing in the morning, president Morales issued an executive order declaring commissioner Iván Velásquez "non grato", and expelled him from the country. As Minister Morales refused to sign the executive order, Morales was removed from office along with one of his viceministers, Carlos Ramiro Martínez. In the afternoon, news was known of the resignation of another viceminister of foreign affairs, Anamaría Diéguez. Morales named Jovel as successor to Carlos Raúl Morales and ordered her to immediately comply with the requirements to initiate the expulsion of the Colombian commissioner.[1][2][3]

See also

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