Carlos Raúl Morales

Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso

Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso (born October 7, 1970 in Chiquimula , Guatemala ) is a Guatemalan politician and diplomat. From 2014 to 2017 he was Foreign Minister of Guatemala.

Morales studied law and social sciences at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala . He has been with the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry for 28 years. From 2010 to 2011 and from 2012 to 2014 he was Deputy Foreign Minister. He was also head of the department for bilateral international relations and served several times abroad. His official business has already taken him to Spain , Italy , the Vatican State and Chile .

education

Morales holds a bachelor's degree in law and social sciences from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. His thesis is entitled “ Análisis Jurídico de la Reclamación de Activos Provenientes de Acciones o Hechos Ilícitos Realizados por el Crimen Organizado ”.

He took part in studies on joint international water management by the World Conservation Union . At the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, he worked on courses on marking and maintaining the course of the border and on resolving border disputes through geospatial information. He has given lectures and trainings in various areas of foreign policy.

Morales speaks Spanish and English.

Diplomatic career

Morales began his diplomatic career in 1989. In parallel with his university education, he worked in the Foreign Office as the second secretary in the United Nations division of the multilateral policy department. In 1991 he became head of the integration department of the Bureau for Belize and Honduras Affairs .

Morales first joined the foreign service in 1993 when he was appointed consul at the Guatemalan embassy in Belize. He was also named the Mission's first secretary and remained in that position until 2000.

In 2000, Ambassador Morales returned to Guatemala to take on the post of Director General of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also general coordinator of Guatemala's pro-tempore presidency in the Central American Integration System (SICA). Between 2000 and 2003 he was a member of the commission established under the auspices of the Organization of American States as part of the reconciliation process between Guatemala and Belize . In 2003 he returned to the foreign service and was counselor at the Guatemalan embassy in Honduras.

In 2007 he was appointed Director General for Bilateral International Relations and three years later, in 2010, he was appointed Deputy Minister with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. As part of the Guatemalan foreign policy towards Belize, Morales was appointed executive director of the Belize Commission in Guatemala in 2011. He remained in this post until the commission was dissolved by President Otto Pérez Molina in February 2012 .

In March 2012 he returned to the previous post of Deputy Foreign Minister and remained in this position until he was sworn in as Foreign Minister on September 18, 2014.

Private

Morales is married to Lizette Marie Matus Castro and has two sons.

Web links

• Embajador Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso , CV (Spanish, PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official curriculum vitae of Minister Carlos Raúl Morales ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from 2016, accessed August 8, 2017 (Spanish).  
2. ^ Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores: Carlos Raúl Morales juramentado como nuevo canciller de Guatemala. Retrieved August 9, 2017 (Spanish).