Alberto Zérega Fombona

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Alberto Zérega Fombona (* 1889 - October 9, 1968 in Paris ) was a Venezuelan politician and ambassador .

Life

Alberto Zérega Fombona was a cousin of Rufino Blanco Fombona .

In January 1909, a few weeks after a coup overturned the dictatorship of Cipriano Castro , he founded the daily La República in Caracas .

Alberto Zérega Fombona came to the Treaty of Versailles in Paris, where he regularly visited Rubén Darío and dined with José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava (born June 24, 1882 in Aragua de Barcelona ; † May 1, 1970 in Caracas ) in the Bois de Boulogne .

In 1935 he was a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela. From 1936 to 1946 he was accredited as envoy in Bern .

On January 8, 1937, he was appointed ambassador to Bogotá , where he was accredited from January 31, 1937 to August 22, 1938. From May 1939 he was ambassador in Paris and was also accredited in Berlin until December 31, 1941. In 1942 he was ambassador to Madrid .

From 1948 he was a representative of the Venezuelan government at UNESCO in Paris.

Individual evidence

  1. Rufino Blanco-Fombona, Basilio Tejedor B .: Viéndome vivir. primer diario inédito, p. 13
  2. Luis Beltrán Guerrero, Horacio Jorge Becco: Ensayos y poesías . P. 116
  3. Zérega Fombona, Alberto, Minister (1936–1946), Swiss Federal Archives E2001E # 1000/1571 # 568 * .
  4. Hemeroteca. ABC (Madrid), October 19, 1956, p. 44
predecessor Office successor
Francisco Arroyo Parejo Venezuelan envoy in Bogota
January 31, 1937 to August 22, 1938
José Santiago Rodríguez
Gustavo Herrera Venezuelan envoy in Berlin
September 1, 1939 to December 31, 1941
Carlos Cristianos Rojas
Caracciolo Parra Pérez Venezuelan envoy in Madrid
1942
Cristóbal Benítez