José Fernando Bautista Quintero (1963 – 8 August 2024) was a Colombian lawyer and politician. Bautista was appointed
Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela
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by
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
An economist by profession and a journalist by trade ...
to mend relations with the administration of
President Hugo Chávez Frías after the
2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
The 2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between Colombia and Venezuela over allegations in July by Colombian President Álvaro Uribe that the Venezuelan government was actively permitting the FARC and ELN guerri ...
that had driven the two neighbouring nations to the brink of armed conflict. He also served as the President of the Agrarian Bank of Colombia,
Minister of Communications, Mayor of
Cúcuta
Cúcuta (), officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern ...
, and Colombian
Consul in
Pretoria, and
São Paulo.
Minister of Communications
In 1996 while serving as General Secretary of the
Colombian Liberal Party,
President Ernesto Samper Pizano
Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 3 August 1950) is a Colombian politician. Samper is a member of the influential Samper family. He served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998, representing the Liberal Party. From 2014 to 2017 he served as ...
appointed Bautista as
Deputy Minister of Communications, officially being sworn in on 27 August 1996. The next year on 26 August 1997, Bautista was appointed
Minister of Communications replacing his former boss Saulo Arboleda Gómez.
Personal life and death
Bautista was born in Cúcuta
to Jorge Bautista Hernández and Blanca Quintero Mora.
Bautista died in
Lisbon
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on 8 August 2024. He had been in ill health for the last few days of his life and was comatose, having been admitted to hospital in that city after suffering a heart attack whilst en route to
Porto.
References
1963 births
2024 deaths
People from Bogotá
Free University of Colombia alumni
20th-century Colombian lawyers
Social Party of National Unity politicians
Colombian Liberal Party politicians
Ministers of communications of Colombia
Mayors of places in Colombia
People from Cúcuta
Ambassadors of Colombia to Venezuela
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