Humberto Calderón Berti

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Venezuelan politician and diplomat
Rick Perry and Humberto Calderón Berti in Bogotá, 2019

Humberto Calderón Berti (born 21 October 1941 in Boconó, Venezuela[1]) is a Venezuelan geologist, petroleum engineer, diplomat, politician and author, named in 2019 as ambassador to Colombia by disputed interim Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis,[2][3] and welcomed by Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombia's foreign minister.[2]

Career

Calderón Berti is a former president of PDVSA (Venezuela's state-owned petroleum company), and the country's former Minister of Energy and Mines, as well as former Minister of Foreign Affairs.[3] He is also a former OPEC president.[4] His undergraduate degree was from the Central University of Venezuela, and he has a Master's in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[3]

In 2003, he and other former PDVSA petroleum executives founded the Colombian company, Vetra Energia, S.L.[4] He solicited and was granted Spanish citizenship, where he has family and cultural ties, in 2018 because of persecution due to his membership in Venezuela's Social Christian political party (Copei).[5]

On 26 November 2019, Guaidó dismissed Calderón as ambassador in Colombia, citing plans to change foreign policy.[6] Venezuelan diplomat Diego Arria condemned the dismissal, calling it a "huge mistake".[7]

Berti is a member of the Madrid Forum.[8]

Personal life

Humberto is the uncle of Coromoto Godoy, a diplomat who has served as ambassador of the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro to Trinidad and Tobago, India and Spain.[9][10]

Publications

His publications include:[5]

  • Hacia una Política Petrolera Integral: la Responsabilidad Nacional, el Compromiso Internacional (in Spanish) (1979)
  • La Coyuntura Petrolera Venezolana 1982 (in Spanish) (1982)
  • Venezuela y Su Política Petrolera, 1979–1983 (in Spanish) (1986) ISBN 9802650811
  • La Invasión a Kuwait (in Spanish) (1991) ISBN 9802631655

References

  1. ^ ""Para mí es muy grato, en nombre del Presidente Iván Duque, recibir de manos del Embajador Humberto Calderón Berti, las copias de cartas credenciales que lo acreditan como Embajador de Venezuela en Colombia": Canciller Carlos Holmes Trujillo" (in Spanish). Consulate of Colombia in Machiques Official Site. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Colombia reconoció a Humberto Calderón Berti como representante diplomático de Venezuela". Noticias Caracol (in Spanish). 29 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Cárdenas, Abel (25 November 2018). "Aún hay mucho petróleo por descubrir". El Tiempo. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. ^ a b "ACON y CIPEF compran Vetra, uno de los principales productores independientes de petróleo y gas de Colombia]". Acon Investments LLC (Press release). PR Newswire. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  5. ^ a b "España concedió la nacionalidad al ex ministro Humberto Calderón". El Nacional. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Guaidó destituyó al embajador de Venezuela en Colombia". Diario las Américas (in Spanish). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  7. ^ Vidal, Brian (27 November 2019). "Diego Arria rechazó destitución Humberto Calderón Berti: Es todo un despropósito #27Nov". El Impulso (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Carta de Madrid". Fundación Disenso (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  9. ^ Yanuacelis, A. (17 May 2023). "¿Quién es Coromoto Godoy, la nueva embajadora del régimen de Maduro en España?". El Diario. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  10. ^ Vinogradoff, Ludmila (18 January 2023). "Venezuela corresponde a España y nombra nueva embajadora". ABC. Retrieved 21 May 2023.

External links

  • Bloomberg profile