Elisa Trotta Gamus
Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist
Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus is a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist, named ambassador from Venezuela to Argentina by Juan Guaidó during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis , and recognized immediately by Argentine president Mauricio Macri . [1] The following administration of Alberto Fernández removed Trotta Gamus credentials. [2]
Biography
Trotta Gamus was born in Venezuela. [1] Her mother was communist. [1] Her father is Argentine lawyer Alberto Trotta, who was a political prisoner, went into exile in 1975, spent time in Venezuela, and had his family while there. [1] She obtained her law degree from the Central University of Venezuela , and two master's degrees from Brandeis University in Boston, [3] where she was a Fulbright scholar . [4] She has been living in Argentina since 2011. [1]
Trotta Gamus specialized in human rights and international law. [4] She was director of institutional programs for the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, working for governor María Eugenia Vidal . [1] She was also president of Alianza por Venezuela, [1] a network of exiled Venezuelans. [4]
She is a chavismo critic, saying that Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro created a "narcostate". [5] She is Jewish, [5] and was a diplomat to the Latin American Jewish Congress [6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "La bolilla que faltaba: la nueva embajadora venezolana nombrada por Gaidó vive desde hace años en Buenos Aires y es funcionaria de Cambiemos" . info135 (in Spanish). 30 January 2019 . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
- ↑ "Argentina revokes credentials of representative for Venezuela's Guaido" . Reuters . 7 January 2020 . Retrieved 10 January 2020 .
- ↑ "Elisa Trotta Gamus" . Schusterman Family Foundation . Retrieved 2 February 2019 . and "Elisa Trotta Gamus – Young Leadership Board:Buenos Aries" . AlmaLinks . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
- 1 2 3 "Elisa Trotta Gamus, la abogada de 36 años elegida por Guaidó para la Argentina" . La Nacion (in Spanish). 30 January 2019 . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
- 1 2 "Elisa Trotta, la abogada de estrecho vínculo con el macrismo que Guaidó eligió como representante" . El Canciller (in Spanish). 29 January 2019 . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
- ↑ Trotta Gamus, Elisa (13 November 2015). "Respuestas para un desastre humano" . El País (in Spanish) . Retrieved 1 February 2019 .
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