After a two and a half year year absence, there is a new Costa Rican Ambassador for Nicaragua. The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado has appointed Xinia Esperanza Vargas Mora to take up the position.
Vargas has spent almost 40 years in government and diplomatic positions. Prior to this appointment, she was the Costa Rican Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
The last Costa Rican Ambassador to Nicaragua was Eduardo Trejos. He left in August 2018 and returned to Costa Rica to head the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (known as the DIS). Under Trejos’ tenure, the appointment system was introduced as a major improvement to the process of Nicaraguans obtaining visas to enter Costa Rica.
Embajadora designada de Costa Rica en Nicaragua, Xinia Vargas Mora. pic.twitter.com/HG6m1yzcnQ
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The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that Vargas began her government career in 1981 with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her diplomatic career started in 1993 as a Ministerial Counselor and then Consul in Los Angeles, California. Vargas returned to Costa Rica, where she held a variety of functions in the Consular Division of the General Directorate of the Foreign Service including in the Office of the Minister (Directorate General for Foreign Policy).
Vargas holds a Masters in Diplomacy from the University of Costa Rica- Instituto Diplomático Manuel María de Peralta, San José. A Law Degree and Notary Public (Universidad Central, San José,) and a Bachelor of Education Sciences from the Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José, Costa Rica.
Trivia: The formal procedure after being appointed by their own head of state is for the ambassador to present their “Credentials”, an expression that comes from the French, Lettre de créance or “Letter of Credence”. This will be the formal appointment letter, in this case from the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado. The letter very simply asks the head of the receiving nation to “give credence” when the ambassador speaks on behalf of their own country. This formal ceremony marks the beginning of the ambassador’s tenure.
On Saturday (March 13), La Prensa newspaper in Nicaragua reported the appointment of the new ambassador to Nicaragua, meanwhile, in Costa Rica, the government denied it.
However; this Tuesday 16th of March 2021 the government confirmed her appointment as Ambassador to Nicaragua.
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