At the request of Zapatero , Jiménez stood against a local Socialist politician in a Madrid party election , but suffered a defeat . Shortly after , on 20 October 2010 , she was appointed by Zapatero to be the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs in a cabinet reshuffle , replacing Miguel Ángel Moratinos . In her capacity as foreign minister , she met with Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang during his high-profile visit to Spain in 2011 . Also , she led negotiations with the U.S. on cleaning Palomares , Western Europe ’s most radioactive site forty-five years after narrowly avoiding nuclear obliteration in a U.S. Air Force accident
U.S. Air Force accident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash
Trinidad Jiménez