Carlos Echeverri Cortés

Carlos Echeverri Cortés (23 June 1900 – 14 March 1974)[1][2] was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as ad interim fifth Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and as Ambassador of Colombia to Peru and Mexico.[3][4] During his ambassadorship in Peru he became an enemy of the administration of President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti for granting political asylum to the politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, an action that drove the Peruvian Government to mount a five-year struggle harassing embassy staff and personnel, and forming a military blockade around the Colombian Embassy where Haya was housed, this because Lima had refused to grant safe conduct for Haya to leave the country and Ambassador Echeverri refused to give him up.[5]

Carlos Echeverri Cortés
Dr. Carlos Echeverri Cortes (left) with U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie (right), at U.N. Headquarters.
5th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
In office
August 1952 – 5 March 1953 (1953-03-05)
PresidentRoberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
Preceded byElíseo Arango Ramos
Succeeded byEvaristo Sourdis Juliao
27th Colombian Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
In office
29 August 1951 (1951-08-29) – 29 April 1952 (1952-04-29)
PresidentLaureano Gómez Castro
Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
Preceded byJosé Tomás Angulo
Succeeded byCarlos Albornoz
6th Colombian Ambassador to Peru
In office
16 July 1947 (1947-07-16) – 16 November 1949 (1949-11-16)
PresidentMariano Ospina Pérez
Succeeded byEduardo Zuleta Ángel
Colombian Ambassador to Mexico
In office
1945 – 16 July 1947 (1947-07-16)
Preceded byJorge Zalamea Borda
Succeeded byCarlos Arango Vélez
Personal details
Born(1900-06-23)23 June 1900
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died14 March 1974(1974-03-14) (aged 73)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
NationalityColombian
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Gloria Rodríguez García
Alma materUniversity of London
ProfessionEconomist
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echeverri and the second or maternal family name is Cortés.

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References
  1. Restrepo Sáenz, José María; Restrepo Posada, José; Rivas, Raimundo (2000) [1991]. Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá, Volume 6 [Genealogies of Santa Fe de Bogotá, Volume 6] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Presencia. OCLC 28546996.
  2. "Obituaries". Revista Javeriana (Magazine) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Imprenta del C. de Jesús. 81 (401–405): 325. 1974. ISSN 0120-3088. OCLC 1763965. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
  3. Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores [Memoirs of Foreign Affairs]. National Printing Office of Colombia. 1949. pp. 91–92. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
  4. Tirado Mejía, Alvaro; Londoño Paredes, Julio; Pardo García-Peña, Rodrigo (September 1995). "Colombia en las Naciones Unidas, 50 años de historia y participación" [Colombia in the United Nations, 50 years of history and participation]. Revista Credencial Historia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Luís Ángel Arango Library (69). ISSN 0121-3296. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
  5. Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl (1954-05-03). "My Five Year Exile In My Own Country". Life. Time Inc. 36 (18): 152–167. ISSN 0024-3019. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
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