Holguin, the architect of the reconstruction of Colombia-Venezuela relations.
Raquel Goths Bogota, Aug. 8 .- The new Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, has been released today in his office in style by carving a quote that seemed impossible among presidents Juan Manuel Santos and Hugo Chavez, which makes the architect of the rebuilding of relations with Venezuela.
Holguin took over the Colombian Foreign Ministry to assume something more than a challenge, the mission, aika gold, to restore and recover diplomatic and commercial relations with the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador, broken during the management of the now former president Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) .
With the new head of the Colombian diplomacy, who was ambassador to Venezuela between 2002 and 2004, just days ago seemed a utopia, it became reality: the Venezuelan, tera gold, president to visit Colombia and will meet next Tuesday in Bogota, with the newly inaugurated president Santos.
The formal break in relations was part of Venezuela on 22 July after Uribe denounced to the Organization of American States (OAS) the alleged presence of guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Army Liberacion Nacional (ELN) in Venezuelan territory.
In, aion kinah, recent weeks the mission of Holguin seemed complicated because Chavez came to confess that it was reviewing war plans against a possible attack by Colombia and the U.S. accuse of spying for taking decisions in its waters.
So, the presence of Venezuela in the taking of possession of President Santos seemed impossible, but diplomacy and Holguin direct contacts resulted in the attendance at the ceremony, Chancellor Nicolas Maduro.
Analysts agreed, when he announced his appointment as chancellor, that Holguin returned to Colombia and predicted a diplomatic rapprochement with neighboring nations.
His time as ambassador to Caracas is now important for a rapprochement with Venezuela, "explained at the time to , Leonardo Carvajal, Colombia's foreign policy expert of the External University of Colombia.
For Carvajal, the management of Holguin was "positive" and consider it "essential for the purpose of the new president Santos to restore relations."
Holguin, a political scientist with extensive experience in foreign policy, has two decades of experience in the public sector where he held important positions in government and in the Presidency, the Vice-President and the Attorney General of the Nation.
His work in various regional organizations such as the Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) or the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) also facilitates the understanding with Ecuador is more fluid.
In fact, today also met with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, with which I agreed to a new appointment in the next few weeks to restore broken relationships.
Quito broke ties with Bogota in 2008 after the Colombian military bombing of the FARC camp in the neighboring country, which led to President Rafael Correa to report a violation of national sovereignty.
Correa, in another unprecedented move, landed in Bogota on Saturday to attend the investiture of Santos and had only words of conciliation toward assuring the Colombian peoplethat of Ecuador is "an unbreakable brotherhood."
Their presence in Bogota that served his country will take the documents found in the computer of Raul Reyes, the FARC leader was killed in Ecuador during that controversial bombing.
This was one of the conditions of the Quito government to go ahead with the roadmap and restore diplomatic relations.
Holguin was unable to start his career best foot in the Chancery, and is already credited with having put an end to major diplomatic silence to which Colombia was subjected by his neighbors and that affected the entire Latin American region. rg / erm / av