Cabinet Profile: Juan Ramon de la Fuente, Foreign Minister
By Allan Wall
Juan Ramon de la Fuente Ramirez serves on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Cabinet
as Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, literally Secretary of External Relations, that is, Foreign Minister, or as the post is also called in Spanish, Canciller (Chancellor). De la Fuente is the equivalent of the American Secretary of State.
Foreign Minister De la Fuente heads up the SRE department, the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, the Secretariat of Foreign Relations.
Juan Ramon de la Fuente Ramirez was born in Mexico City in 1951. Both of his parents were prominent enough to have their own Wikipedia pages, his father was medical doctor Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, and his mother was academic Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente.
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, son of Ramon and Beatriz, received his university education in Mexico and in Minnesota in the U.S.
Juan Ramon de la Fuente Ramirez became one of the most prominent psychiatrists of Mexico and was president of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias from 1996 to 1997.
In 1994, De la Fuente became Secretary of Health in the presidential cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo.
From 1999 to 2007, De la Fuente served as rector (university president) of the UNAM, the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
UNAM is the 15th biggest university of the world (by enrollment) and the largest in Latin America.
From 2018 to 2023, De la Fuente was Mexico’s representative to the United Nations.
In 2024, Juan Ramon de la Fuente has capped off this distinguished record by now serving as Mexico’s Foreign Minister since October 1st, 2024.
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By Allan Wall
Source: https://mexiconewsreport.com
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