| Carlos Echeverri Cortés | |
| Order: | 5th |
| Office: | Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations |
| Term Start: | August 1952 |
| President: | Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez |
| Predecessor: | Elíseo Arango Ramos |
| Successor: | Evaristo Sourdis Juliao |
| Order2: | 27th |
| Office2: | Ministry of Information Technologies and CommunicationsColombian Minister of Posts and Telegraphs |
| President2: | Laureano Gómez Castro Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez |
| Predecessor2: | José Tomás Angulo |
| Successor2: | Carlos Albornoz |
| Office3: | 6th Colombian Ambassador to Peru |
| President3: | Mariano Ospina Pérez |
| Successor3: | Eduardo Zuleta Ángel |
| Ambassador From4: | Colombian |
| Country4: | Mexico |
| Term Start4: | 1945 |
| Predecessor4: | Jorge Zalamea Borda |
| Successor4: | Carlos Arango Vélez |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Death Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Spouse: | Gloria Rodríguez García |
| Alma Mater: | University of London |
| Profession: | Economist |
Carlos Echeverri Cortés (23 June 1900 – 14 March 1974)[1] [2] was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as ad interim fifth Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and as Ambassador of Colombia to Peru and Mexico.[3] [4] During his ambassadorship in Peru he became an enemy of the administration of President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti for granting political asylum to the politician Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, an action that drove the Peruvian Government to mount a five-year struggle harassing embassy staff and personnel, and forming a military blockade around the Colombian Embassy where Haya was housed, this because Lima had refused to grant safe conduct for Haya to leave the country and Ambassador Echeverri refused to give him up.[5]