Eduardo Díez de Medina (8 February 1881 – 27 June 1955), was born in

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, and was Bolivia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship on three occasions. In 1941 Diez de Medina submitted himself to trial after he was accused of selling life-saving Bolivian visas to up to 15,000 Jews in Europe during

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Political career

Medina was Bolivia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship in 1923, 1925, and from 1936 to 1939. He signed on 9 July 1925 the Carillo-Diez de Medina treaty with

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representative Horacio Carillo, which settled a long border dispute between Argentina and Bolivia. He also negotiated with

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Frank B. Kellogg a plan to grant Bolivia the city of

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, thereby granting it access to the sea. The plan, which was to result from an American mediation between Peru and Chile, failed due to a change in U.S. foreign policy following the election of President

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. Diez de Medina also enacted, together with

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vian emissary M. Elias Bonemaison, the Treaty of 23 September 1902, which demarcated the border between Bolivia and Peru. In addition, he served as

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liaison to the

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. In 1941 Diez de Medina fell out of favor amidst a

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political climate when he voluntarily submitted himself to trial after he was accused of selling life-saving Bolivian visas to up to 15,000 Jews in

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and

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. Over 1,000 blank immigration permits were found for distribution in Warsaw,

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, and

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References

*http://www.argentina-rree.com/7/7-069.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20050411104310/http://www.rree.gov.bo/MINISTERIO/Ministros.htm *http://www.boliviaweb.com/mar/capitulo11.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20051220085409/http://www.rree.gob.pe/portal/pexterior.nsf/0/71678f6d2373afad05256c5b0076c3bc?OpenDocument * ;Specific {{DEFAULTSORT:Diez de Medina, Eduardo 1881 births 1955 deaths People from La Paz Foreign ministers of Bolivia Bolivian diplomats