Adolfo Molina Orantes

Adolfo Molina Orantes

Adolfo Molina Orantes (born March 25, 1915 in Guatemala City , † January 31, 1980 ibid) was a Guatemalan university professor and foreign minister .

Life

Adolfo Molina Orantes was the son of Olivia Orantes and Darío Molina Padilla. From 1928 to 1932 he attended the Model Institute. From 1934 to 1935 he attended the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco . From 1936 to 1943 he studied law in Guatemala. In September 1943 he became a Bachelor of Laws . From 1943 to 1944 he was a Fiorello LaGuardia Fellow at Columbia University in New York City. In 1945 he attended a course in criminal law with Luis Jiménez de Asúa. From 1946 to 1947 he made anthropological studies at the university. From 1938 to 1942 he was Secretary of History at the Guatemalan Branch of the Carnegie Institution for Science . From 1942 to 1943 and from 1944 to 1946 he worked for the law firm Ordonez, Hurtado & Molina , and from 1943 to 1944 he worked for Hardin, Hese & Eder in New York City . From 1947 to 1949 he was director of the Institute for Anthropology and History. From 1951 to February 1954 he headed the print shop at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala . In 1952 he was chairman of the Guatemalan Lawyers Association. On February 3, 1954, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

On July 15, 1954, he was a Guatemalan delegate to the Social Science Seminar in San José , Costa Rica. From August 10, 1954 to April 1955, he was Counselor for Guatemala in the Nottebohm case (Liechtenstein v. Guatemala) at the International Court of Justice . From August 21, 1954 to 1965 he was a member of the permanent court of arbitration . On August 1, 1955, he became Legation Councilor. In March 1956 he was a Guatemalan delegate to the Organization of Central American States . From 1959 to 1963 he was chairman of the Instituto Guatemalteco Americano . In 1972 he was chairman of the Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala . From 1961 until his death he was co-editor of the professional body of the Guatemalan lawyers Boletín del Colegio de Abogados de Guatemala .

From October 24, 1957 to March 2, 1958, he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Carlos Castillo Armas . 1955–1957, 1964–1966 and 1970–1974 he was a member of the State Council. From July 1, 1974 to July 1, 1978 he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García .

From 1966 to 1970 he was the first head of the Escuela de Diplomacia of the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry. In 1969 he was plenipotentiary ambassador to the conference on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties . He was a member of the Organization of American States ' Inter-American Legal Committee , which he chaired in 1972. He was an advisor to the Instituto Nacional Indigenista of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia and since November 18, 1955 of the Seminario de Integración Social Guatemalteca . Since 1968 he had exequatur as honorary consul of the Philippines . At his death he was chairman of the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala . He was killed in the fire at the Spanish embassy.

Web links

• Website Dr. Adolfo Molina Orantes (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNESCO , [1]
2. ^ The foundation of the Instituto Indigenista Nacional , modeled on the Mexican es: Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas
3. ↑ Jorge Luján Muñoz, La tragedia de la Embajada de España en Guatemala, 31 de enero de 1980: perspectivas, controversias y comentarios, Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, Jan 1, 2007, 313 pp., P. 259

predecessor	Office	successor
Jorge Skinner Klee Cantón	Guatemalan Foreign Minister October 24, 1957 to March 2, 1958	Carlos García Bauer
Jorge Arenales Catalán	Guatemalan Foreign Minister July 1, 1974 to July 1, 1978	Rafael Castillo Valdez