Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/04
By Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter
Honduran Ambassador to Taiwan Rafael Fernando Sierra Quesada had never thought he
Honduran Ambassador to Taiwan Rafael Fernando Sierra Quesada / CNA file photo
would one day become a diplomat, let alone serve in a country thousands of miles away from home.
Prior to his posting in Taipei in 2015, Sierra’s diplomatic experience was limited to a brief stint at the Honduran embassy in Washington, D.C. when he was a graduate student in the United States.
At the age of 38, he had acquired solid administrative experience in the Honduran National Congress and National Commission of Telecommunications and was a trusted member of President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s administration.
Critics in Sierra’s home country, however, did not see that as adequate preparation for his appointment by Hernandez as Honduras’ ambassador to Taiwan, but the president stuck to his decision. [FULL STORY]