Germán Santa María Barragán Explained

Germán Santa María Barragán
Order:	23rd
Ambassador From:	Colombia
Country:	Portugal
Term Start:	31 May 2011
Predecessor:	Arturo Sarabia Better
President:	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Birthname:	Germán Santamaría Barragán
Birth Date:	24 January 1950
Birth Place:	Líbano, Tolima, Colombia
Nationality:	Colombian
Occupation:	Journalist, writer

Germán Santa María Barragán (born 24 January 1950)^[1] is the current Ambassador of Colombia to Portugal.^[2] A renowned journalist in Colombia, he is a five-time winner of the Simón Bolívar National Award in Journalism, and twice served as president of the Bogotá Circle of Journalists; he has been a contributor for El Tiempo for eleven years, and editor-in-chief of Diners magazine since 1999.^[3] As a writer, his novel No Morirás won the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Award, and was turned into a made-for-television film by director Jorge Alí Triana and aired in 1997.

Ambassadorship

Santa María was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Portugal on 2 March 2011 by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón at a ceremony at the Palace of Nariño.^[4] Santa María presented his Letters of Credence to the President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, on 31 May 2011 during a ceremony at the Belém Palace.^[5] As Ambassador to Portugal, Santa María is also accredited as Non-Resident Ambassador of Colombia to the African nations of Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.^[6]

Selected works

• Book: Los Días del Calor . The Days of Heat . 1970 . Ediciones Punto Rojo . Bogotá . 2019584 .
• Book: Marilyn . 1974 . . Ibagué . 1671936 .
• Book: Morir Último . To Die Last . 1978 . Carlos Valencia Editores . Bogotá . 978-84-8277-001-7 . 5100647 .
• Book: Crónicas . Chronicles . Colección Narrativa (5) . 1981 . Instituto Tolimense de Cultura . Ibagué . 9195855 .
• Book: Colombia Y Otras Sangres: Díez Años de Periodismo . Colombia and Other Blood: Ten Years of Journalism . 1987 . Planeta Editores . Bogotá . 978-958-614-248-9 . 17793253.
• Book: No Morirás . You Will Not Die . 1992 . Editorial Oveja Negra . Bogotá . 978-958-06-0084-8 . 253099556.
  • News: Diana Lloreda . 7 February 1993 . NO MORIRÁS: Germán Santamaría. Editorial Oveja Negra; Bogotá,1992 . El Tiempo . Review .

See also

• Orlando Sardi de Lima

Notes and References

1. Toda Una Vida en El Tiempo . A Whole Life in El Tiempo . . es . 11 April 2011 .
2. Web site: Germán Santamaría Barragán, nuevo Embajador de Colombia en Portugal . Germán Santamaría Barragán, new Ambassador of Colombia in Portugal . 10 April 2011 . es . 2 March 2011 . Bogotá . Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG).
3. Web site: ¡Hasta pronto, Germán! . Patricia . Lara Salive . . 10 April 2011 . es . So Long Germán! . https://web.archive.org/web/20120311131636/http://www.revistadiners.com.co/nuevo/interna.php?idn=959&idm=3 . 11 March 2012 . dead .
4. Web site: Germán Santamaría Barragán, nuevo Embajador de Colombia en Portugal. Colombia, Press Office of the President of. 8 April 2013. Bogotá. es. 2 March 2011.
5. Web site: President of the Republic receives letters credential from new Ambassadors to Portugal. Portugal, Office of the President of. 8 April 2013. Lisbon. 31 May 2011.
6. Colombia, President of. President of Colombia. 20 June 2011. Decreto 2182 de 2011. Diario Oficial. 48,107. Bogotá. Colombia, National Printing Office. es. decree. 0122-2112. 500057889. 14 December 2012.