Mario Barros van Buren | |
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Died | 2004 Chile | (aged 75–76)
Political party | Legión Nacional Funcionalista (1950–1952) Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalista |
Mario Barros van Buren (1928–2004) [1] was a Chilean historian, lawyer and diplomat.
He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in Santiago , to begin his law studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, from which he graduated in 1952 with a memoir on the theory of just war. That same year he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which sent him the following year to continue his studies at the University of Virginia.[ citation needed]
In 1979 he received the "Hispanic Culture" award from the Spanish State.[ citation needed]
In 1984, during the Ronald Reagan administration, he was rejected as Chilean ambassador to the United States for having been editor of a magazine considered anti-Semitic from 1948 to 1952. [2] [3] The claim was disputed by the subsecretary of the ministry, Humberto Julio, claiming that it was "absolutely false" that the U.S. government had made such a rejection while abstaining at the same time from answering whether such a nomination had actually taken place. The next day, Foreign Minister Jaime del Valle Alliende recognised that such a rejection did in fact take place, saying that what Julio had said was true, in the sense that Barros had not been "rejected either tacitly or explicitly." [4]
Barros is known for his numerous works on the history of Chile. Among them:
Mario Barros van Buren | |
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Born | |
Died | 2004 Chile | (aged 75–76)
Political party | Legión Nacional Funcionalista (1950–1952) Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalista |
Mario Barros van Buren (1928–2004) [1] was a Chilean historian, lawyer and diplomat.
He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in Santiago , to begin his law studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, from which he graduated in 1952 with a memoir on the theory of just war. That same year he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which sent him the following year to continue his studies at the University of Virginia.[ citation needed]
In 1979 he received the "Hispanic Culture" award from the Spanish State.[ citation needed]
In 1984, during the Ronald Reagan administration, he was rejected as Chilean ambassador to the United States for having been editor of a magazine considered anti-Semitic from 1948 to 1952. [2] [3] The claim was disputed by the subsecretary of the ministry, Humberto Julio, claiming that it was "absolutely false" that the U.S. government had made such a rejection while abstaining at the same time from answering whether such a nomination had actually taken place. The next day, Foreign Minister Jaime del Valle Alliende recognised that such a rejection did in fact take place, saying that what Julio had said was true, in the sense that Barros had not been "rejected either tacitly or explicitly." [4]
Barros is known for his numerous works on the history of Chile. Among them: