Beatriz Larrotcha Palma

Beatriz Larrotcha Palma
Ambassador of Spain to Belgium
In office 14 September 2018 – 27 September 2022
Preceded by	Cecilia Yuste Rojas
Succeeded by	Alberto Antón Cortés [es]
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In office 21 July 2017 – 13 July 2018
Preceded by	Cristóbal González-Aller Jurado [es]
Succeeded by	Ángeles Moreno Bau
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-04)4 September 1959 Jaén, Spain
Died	3 December 2024(2024-12-03) (aged 65) Madrid, Spain
Profession	Diplomat
Awards	Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2018)

Beatriz Larrotcha Palma (4 September 1959 – 3 December 2024) was a Spanish diplomat. She served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and as Ambassador of Spain to Belgium [es] from 2018 to 2022.

Life and career

After graduating in law, Larrotcha entered the diplomatic service in 1987.^[1]

Larrotcha has been assigned to the diplomatic representations of Algeria, Belgium and Peru as well as to the permanent representative of Spain to the European Union. She was delegate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Barcelona 92 Olympic Organizing Committee, deputy assistant director general of Personnel, deputy director general of Patrimonial Affairs and advisor to the General Inspection of Services, the Diplomatic Information Office and the General Directorate of Spaniards Abroad and Consular and Migration Affairs.^[2]

In 2012, Larrotcha was appointed director of the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. She was technical general secretary (2016–2017) and undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017–2018).^[3]

In October 2018, Larrotcha was summoned to testify for an alleged crime of prevarication, in relation to a complaint that the diplomat Miguel Ángel Vecino had filed in court against three undersecretaries of the Ministry—Beatriz Larrotcha, Cristóbal González-Aller and Rafael Mendívil—^[4] on the grounds that she was being unfairly denied positions abroad.^[5]

Larrotcha last posting was as Spanish ambassador to Belgium, a position she held between 2018 and 2022.^[6][7][8] She died in Madrid on 3 December 2024, at the age of 65.^[9][10]

References

1. Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación. Gobierno de España, ed. (2018). "Embajadora Excma. Sra. Dª. Beatriz Larrotcha Palma". Madrid. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
2. Redacción (15 September 2018). "Beatriz Larrotcha, exsubsecretaria del Ministerio de Exteriores, nueva embajadora de España en Bélgica". Crónicas de la Inmigración. Madrid. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
3. Luis Ayllón (14 July 2017). "Beatriz Larrotcha, nueva subsecretaria de Exteriores". ABC. Madrid. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
4. Redacción (13 July 2017). "Cesan al subscretario de Asuntos Exteriores, Cristóbal González-Aller". España Exterior. Madrid. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
5. Pardo Torregrosa, Iñaki (8 June 2019). "El cónsul español en Edimburgo ha sido cesado por "extralimitarse" de sus funciones". Barcelona: La Vanguardia. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
6. Redacción (15 September 2018). "Embajadora jiennense en el Reino de Bélgica". Diario de Jaén. Jaén. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
7. Borrell Fontelles, Josep (14 September 2018). "Real Decreto 1170/2018, de 14 de septiembre, por el que se designa Embajadora de España en el Reino de Bélgica a doña Beatriz Larrotcha Palma". Madrid: Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE). p. 89627. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
8. Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación. Reino de España (11 October 2018). "Presentación credenciales de la Embajadora de España: La Embajadora de España en el Reino de Bélgica ha presentado credenciales ante SM el Rey de los Belgas". Bruselas. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
9. "Fallece en Madrid la diplomática Beatriz Larrotcha, que fue embajadora de España en Argelia, Bélgica y Perú". Crónicas de la Emigración. 5 December 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
10. Bastida, Sergi Farré, Tada (6 December 2024). "Beatriz Larrotcha, la diplomática que ordenaba el mundo". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 December 2024.