Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus is a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist, named ambassador from Venezuela to Argentina by Juan Guaidó during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, and recognized immediately by Argentine president Mauricio Macri.[1] The following administration of Alberto Fernández removed Trotta Gamus credentials.[2]
Elisa Trotta Gamus | |
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| Ambassador of Venezuela to Argentina | |
| In office 29 January 2019 – 7 January 2020 | |
| Appointed by | National Assembly of Venezuela |
| President | Juan Guaidó |
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| Born | Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Occupation | Lawyer, diplomat |
Biography edit
Trotta Gamus was born in Venezuela.[1] Her mother was communist.[1] Her father is Argentine lawyer Alberto Trotta, who was a political prisoner, went into exile in 1975, spent time in Venezuela, and had his family while there.[1] She obtained her law degree from the Central University of Venezuela, and two master's degrees from Brandeis University in Boston,[3] where she was a Fulbright scholar.[4] She has been living in Argentina since 2011.[1]
Trotta Gamus specialized in human rights and international law.[4] She was director of institutional programs for the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, working for governor María Eugenia Vidal.[1] She was also president of Alianza por Venezuela,[1] a network of exiled Venezuelans,[4]and was a diplomat to the Latin American Jewish Congress [5]
Personal life edit
She is a chavismo critic, saying that Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro created a "narcostate".[6] She is Jewish.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g "La bolilla que faltaba: la nueva embajadora venezolana nombrada por Gaidó vive desde hace años en Buenos Aires y es funcionaria de Cambiemos". info135 (in Spanish). 30 January 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "Argentina revokes credentials of representative for Venezuela's Guaido". Reuters. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "Elisa Trotta Gamus". Schusterman Family Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019. and "Elisa Trotta Gamus – Young Leadership Board:Buenos Aries". AlmaLinks. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Elisa Trotta Gamus, la abogada de 36 años elegida por Guaidó para la Argentina". La Nacion (in Spanish). 30 January 2019. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Trotta Gamus, Elisa (13 November 2015). "Respuestas para un desastre humano". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Elisa Trotta, la abogada de estrecho vínculo con el macrismo que Guaidó eligió como representante". El Canciller (in Spanish). 29 January 2019. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
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