CONFIRMED: JUAN MANUEL BONET, NEW DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES

Juan Manuel Bonet (Paris, 1953), poet, critic of art and literature, an inveterate bibliophile and collaborator of ABC, will be named this Friday new director of the Instituto Cervantes.His appointment comes at a time when the decisions of Donald Trump have weakened the relations of the Hispanic world with the United States, with the construction of the border wall with Mexico and the temporary erasure of the Spanish version of the White House website Bonet has been in recent years director of the headquarters of the Cervantes in Paris. He relieved Víctor García de la Concha, who had requested his release in the position he had held since January 2012.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda