Sandra Jovel
| Sandra Jovel | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala | |
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Assumed office 27 August 2017 |
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| President | Jimmy Morales |
| Preceded by | Carlos Raúl Morales |
| Guatemala Ambassador to Colombia | |
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In office 1 July 2017 – 27 August 2017 |
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| President | Jimmy Morales |
| Preceded by | Héctor Iván Espinoza Farfán |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Lorena Molina Morales (acting as Chargé d'Affaires) |
| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala | |
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In office 10 February 2016 – 17 May 2016 Serving with Carlos Ramiro Martínez, Anamaría Diéguez Arévalo, Alicia Virginia Castillo Sosa |
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| President | Jimmy Morales |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Vielmann |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 February 1978 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Nationality | Guatemalan |
| Children | 1 |
| Profession | Diplomat |
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.
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.
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.
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