Mauricio Claver-Carone will be named special envoy to Latin America in the incoming Donald Trump administration, announced the US president-elect, who announced that the official would help address current migration and drug smuggling problems in the region.
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Sunday that he will appoint as the State Department's special envoy to Latin America the former director of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, who already served in the first Trump administration .
The Cuban-American was Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council during Trump's first term (2017-2021), and would help address current migration and drug smuggling issues in the region.
“For the past four years, chaos and anarchy have invaded our borders. It is time to restore order to our own hemisphere. Mauritius knows the region and knows how to put US interests FIRST. It also knows the terrible threats that we face due to illegal mass migration and fentanyl,” Trump said on social media.
Claver-Carone He was fired in 2022 as director of the Inter-American Development Bankor after an investigation discovered that he had an intimate relationship with an employee, something Claver-Carone denied.
He was the first American to head the bank. In that position he tried to disempower Argentina and Brazil, which had dominated his agenda in the past, and give more prominence to smaller countries.
(With information from Reuters)