Elisa Trotta Gamus

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]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Trotta and the second or maternal family name is Gamus.
Trotta and Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina

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. "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.
  2. "Argentina revokes credentials of representative for Venezuela's Guaido". Reuters. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  3. "Elisa Trotta Gamus". Schusterman Family Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2019. and "Elisa Trotta Gamus – Young Leadership Board:Buenos Aries". AlmaLinks. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. "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.
  5. "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.
  6. Trotta Gamus, Elisa (13 November 2015). "Respuestas para un desastre humano". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2019.

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