Consul General

​It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the website of the Consulate General of Spain in Los Angeles, with jurisdiction in Southern California and the States of Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

Through this website, which is linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Spain, we facilitate information about the duties that we carry out and the different services that we offer in the various departments of the Consulate.  At the same time we try to provide answers to a variety of questions that are formulated by Spanish citizens who reside here or by American and foreign citizens who wish to visit or live in Spain.

Our goal is to constantly improve the quality of the information that we offer and the services we carry out.  To this end, we hope this website is a useful and accessible instrument so we try to update it as often as necessary.  We thank you in advance for any comments or suggestions you may wish to make to improve its contents.

Juan Carlos Sánchez Alonso

Consul General

CAREER

Juan Carlos Sánchez Alonso, Consul General of Spain in Los Angeles, is a senior Spanish diplomat, who has served as Ambassador of Spain to Peru and Consul General of Spain in Santiago de Chile and held other posts in the Spanish Diplomatic Missions of Venezuela and Argentina.  

He has held several positions in the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Madrid as Vocal Advisor of Inter-American Affairs, Deputy Director for Countries of the Andean Community, Cabinet Director of the Secretary of State for Latin America and Director General of Foreign Policy for Latin America.  

He graduated from the University of Oviedo with a Law Degree in 1984 and entered Spain's Diplomatic Corps in 1991.