Luis Villar Borda

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Luis Villar Borda (born 1929 in New York City , † July 23, 2008 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian ambassador.

Life

He received his doctorate in law and political science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . He did research on public law at the University of Berlin. After the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948, he witnessed the Bogotazo .

Luis Villar Borda was persecuted from 1954 under the regime of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and went into exile. He was a member of the Movimiento Revolucionario Liberal (MRL), friend of Gabriel García Márquez, Camilo Torres and Alfonso López Michelsen.

In 1968, during the government of Carlos Lleras Restrepo , Villar was spokesman for the Constitutional Reform Commission. He was ambassador to Stockholm from 1970 to 1973 , where he headed the Colombian delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1972 . In 1974, during the government of Alfonso López Michelsen , he was chairman of the parliament .

He was a member of the Colombian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations and to the OIT . From 1983 to June 18, 1988 he was ambassador to Beijing . He was ambassador to Berlin from June 18, 1988 to 1990 .

Luis Villar Borda was a member of the Hans Kelsen Institute .

He died in Bogotá in 2008 at the age of 78.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ El Espectador , July 31, 2008, Luis Villar Borda
  2. ↑ Murió ex embajador Luis Villar Borda . In: El Tiempo of July 24, 2008 (Spanish).
predecessor Office successor
Guillermo Nannetti Concha Colombian ambassador to Stockholm from
1970 to 1973 		Zamir Eduardo Silva Amín
Alfonso Gómez Gómez Colombian ambassador to Beijing from
1984 to May 1988 		José María Gómez Osorio
Ramses Hakim-Murad Colombian ambassador in Berlin
June 18, 1988 to 1990 		Ricardo Sala Gaitán
personal data
SURNAME Villar Borda, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2008
Place of death Bogotá