Jorge Valero
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| name = Jorge Valero
| birth_name = Jorge Valero Briceño
| image = Jorge Valero - 2018 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Jorge Valero in 2018.
| birth_place = Valera, Trujillo, Venezuela
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|11|08|df=yes}}
}}
{{short description|Venezuelan politician}}
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Jorge Valero Briceño (born 8 November 1946 in Valera, Trujillo) is a Venezuelan diplomat. He was a Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations.
Early career
A graduate of the University of the Andes with a degree in history, Valero received his master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of London. He has also taught in undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of the Andes and the Central University of Venezuela. He was the President of the Latin American Parliament's Social Debt Commission (Comisión de la Deuda Social del Parlamento Latinoamericano).[http://www.venezuela-oas.org/resumen_curricular_embajador_jorge-valero.htm Valero's CV from the OAS website] As a longtime politician, Valero has authored numerous opinion pieces,[http://www.venezuela-oas.org/Articulos%20Prensa%20JVB.htm Bibliography of opinion pieces] from Valero's OAS website but as an academic, has also written several academic papers and books on history.
Political and diplomatic offices
Valero has previously served as a Deputy in the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies. A backer of the Rafael Caldera and Hugo Chávez governments, Valero went on to serve several posts in the current government. He also appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Korea during the Fourth Republic. In 1999, Valero was Venezuela's Representative on the Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID),[http://www.opecfund.org/publications/PDF/AR/AR99es.pdf 1999 OFID Annual Report]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and in 2000 he was the President of the Presidential Preparatory Commission for the OPEC Summit hosted in Caracas that year. Valero currently serves as Deputy Foreign Minister for North America and Multilateral Affairs and also as the Permanent Representative for Venezuela to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
As a spokesmen for the Chávez government, Valero made headlines for antagonistic comments about the United States, for example by referring to the United States as an "empire," and accusing the United States of human rights abuses and genocide for its embargo of Cuba.{{cite news|language=Spanish|title=Venezuela califica de criminal y genocida el bloqueo de EEUU contra Cuba|date=30 October 2007|publisher=Agencia Boliviariana de Noticias|url=http://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=108627|quote="Venezuela exige al Gobierno de Estados Unidos ponga fin al cruel y punitivo bloqueo contra Cuba. Los derechos humanos del pueblo cubano son vulnerados en forma masiva, flagrante y reiterada, con esa acción genocida."}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} During the 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis, he accused the government of Colombia of state terrorism and genocide for its long armed conflict with the FARC rebels.{{cite news|language=Spanish|date=4 March 2008|title=Valero califica ataque a las FARC como "acto genocida"|url=http://www.unionradio.com.ve/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?noticiaid=233690|publisher=Union Radio|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305203016/http://www.unionradio.com.ve/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?noticiaid=233690|archivedate=5 March 2008|quote="No podemos permitir que en nombre de una supuesta lucha contra el terrorismo se practique el terrorismo de Estado y el genocidio, no podemos permitir bajo ninguna circunstancia se viole la soberanía de ninguno de los países del continente, que se transgreda el derecho internacional y los derechos humanos", dijo Valero durante su intervención ante los representantes del resto de los países del hemisferio."}}
Valero was a Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations.{{cite web |title=Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva |url=https://www.unog.ch/unog/website/missions.nsf/%28httpPermanentMissions_en%29/F53DFFC5050BD449C1256F5C000006E5?OpenDocument |publisher=United Nations |accessdate=18 May 2020}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of London
Category:Members of the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies
Category:Ambassadors of Venezuela to South Korea
Category:Permanent representatives of Venezuela to the United Nations
Category:Permanent representatives of Venezuela to the Organization of American States