José Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros is a Peruvian

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. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

from 2003 to 2005, during Alejandro Toledo's presidency, and later was appointed ambassador to Bolivia in 2010.

Biography

Son of Elva Maria Cuadros Escobedo and the educator José Gabriel Rodríguez Figueroa. He completed his primary studies at the Salesiano College of Cusco, and his secondary studies were carried out at the Great Ricardo Palma School Unit in Lima. He entered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, where he studied Law and Political Science; after that he studied at the Diplomatic Academy of Peru. He has a master's degree in International Law and International Relations at the University of Paris V René Descartes, as well as a doctorate in International Law with a major in International Development Law at the same university. In 1974, when the Peruvian press was expropriated by the dictatorial government of

Juan Velasco Alvarado Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian Army general, general who served as the President of Peru after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency ...

, he was an editorial writer for the newspaper Correo de Lima and a political commentator for channel 5 of Peruvian television. In 2001, he served as Permanent Representative of Peru to the Organization of American States. Between 1992 and 1993, he served as senior advisor to the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in El Salvador. At the end of December 1992, he was dismissed from the Peruvian diplomatic service by the government of Alberto Fujimori. In 1993 he was appointed "Senior Political Officer" in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs. In Geneva, in April 2000, he was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, for a period of four years, a member of the Sub-Commission of the aforementioned organism for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In 2005 he assumed the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament based in Geneva, and in 2006 he was President of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He is an Associate member of the "Peruvian Center for International Relations", of the "Peruvian International Relations Forum", of the "French Institute of International Relations", of the "Swiss International Relations Forum", of the "Latin American Association of Public International Law" and of the "Peruvian Society of International Law". Since the beginning of 2009, he is president of the "Latin American Institute of International Law and International Relations - ILADIR".

Diplomatic career

Cuadros was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of

from 2003 and 2005, and was named ambassador of

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

in 2010. He has also served as a

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Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

and

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2011 presidential campaign

He was the candidate of Fuerza Social for the Presidency of

in the Peruvian general election of 2011. He quit the presidential race on March 18, 2011.

References

http://elcomercio.pe/politica/729545/noticia-manuel-rodriguez-cuadros-renuncio-su-candidatura-presidencial

External links

Personal website

Personal blog
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Biography

Diplomatic career

2011 presidential campaign

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