Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas
Venezuelan politician (1922–2003)
Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (8 July 1922 – 22 October 2003), was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, presidential candidate in 1968 and 1973. He was Director General of the Ministry of Interior Affairs; and also Minister of Justice (in 1964) and Minister of Foreign Affairs, between 1994 and 1999. He was a candidate to be Secretary of the Organization of American States (OEA) in 1994.
Biography
Burelli Rivas, was born in La Puerta, Venezuela. His father's ancestors came from the Italian island of Elba (Tuscany) in the 19th century.
He graduated as lawyer with a post-graduate degree in Political Sciences in University of Florence and a post-graduate degree in law from the University of Madrid, Spain. Miguel Angel Burelli spoke fluently Italian, English, French, Portuguese and of course Spanish.
He was forced into exile in Spain in the mid-1950s under Marcos Pérez Jiménez. There he married María Briceño Picón, daughter of writer & politician Mario Briceño Iragorry.
He served as Director of the National Electoral Council (CNE); Minister of Justice; Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States; Ambassador of Venezuela to Colombia; Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Kingdom.
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