Silvana Montes de Oca was chosen to replace Eber Da Rosa, as confirmed by the Foreign Ministry.
The government appointed Silvana Montes de Oca as the new ambassador of Uruguay in Venezuela, after the episodes of diplomatic tension that were generated between both countries, with strong criticism from the administration of Nicolas Maduro to the president Luis Lacalle Pou.
Montes de Oca is a career leader in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who worked until today at the Artigas Institute of Foreign Service. Now, she is the brand new successor of Eber Da Rosa, who presented his “indeclinable” resignation amid questions from the Venezuelan government to the Uruguayan administration.
Beyond his last position in Chancellery, The leader has extensive experience, having been coordinator of the international agenda in the National Directorate of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment between 2022 and 2023.
In addition, in 2021-2022 she was Minister Counselor and Consul General of the Republic at the Embassy of Uruguay in Chili and he held that same position in the city of Toronto Canada, between 2013 and 2018.
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences and Public Notary, in both cases graduated from Udelar, she was also part of the Uruguayan embassy in Washington between 2006 and 2011, according to his extensive CV.
The diplomatic relationship is maintained, despite the tensions
After Da Rosa’s resignation, the government anticipated that it would maintain a presence in that country because “the relationship is with the people, not with the government,” according to Da Rosa’s own admission. Lacalle Pou.
From the Executive Branch they questioned the political situation in the Caribbean country and criticized the electoral disqualification of the opponent María Corina Machado, as well as the arbitrary detention of the activist Rocío San Miguel, which generated responses.
First she was the vice president Delcy Rodríguez, who accused him of being a “lackey” USA to Lacalle Pou, while Ripe pointed out: “On the one hand, he acts crazy with the massacres of Netanyahu in Palestine and on the other hand he intends to pontificate and pay and give back in the internal politics of Venezuela. “How fresh!”
Source: Ambito
