Claudia Luna Palencia will head the Casa de México in Malaga and Andalusia

Claudia Luna Palencia, Spanish-Mexican journalist and writer, has been appointed president and general director of the Casa de México in Málaga and Andalusia, a private organisation aimed at carrying out a series of cultural, literary, sporting, musical, gastronomic, social, leisure, ritual and folklore activities, as well as training and consultancy, in order to strengthen the ties between Andalusians and Mexicans.  

Luna Palencia is an outstanding journalist both in Spain and in Mexico, with international projection, she is respected in the profession and has maintained her pen independently, far from any political interest. She specialises in geopolitics and geoeconomics and has covered important international summits that have only been attended by a small group of correspondents, such as in Helsinki, at the summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in 2018, or in Geneva, at the summit between President Joe Biden and Putin in 2021. 

Born in Morelia, Michoacán, Luna Palencia has also excelled as a writer. In Mexico, she published two books, "La política del miedo" and "En la órbita del dólar"; and in Spain, she has published the novel "El club de la naftalina" which will be adapted into a film with the director Ana Laura Calderón; she has also published her book of poetry "Ámbar" which she has presented in various recitals in Spain and her most recent book, a story entitled "El rescate de la tortuga Pepe" which is about her childhood in Morelia and which links the Michoacán capital with Málaga.  

In Spain, Luna Palencia is correspondent for the Spanish Government, in La Moncloa, for the magazine Vértigo; correspondent for W Radio and Tribuna Noticias 98.7 FM; columnist for various newspapers such as El Independiente, El Diario de Coahuila, Síntesis de Puebla and the magazine Seguridad y Defensa.  

In the Iberian country, she has made her own way and participates in radio talk shows on Onda Madrid on geopolitics and international analysis with the best international experts, as in the programme "De cara al mundo". She also collaborates in the magazine Atalayar, in the newspapers La Voz de Galicia and La Voz de Asturias and in television programmes, moderates events, conducts galas and presents her books all over the Iberian Peninsula and participates in the most important book fairs. She has a digital magazine which she recently launched in Spain entitled Conexión Hispanoamérica.  

Luna Palencia has lived in Spain for twelve years without interruption, although she arrived in the country of her maternal grandfather in 1999 and has lived in the Iberian country at different times. 

She is a much loved and respected person both in Spain and in Mexico, charismatic, tenacious and always frank, Luna Palencia likes to cook Mexican food for her Spanish friends, especially cochinita pibil.  

With a brilliant mind and natural intelligence she likes to make friends everywhere, her best quality is public relations. She is very proud of her native country and of her origins in Morelia, Michoacán; in her anecdotes to her European friends she vehemently emphasises the cultural, historical, gastronomic, natural and human greatness of Mexico.  

Luna Palencia has interviewed a series of leading figures from presidents, former presidents, Nobel Prize winners, ministers, bankers, ambassadors and directors of international organisations.  

"I feel very optimistic about this new project which also has a profound human charge because through the Casa de México in Málaga and Andalusia we want to strengthen the cultural and human ties between Andalusians and Mexicans, but we will also give scholarships to children and underprivileged young people so that they can complete their studies both in Andalusia and in Mexico," Luna Palencia stressed at a meeting at the Uppery Club Málaga.