Ignacio Luis Arcaya

Ignacio Luis Arcaya
President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Venezuela
In office
1962–1964
Preceded byManuel Vicente Ledezma
Succeeded byHéctor Santaella
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
In office
13 February 1959 – 28 August 1960[1]
PresidentRómulo Betancourt
Preceded byRené De Sola
Succeeded byMarcos Falcón Briceño
Personal details
Born(1912-05-03)3 May 1912
Died4 September 1990(1990-09-04) (aged 78)
Professionpolitician, lawyer

Ignacio Luis Arcaya Rivero (Santa Ana de Coro, 3 May 1912 – Caracas, 4 September 1990[2]), was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. He was one of the signatories of the Puntofijo Pact on behalf of his party, the Democratic Republican Union (URD).

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela 1959–1960 and took part in the 7th Organization of American States conference on 16 August 1960, where against his President's wishes, he abstained on the issue of Cuban relations with the Organization of American States. He was President of the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies 1962–1964,[3] and became a Supreme Court of Venezuela judge in 1965.[2][4]

He was the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs until 28 August 1960.[1]

Personal life and family

Ignacio Luis Arcaya had a son, Ignacio Arcaya (1939), who went on to become a career diplomat.[5] In 2001 the National Assembly of Venezuela created an "Order of Merit Ignacio Luis Arcaya".[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Dávila, Luis Ricardo (9 December 2008). "Rómulo Betancourt, Volumen Siete Antología Política" [Political Anthology of Rómulo Betancourt, Seventh Volume] (PDF) (in Spanish). University of the Andes. p. 1. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c (in Spanish) Ignacio Luis Arcaya Rivero, accessed 24 May 2012
  3. ^ Venezuela (1983). "25 Años de legislación democrática".
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Jose Virtuoso, SIC, September–October 1990, Ignacio Luis Arcaya Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, p368
  5. ^ Embassy of Venezuela to the United States, Ambassador IGNACIO ARCAYA
Political offices
Preceded by 163rd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
13 February 1959 – 28 August 1960 		Succeeded by


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