List of ambassadors of Venezuela to Peru

Ambassador of Venezuela to Peru
Coat of arms of Venezuela
Incumbent Alexander Yáñez since March 22, 2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Appointer	The President of Venezuela
Inaugural holder	Andrés María Álvarez [1]
Formation	1845

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Venezuela to the Republic of Peru is the official representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the Republic of Peru.

Relations between both countries were established in 1853, ^[2] and relations have been continued since, although relations have twice been frozen (but never severed): ^[3] in 2001, over a dispute regarding the extradition of Vladimiro Montesinos, ^[4] and in 2017, when Peru recalled its ambassador and expelled its Venezuelan counterpart. ^[5]

List of representatives

Name	Portrait	Appointed	Letters of credence / Exequatur	Term end	Head of state	Notes
Andrés María Álvarez		December 6, 1845	September 15, 1846	January 2, 1860	Carlos Soublette	As Consul of Venezuela in Lima. [1]
Germán Suárez Flamerich		May 20, 1950	June 24, 1950	November 24, 1950	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Juan García Gruber		1953		?	Marcos Pérez Jiménez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Gabriel Briceño Pacheco		March 5, 1958	April 10, 1958	October 9, 1959	Wolfgang Larrazábal	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Arturo Briceño		October 9, 1959	November 21, 1959	April 22, 1964	Rómulo Betancourt	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Juan Ernesto Rothe Farbos		April 22, 1964	May 19, 1964	May 6, 1966	Raúl Leoni	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Esteban Rodríguez Landaeta		May 6, 1966	May 26, 1966	May 17, 1968	Raúl Leoni	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Julio Ramos		May 17, 1968	June 1968	October 25, 1968	Raúl Leoni	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [1]
Relations severed by Venezuela due to the 1992 Peruvian self-coup [6]
Horacio Arteaga Acosta			November 10, 1993 [6]		Ramón José Velásquez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was a hostage during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis from December 17 to 22. [7] [8] [9]
Rodrigo Arcaya Smith		June 21, 2000	December 7, 2000	?	Hugo Chávez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Gonzalo Jesús Gómez Jaén		August 21, 2000	September 15, 2000	after July 2004 [10]	Hugo Chávez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [11]
Cruz Manuel Martínez Ramírez		August 8, 2005	2005	May 2006 [12] [13]	Hugo Chávez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. [14] [15]
Relations suspended between both countries after a diplomatic incident
Armando José Laguna		February 2007 [16]		after March 2009 [17]	Hugo Chávez	As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; [18] first representative after the severing of relations. [19] After his term, he left for Honduras. [20]
Arístides Medina Rubio		August 2009 [21]	N/A	N/A	Hugo Chávez	His appointment was made official on December 14, 2009. However, it was annulled before he could take office one month later due to a political crisis involving the Peruvian approval of Manuel Rosales's request for political asylum and due to the fact that Medina was under house arrest after being accused of sexually assaulting the underaged daughter of Héctor Soto, Venezuela's then Culture Minister. [22]
Alexander Yáñez  [ es ]		June 11, 2010		July 2014	Hugo Chávez	First served as the embassy's third secretary, being appointed as chargé d'affaires on June 11. [23] [24] [25] During his tenure as ambassador, which lasted until July 2014, [26] he was in charge of the embassy's ceremonies during the death of Hugo Chávez, which included a book of condolence [27] and the flag at half-mast. [28] [29]
Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia		2014 [30]	October 2014	July 11, 2017	Nicolás Maduro	During his tenure, bilateral relations were frozen and he was expelled on July 11, 2017. [31]
Relations suspended by Peru; Juan Guaidó recognised as president in 2019
Carlos Eduardo Scull Raygada		January 29, 2019 [32]	February 21, 2019 [33]	January 2022	Juan Guaidó	After Peru suspended its relations in 2017, officially recognising Juan Guaidó as the legitimate head of state of Venezuela, Scull was appointed by the National Assembly as the diplomatic representative to Peru. [34] During this period, the Venezuelan embassy in Lima remained open, although relations were only maintained to a consular level. [35] Due to Scull's inability and unwillingness to occupy the embassy to avoid another diplomatic incident, [36] a parallel embassy was opened in the district of Pueblo Libre until 2021. [37]
Relations normalised in 2021; Maduro recognised by Peru again
Alexander Yáñez		October 15, 2021 [35]	March 22, 2022	Incumbent	Nicolás Maduro	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Appointed after the normalisation of bilateral relations. [35]

See also

• Peru–Venezuela relations
• List of ambassadors of Peru to Venezuela

References

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35. "El embajador de Nicolás Maduro entrega cartas credenciales a Pedro Castillo". Agencia EFE . Gestión. 2022-03-22.
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