Edgar C. Otálvora Explained

Edgar C. Otálvora
Birth Date:6 September 1959
Birth Place:Tovar, Mérida, Venezuela
Occupation:Columnist, writer, diplomatic, policy analyst, journalist
Education:Economist, historian
Alma Mater:University of the Andes (Venezuela)
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Spouse:Olga Hernáiz Arnal

Edgar C. Otálvora[1] (born Edgar Omar Contreras Otálvora; September 6, 1959 in Tovar, Mérida State, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan intellectual, journalist, and politician who 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[2] the newspaper El Nuevo Pais[3] in Caracas from 2006 to 2010. He is a professor at the Central University of Venezuela. He was a close collaborator of former Venezuelan president Ramón J. Velásquez. He has cultivated the biographical genre, being the first to write biographies of the 19th century Venezuelan presidents Raimundo Andueza Palacio[4] [5] and Juan Pablo Rojas Paul,[6] [7] as well as the Colombian president Virgilio Barco Vargas.[8] Columnist in Diario Las Américas of Miami.

Public career

He obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of the Andes, Venezuela 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 Central University of Venezuela.In 1990, he was named Executive Secretary of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF).[9] 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 Carlos Andrés Pérez. From 1994 to 1999 he was Chief of the Political Departments of the Venezuelan embassies in Bogotá and Brasilia, as well as Consul General in Belém do Pará, Brazil.[10] He has been a consultant and advisor for Hewlett-Packard NCA Latin America, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Journalism career

His journalism career began in 1980 as a columnist for the Diario Frontera in 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 Bogotá. 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.[11] [12] [13] Editor of the news web portal Noticias Clic since 2011.[14] Columnist in Diario Las Américas of Miami since March 2014.

Conceptual art

In the 1980s he ventured into conceptual art and together with Luis Astorga Junquera created the Pleonasmo Group [15] oriented towards performance art. He participated in the XLI Salon of Visual Arts "Arturo Michelena" (Valencia Atheneum, Valencia, 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 Caracas.

Books and academic articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cuadernos del Cendes. Autores . 10 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327161142/http://sala.clacso.org.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0cendes--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-es-Zz-1---20-help---00031-001-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=CL2.1&d=HASH01c9166868d23a262177b127.5.1 . 27 March 2012 .
  2. Web site: Directorio de Medios Venezolanos-UCAB/ Diario El Nuevo País . 6 September 2020 . .
  3. Web site: Chávez acosa a un diario…. Diario El Mundo. Madrid . 11 June 2011 .
  4. Web site: Video. Raimundo Andueza Palacio biography based on the book by Edgar C. Otálvora (Globovision). YouTube. 11 June 2011 .
  5. Book: B005CDICMS . Raimundo Andueza Palacio. Biography . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  6. Web site: Indice del Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia de Venezuela. 11 June 2011 .
  7. Book: B005CDIBEM . Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl. Biography . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  8. Book: B0050D1QAA . Un barco liberal. Ebook . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  9. Book: Pompeyo Márquez cuenta sobre la COPAF . 9789802633456 . 11 July 2011 . Márquez . Pompeyo . 2002 .
  10. Web site: Se autoriza al ciudadano Edgar C. Otálvora para aceptar y usar la condecoración Orden del Mérito Gran Pará . 14 July 2011 .
  11. Web site: El Informe Otálvora en Webarticulista. . 13 July 2011 .
  12. Web site: Relatorio Otálvora en DEFESANET (Brazil). . 3 September 2018 .
  13. Web site: Informe Otálvora en Runrun.es (Venezuela). . 4 September 2018 .
  14. Web site: Noticias Clic. . 29 December 2011 .
  15. Web site: «"Lo que vi, lo que escuché, lo que viví, lo que rozó mi piel". Carlos Zerpa en "Perforrmance y arte-acción en América Latina" (spanish). . 1 May 2023 .
  16. Web site: Full text: La Diplomacia Militar en Suramérica. Alianzas y Rupturas en 2008.. 11 June 2011 .
  17. Web site: Full text: Aproximación a la agenda de seguridad de Venezuela con Brasil . es . Edgar C. Otálvora . 14 July 2011 .
  18. Book: La Crisis de la Corbeta Caldas. Google libros. . es . Edgar C. Otálvora . 2003 . 9789806406551 . 14 July 2011 .
  19. Book: B0050E2N56. La Crisis de la Corbeta Caldas. Ebook . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  20. Web site: Full text: Frontera en tiempos de globalización. El proyecto ZIF . es . 13 July 2011.
  21. Book: B00507QJYE . La Paz Ramónica. . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  22. Book: EUSTOQUIO GOMEZ. Google libros . es . Edgar C. Otálvora . 1993 . 9789802901128 . 14 July 2011 .
  23. Book: B0052ELX3C . EUSTOQUIO. Ebook . es . Edgar C. Otálvora .
  24. Book: La frontera occidental venezolana. Google libros. . es . COPAF . 1992 . 9789800301234 . 14 July 2011 .

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