List of ambassadors of Peru to Venezuela

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Centro Financiero Madrid F. 6, Caracas

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The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Peru to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the official representative of the Republic of Peru to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Relations between both countries were established in 1853,{{Cite news |title=Entre Perú y Venezuela, las palabras |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/newsid_6219000/6219394.stm |last=Henríquez |first=Andrea |date=2006-12-08 |work=BBC Mundo}} and relations have been continued since, although relations have twice been frozen (but never severed):{{Cite news |title=Cancillería: "El Perú nunca ha roto las relaciones diplomáticas con Venezuela" |url=https://gestion.pe/peru/politica/el-peru-nunca-ha-roto-las-relaciones-diplomaticas-con-venezuela-precisa-cancilleria-guido-bellido-pedro-castillo-nicolas-maduro-grupo-de-lima-nndc-noticia/?ref=gesr |date=2021-09-21 |work=Gestión}} in 2001, over a dispute regarding the extradition of Vladimiro Montesinos,{{Cite news |title=Perú y Venezuela congelan sus relaciones diplomáticas por las discrepancias sobre la captura de Montesinos |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/06/30/internacional/993852010_850215.html |last=Aznárez |first=Juan Jesús |date=2001-06-30 |work=El País}} and in 2017, when Peru recalled its ambassador and expelled its Venezuelan counterpart.{{Cite news |title=Perú y Venezuela restablecen relaciones diplomáticas al más alto nivel |url=https://p.dw.com/p/41kxv |date=2021-10-16 |work=Deutsche Welle}}

List of representatives

{{Incomplete list|date=January 2023}}

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Pedro Gálvez Egúsquiza

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| {{dts|1856|8|5}}

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| {{sortname|Ramón|Castilla}}

| Minister plenipotentiary to Venezuela, as well as Central America (including neighbouring Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) and New Granada.{{Cite journal |title=Historia de las relaciones diplomáticas Costa Rica-Perú durante el período de la Campaña Nacional contra los Filibusteros (1856-1857): el caso del empréstito peruano |journal=Revista Relaciones Internacionales |url=https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15128/23575 |last1=Mora-Ugalde |first1=Sara |date=2021-02-23 |issue=1 |volume=94 |last2=Monge-Blanco |first2=Silvia |doi=10.15359/ri.94-1.1 |last3=Mora-Rodríguez |first3=Adriana|pages=15–35 |doi-access=free }}

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| {{sortname|César|Elejalde Chopitea|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1924}}

| {{dts|1924}}

| {{sortname|Augusto B.|Leguía}}

| Chargé d'affaires (a.i.)

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| {{sortname|Ernesto|de Tezanos Pinto|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1924}}

| {{dts|1936}}

| {{sortname|Augusto B.|Leguía|nolink=1}}

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

|-

| {{ill|Enrique Goytisolo Bolognesi|es}}

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| {{dts|1942}}

| {{dts|1946}}

| {{sortname|Manuel|Prado Ugarteche}}

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

|-

| {{sortname|Ricardo|Boza Aizcorbe|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1946}}

| {{dts|1949}}

| {{sortname|José Luis|Bustamante y Rivero}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Eduardo Garland|es}}

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| {{dts|1949}}

| {{dts|1957}}

| {{sortname|Manuel A.|Odría}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Teodosio|Cabada González-Prada|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1957}}

| {{dts|1959}}

| {{sortname|Manuel A.|Odría|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Pablo Abril de Vivero|es}}

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| {{dts|1959}}

| {{dts|1961}}

| {{sortname|Manuel|Prado Ugarteche|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Pedro|Ugarteche Tizón|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1961}}

| {{dts|1962}}

| {{sortname|Manuel|Prado Ugarteche|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

|-

| {{ill|Guillermo Hoyos Osores|es}}

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| {{dts|1963}}

| {{dts|1969}}

| {{sortname|Fernando|Belaúnde}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|José|Alvarado Sánchez|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1969}}

| {{dts|1972}}

| {{sortname|Juan|Velasco Alvarado}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Luis|Barrios Llona|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1972}}

| {{dts|1975}}

| {{sortname|Juan|Velasco Alvarado|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

|-

| {{sortname|Luis Felipe|de Las Casas Grieve}}

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| {{dts|1975}}

| {{dts|1978}}

| {{sortname|Juan|Velasco Alvarado|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Javier|Pérez de Cuéllar}}

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| {{dts|1978}}

| {{dts|1979}}

| {{sortname|Francisco|Morales Bermúdez}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Jorge Guillermo Llosa Pautrat|es}}

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| {{dts|1979}}

| {{dts|1982}}

| {{sortname|Francisco|Morales Bermúdez|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Alfredo|Ramos Suero|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1982}}

| ?

| {{sortname|Fernando|Belaúnde|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Jorge|Raygada Cauvi|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1988}}

| {{dts|1980}}

| {{sortname|Alan|García}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Allan|Wagner Tizón}}

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| {{dts|1990}}

| {{dts|1992}}

| {{sortname|Alberto|Fujimori}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Eduardo|Raygada Morzán|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1993}}

| {{dts|1996}}

| {{sortname|Alberto|Fujimori|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Juan Castilla Meza|es}}

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| {{dts|1996|3|1}}

| {{dts|1999|3|16}}

| {{sortname|Alberto|Fujimori|nolink=1}}

| Last ambassador to the Republic of Venezuela before the Bolivarian Revolution.

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| {{sortname|Julio|Balbuena López-Alfaro|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|1999}}

| {{dts|1999}}

| {{sortname|Alberto|Fujimori|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Luis Marchand|es}}

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| {{dts|2001}}

| {{dts|2002}}

| {{sortname|Valentín|Paniagua}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Carlos|Urrutia|dab=Peruvian diplomat}}

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| {{dts|2002|10|6}}

| {{dts|2006|5|22}}

| {{sortname|Alejandro|Toledo}}

| Ambassador twice removed due to alleged Venezuelan interference during the 2006 Peruvian national election.{{cite news|title=Peru recalls Venezuela ambassador|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4583268.stm|newspaper=BBC|date=5 January 2006}}{{cite news|title=Peru recalls Venezuelan ambassador|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4959220.stm|newspaper=BBC|date=30 April 2006}}

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| {{sortname|Luis|Santa María Calderón|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|2007}}

| {{dts|2009}}

| {{sortname|Alan|García|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Eric|Anderson Machado|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|2011}}

| {{dts|2012}}

| {{sortname|Alan|García|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador

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| {{sortname|Luis|Raygada Souza-Ferreira|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|2012}}

| {{dts|2013}}

| {{sortname|Ollanta|Humala}}

| Ambassador

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| {{ill|Mario López Chávarri|es}}

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| {{dts|2013}}

| {{dts|2017}}

| {{sortname|Ollanta|Humala|nolink=1}}

| Ambassador. He was the last ambassador to Venezuela before the suspension of relations,{{Cite news |title=Richard Rojas: ¿Quién es y por qué se investiga al embajador en Venezuela ligado a Perú Libre? |url=https://rpp.pe/politica/estado/richard-rojas-quien-es-y-por-que-se-investiga-al-embajador-de-venezuela-ligado-a-peru-libre-noticia-1364535?ref=rpp |last=Pajares Herrada |first=Diego |date=2021-10-21 |work=RPP Noticias}} being accredited to neighbouring Guyana and Suriname.{{Cite web |url=https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/1372421/CV_1.pdf.pdf |title=Embajador Mario López Chávarri - Hoja de Vida |website=Gob.pe}}

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| {{sortname|Richard|Rojas García|nolink=1}}

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| {{sortname|Pedro|Castillo}}

| Rojas was named as ambassador on October 15, 2021,{{Cite news |title=El Gobierno del Perú nombra un nuevo Embajador en Venezuela |url=https://www.gob.pe/institucion/rree/noticias/545424-el-gobierno-del-peru-nombra-un-nuevo-embajador-en-venezuela |date=2021-10-15 |work=Gob.pe}} but his nomination was later annulled.{{Cite news |title=Comunicado Oficial |url=https://www.gob.pe/institucion/rree/noticias/548206-comunicado-oficial/ |date=2021-10-22 |work=Gob.pe}} He had been earlier proposed as ambassador to Panama, but said country did not respond to the proposal. Five days after the announcement, the Peruvian Judiciary issued an impediment to Richard Rojas from leaving the country for six months.{{Cite news |title=Poder Judicial dictó impedimento de salida del país para Richard Rojas por seis meses |url=https://rpp.pe/politica/judiciales/richard-rojas-garcia-poder-judicial-dicto-impedimento-de-salida-del-pais-por-seis-meses-noticia-1364470 |date=2021-10-20 |work=RPP Noticias}}

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| {{sortname|Librado Augusto|Orozco Zapata|nolink=1}}

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| {{dts|2022|01|15}}

| {{dts|}}2024

| {{sortname|Pedro|Castillo|nolink=1}}

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See also

References

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