Milei designates the ambassador of Wenceslao Bunge, former CEO of Credit Suisse in Spain
Him Government of Javier Milei In the end he named a new ambassador to Spain. The designation of the businessman Wenceslao Bunge Saravia was approved on Wednesday by the National Senate. Bunge Saravia was responsible for the Spanish Credit Suisse Bank’s affiliate until 2022 and was World Co -President of the Jll Real Estate Company. To assume diplomatic representation, he must give up the Spanish citizens who had obtained two years ago. In Madrid he will have a delicate mission: It improves the relationships between the governments of Milei and Pedro SánchezEnmity after the explosions of the Argentine president in May of last year.
The Argentine Embassy in Spain was vacant since last December, when the Ultra Government churken out the diplomat Roberto Bosch, appointed a year earlier. The official had been seriously stopped after Milei will participate in a vox rally And he hurled himself against Sánchez and his wife Begoña Gómez, who then called “corrupt”. That scandal caused the withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador to Argentina, María Jesús Alonso, a crisis that began to alleviate at the end of 2024, with the arrival in Buenos Aires of the new representative of Spain, Joaquín María de Arístegui Laborde.
After the removal of Bosch, the Ultra Executive announced that the position would be occupied by the Exul in Barcelona Alejandro Alonso Sainz. But the differences within the government frustrated their candidacy, in the context of the reforms promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to align the country’s diplomatic representatives with the interests of Milei. The Intern Pulse opted for Bunge Saravia and, in March, its name was raised by the president to the congress, which must provide an agreement for the designation of ambassadors. This Wednesday, the senators approved their specifications with 53 votes in favor and 2 against.
For almost three decades, between 1993 and 2022, Bunge Saravia He worked on Credit Suisse, where he was CEO of the Spanish associated, and then served in Jll, a global real estate services company. His father, Wenceslao Bunge, was a spokesman for the powerful businessman Alfredo Yabrán, famous in Argentina in the nineties: Yabrán committed suicide in 1998, accused of ordering the murder of the photographer José Luis Cabaza.
In his new function as ambassador, the priorities of Bunge Saravia will be three years old, he said in an audience before the senators: “Normalize the bilateral relationship, to work to bring investments of Spanish companies and groups for Argentina and promote the increase in Argentine exports to Spain”. But the first problem to be solved will be another. To be an Argentine ambassador, he will have to give up the Spanish nationality he had obtained in 2023, thanks to a royal decree. He had assured that he would do it after the high chamber approval.
In the same session on Wednesday, the Senate also voted favorably Alejandro Oxenford as an ambassador to the United States. The businessman, who is already acting in Washington because he has been appointed in commission by Milei, will replace Gerardo Wertheinraised to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs last November.
