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Edgar C. Otálvora (born Edgar Omar Contreras Otálvora; 6 September 1959) is a Venezuelan intellectual, journalist and politician. He has held government and diplomatic positions. He is an expert in international politics and economics, and has distinguished himself as an analyst of Latin American topics, with a focus on military, diplomatic, and political issues. He has been a columnist in Venezuelans and Americans newspapers, in addition to directing the newspaper El Nuevo Pais in Caracas from 2006 to 2010. He is a professor at the
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. He was a close collaborator of former Venezuelan president
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. He has cultivated the biographical genre, being the first to write biographies of the 19th century Venezuelan presidents Raimundo Andueza Palacio and Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, as well as the Colombian president
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. Columnist in
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Public career

Otálvora was born on 6 September 1959 in Tovar. He obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the
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in 1982 and in 2003 was awarded a master's degree in History of the Americas. He has taught at the School of International Studies and the graduate History of the Americas program at the
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. In 1990, he was named Executive Secretary of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF). In 1993 he began the role of General Director of the Ministry of the Secretariat of the Presidency, alongside Ramón J. Velásquez, who would be declared president by the National Congress after a case was opened against then-president
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. From 1994 to 1999 he was Chief of the Political Departments of the Venezuelan embassies in
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and
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, as well as
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in
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,
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. He has been a consultant and advisor for
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Journalism career

His journalism career began in 1980 as a columnist for the
Diario Frontera ''Diario Frontera'' is a Venezuelan regional newspaper, headquartered in Ejido, in the state of Mérida.Mérida. He was part of the writing team of the Revista AZUL of the University of the Andes. His opinion columns were first published in 1982 in the newspaper El Nacional in Caracas and, soon after, in the newspaper '' El Universal'' as a critic in the Cultural Pages directed by Sofía Imber. In the mid-1990s, he directed the magazine Venezuela en Colombia, edited in
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. Specializing in topics in Latin American politics, he wrote the column Mirando el Vecindario (Looking Around the Neighborhood) in the newspaper '' El Mundo'' from 2004 to 2006. Upon taking the role of director of the newspaper '' El Nuevo País'', he began production of Informe Otálvora, appearing in numerous online publications in Latin America. Editor of the news web portal Noticias Clic since 2011. Columnist in
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of
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since March 2014.


Conceptual art

In the 1980s he ventured into conceptual art and together with Luis Astorga Junquera created the Pleonasmo Group oriented towards
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. He participated in the XLI Salon of Visual Arts "
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" (Valencia Atheneum,
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, 1982), the first occasion in which this salon opened the competition to "unconventional art". In 1983 the Pleonasmo Group was invited to the exhibition "Autoretrato" in the gallery "Espacio Alterno" of the National Art Gallery located in the Caracas Athenaeum, as part of the programming of the V International Theater Festival of
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.


Books and academic articles

* Venezuela de Trump a Trump (pasando por Biden) (2025) * Venezuela Juego Trancado (2020) - * De Caracas a Brasilia 46 años in Brasil:cercano y lejano (Edmundo González Urrutia. Coordinator. Caracas. Instituto de Estudios Parlamentario Fermín Toro - UCAB. 2019) *Venezuela un problema global- Ebook. (2019) *Venezolanos en Fuga- Ebook. (2014) *La Década Roja de América Latina. Ebook. (2013) * CASTRO & CHAVEZ (English edition) (2011) *Un Barco Liberal (2011). (Biography of
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) *Cooperación, integración o fusión militar en Suramérica (''Cooperation, integration or merging of the armed forces in South America'') in "Venezuela en el contexto de la seguridad regional" (Caracas, ILDIS, 2007) *Retos y perspectivas de la integración energética en América Latina.(Coauthor). Kart-Peter Schütt y Flavio Carucci (Coordinators). (Caracas, ILDIS - Fundación Friedriech Ebert, 2007) * Raimundo Andueza Palacio. (''Biography'').(Caracas, Biblioteca Biográfica Venezolana-Diario El Nacional, 2006). ''Digital Edition'': *Aproximación a la agenda de seguridad de Venezuela con Brasil. (''Approach to the security of Venezuela with Brazil agenda'') (Caracas, ILDIS - Fundación Friedriech Ebert, 2005) *
Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl (26 November 1826 – 22 July 1905) was the president of Venezuela from 1888 to 1890. He was the first civilian president who was elected by constitutional procedures in 50 years, and the only one who could finish his ...
. (''Biography'').(Caracas, Biblioteca Biográfica Venezolana-Diario El Nacional, 2005. ''Digital Edition'': *La Crisis de la Corbeta Caldas. (''The Crisis of the Corvette Caldas''). (Caracas, Editorial Pomaire, 2003). Includes biographies of the former presidents Jaime Lusinchi and Virgilio Barco Vargas. ''Digital Edition'': *RJV: La red de Liberales y Socialdemócratas. (''RJV: Liberals and Social Democrats network'') in "Ramón J. Velásquez. Estudios sobre una trayectoria al servicio de Venezuela". (Caracas,
Universidad Metropolitana The Metropolitan University () (Unimet) is a Venezuelan university founded in 1970 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa in the terrains donated by the businessman Pius Schlageter, father of the Venezuelan painter Eduard ...
- Universidad de los Andes-Núcleo Táchira, 2003) *Frontera en Tiempos de Globalización: El proyecto ZIF. (''Border in times of globalization: the ZIF project'') (Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Vol. 9, No.1, enero-abril 2003) *La Paz Ramónica. (''The Ramónica peace. Diary of a transitional Government in Venezuela''). (Caracas, Editorial Pomaire, 1994) *Eustoquio. (Biography of :es:Eustoquio Gómez). (Caracas, Editorial Pomaire, 1993. Second Edition) *La Frontera Occidental Venezolana: Un análisis tendencial (''The border West of Venezuela: A trend analysis''). In "La Frontera Occidental Venezolana. Propuestas de Política". (Coauthor). (Caracas, Comisión Presidencial para Asuntos Fronterizos Colombo-Venezolanos, 1992) *El Estado venezolano en la era del
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: La política informática del Estado venezolano. (''The Venezuelan State in the era of
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'') In "27 Temas sobre Venezuela". (Caracas, Ediciones del Congreso de la República, 1988) * París Mayo Junio 1968.(Mérida, Colección La Senda y El Surco. Facultad de Economía. Universidad de los Andes, 1980)


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External links


X (Twitter) page Ecotalvora

Edgar C. Otálvora Foro "Quo Vadis Venezuela"
at Interamerican Institute for Democracy.
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