Jaime Aparicio Otero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jaime Aparicio Otero

ambassador

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1955

Place of Birth: La Paz, La Paz Department, Bolivia

Profession: lawyer, diplomat, journalist

Nationality: Bolivia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jaime Aparicio Otero

  • Jaime Aparicio Otero (born August 30, 1955 in La Paz, Bolivia ) is the Bolivian Ambassador to the Organization of American States.
  • Ambassador Aparicio is a career diplomat, lawyer, journalist and a Washington-based legal and political advisor.
  • He is also a political analyst working in international public and corporate affairs in Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.
  • He has a Law Degree from the Higher University of San AndrĂ©s of La Paz, the Sorbonne University and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.Aparicio has been working in issues related to international law, democracy, human rights, and rule of law in Latin America for more than 30 years.
  • Aparicio's firm, Aparicio, Arp & Associates LLC, has submitted petitions to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission representing, among others, the Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez.
  • and the "Ladies in White" Group (Damas de Blanco). More recently, he represented the French Maude Versini.He was the Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States (2002-2006) and was later President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the OAS. Previously, he worked at the Organization of American States as Executive Secretary of the Summits of the Americas. Before that, he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. Aparicio led several missions to the General Assembly of the United Nations, UNESCO and the Organization of American States. He has also served abroad in Venezuela and France as Bolivia's Permanent Representative to UNESCO in Paris.In 2019, Aparicio sued President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) after Ortega jumped a constitutional ban on presidential re-election with help from a Supreme Court filled with his supporters setting a major precedent for similar unconstitutional re-elections across the continent and more especially of his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales. Aparicio has become one of the most vocal opponents to dictatorships across Latin America, especially in Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

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