Overview

• The presidency sent Encinas’s designation to the Senate through the Interior Ministry, and the chamber’s leadership referred it to the Foreign Relations Commission for analysis.
• The commission scheduled an extraordinary meeting on Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. to hear Encinas’s presentation, take questions, and consider a report that would then move to the full Senate for ratification.
• Lawmakers will also take up nominations for Laura Elena Carrillo to UN agencies in Rome and Carlos Eugenio García de Alba as ambassador to Brazil as part of a coordinated diplomatic push.
• The proposed appointment follows recent friction with the OAS over its critique of Mexico’s judicial-selection process, which President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected as interference in domestic affairs.
• Encinas is a veteran politician who served as senator and human-rights subsecretary and led the Ayotzinapa truth commission, and if ratified he would represent Mexico on human rights, democracy, and regional cooperation at the OAS.