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New Us Ambassador to Spain Presents Credentials to King Philip Vi

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Madrid, 18 Feb (EFE).- The new ambassador of the United States to Spain, Benjamin León Jr., presented his credentials to King Felipe VI this Wednesday at the traditional ceremony held at the Royal Palace and attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. The credentials are the document that accredits a foreign ambassador as representative and top diplomatic authority of another country in Spain. The position of American ambas…

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Madrid, 18 Feb (EFE).- The new ambassador of the United States to Spain, Benjamin León Jr., presented his credentials to King Felipe VI this Wednesday at the traditional ceremony held at the Royal Palace and attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. The credentials are the document that accredits a foreign ambassador as representative and top diplomatic authority of another country in Spain. The position of American ambas…

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Two days after his arrival in Madrid, more than a year after his appointment, Benjamín León, Jr., presented his credentials to the King on Wednesday, at a ceremony with which his mission as United States ambassador to Spain was official. León, 81, born in Cuba, a health and real estate tycoon in Florida, recently married to Mavileibys (Mavi) Campa Felipe, 38, arrives with the mission of defending the interests of the Trump administration, among …

·Granada, Spain
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The King received on Wednesday morning the credentials of seven foreign ambassadors, including that of the United States, Benja...

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Smiled and founded on an impeccable flaw, the US ambassador to Spain, Benjamin León, presented his credentials to the King this Wednesday.

·Madrid, Spain
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Leon was the last to go to the Royal Palace to comply with the protocol act after six other new ambassadors arrived in recent weeks, those from Haiti, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, Uruguay and Bulgaria.

Cuban of Canarian origin, Benjamín León Jr. fled Fidel Castro's revolution with $5 in his pocket and went from distributing newspapers to making millionaires with health care companies to seniors in Florida. As Spain's misalignment with the United States grows, the ambassador arrives to fill a key post that has been vacant for a year and a half.

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