José Fernando Bautista Quintero

José Fernando Bautista Quintero
José Fernando Bautista Quintero
Colombia Ambassador to Venezuela
	In office; 6 December 2010 – 12 May 2011
President	Juan Manuel Santos
Preceded by	María Luisa Chiappe
Succeeded by	Carlos Cure Cure
4th President of the Agrarian Bank of Colombia
	In office; 31 August 2006 – 27 July 2007
President	Álvaro Uribe
Preceded by	César Pardo
Succeeded by	David Guerrero
Mayor of Cúcuta
	In office; 2 August 1999 – 14 November 2000
Governor	Jorge Alberto García
Preceded by	José Gélvez Albarracín
Succeeded by	Betty Parada Montes
42nd Minister of Communications
	In office; 26 August 1997 – 7 August 1998
Preceded by	Saulo Arboleda Gómez
Succeeded by	Claudia de Francisco
Personal details
Born	Cúcuta, North Santander, Colombia
Political party	Party of the U (2005–present)
Other political; affiliations	Liberal (until 2005)
Domestic partner	Ángela Sofía Garzón Caicedo (m. 2007⁠–⁠2012)
Alma mater	Free University of Colombia (LLB)
Profession	Lawyer

José Fernando Bautista Quintero is a Colombian lawyer and politician. Bautista was appointed Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón to mend relations with the administration of President Hugo Chávez Frías after the 2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis that had driven the two neighbouring nations to the brink of armed conflict. He has also served as the President of the Agrarian Bank of Colombia, Minister of Communications, Mayor of Cúcuta, and Colombian Consul in Pretoria, and São Paulo.

Minister of Communications[edit]

In 1996 while serving as General Secretary of the Colombian Liberal Party, President Ernesto Samper Pizano appointed Bautista as Deputy Minister of Communications, officially being sworn in on 27 August 1996.^[1] The next year on 26 August 1997,^[2] Bautista was appointed Minister of Communications replacing his former boss Saulo Arboleda Gómez.^[3]^[4]

He was born in Cúcuta^[5] to Jorge Bautista Hernández and Blanca Quintero Mora.

^ "Al Mediodia de Hoy" [At Noon Today]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1996-08-27. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
^ "Hoy a las 11 AM" [Today at 11AM]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1997-08-26. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
^ "Sentencia nº 2406 de Seccion Quinta, 4 de Septiembre de 2000" [Sentence No. 2406 of the Fifth Circuit] (in Spanish). Council of State of Colombia. 2000-09-04. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
^ "Gobierno Bolivariano recibe Cartas Credenciales de 18 embajadores" [Boliviarian Government receives Letters of Credence of 18 ambassadors] (in Spanish). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela. 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
^ "Nuevo Embajador de Colombia en Venezuela dijo sentirse honrado por su nombramiento" [New ambassador of Colombia in Venezuela: said to be honorable for his new job]. El País (in Spanish). 2010-08-10. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2012-06-30.

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