| Jorge Visbal Martelo | |
| Office: | Colombian ambassador to Peru |
| Term Start: | 2 February 2011 |
| Term End: | 14 March 2012 |
| Predecessor: | María Claudia Mosquera Jaramillo |
| Successor: | Luis Eladio Pérez Bonilla |
| President: | Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
| Office2: | Senator of Colombia |
| Term Start2: | 3 June 2007 |
| Term End2: | 29 May 2009 |
| Predecessor2: | Luis Guillermo Vélez Trujillo |
| Ambassador From3: | Colombia |
| Country3: | Canada |
| Term Start3: | 2 September 2004 |
| Term End3: | September 2005 |
| Predecessor3: | Fanny Kertzman Yankelevitch |
| Successor3: | Jaime Girón Duarte |
| President3: | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Corozal, Sucre, Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Party: | Party of the U (2006-present) |
| Alma Mater: | Externado University (BBA, 1983) |
Jorge Aníbal Visbal Martelo (born 26 June 1953) is a Colombian politician, livestock and landowner, and convicted criminal.
Visbal Martelo was the president of the Colombian Association of Stockbreeders between 1991 and 2004. He was found guilty of collaboration and conspiracy with paramilitary groups between 1998 and 2005 for the promotion and expansion of this army.[1]
On 13 July 2004,[2] President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appointed Visbal as Ambassador of Colombia to Canada.[2] He was sworn in on July 16,[3] [4]
In late 2005 it was announced that Ambassador Visbal would resign to run for Congress in the 2006 legislative elections, but fail to earn a seat in Congress. In 2007 however, following the death of Senator Luis Guillermo Vélez Trujillo a Party of the U politician, Visbal was selected by the party to replace him in Congress as a Senator of Colombia.
He served as ambassador to Peru between 2010 and 2012 by appointment of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. He was sworn in on January 21, 2011.[5] In March 2012 he stepped down due to pre-trial detention on charges for conspiracy to commit crimes in association with right-wing paramilitary groups.[6]
Visbal Martelo was found guilty of conspiracy to commit crimes in association with paramilitary groups in June 2018 and sentenced to nine years in prison and a fine.[7]