Carlos Sanz de Santamaría (23 April 1905 – 5 November 1992)[1] was the 18th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and twice served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States; he also served as the Chairman of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress, the precursor of the Organization of American States.[2] A Colombian civil engineer by training, he gained national acclaim for his work in the constructions of the aqueducts of Santa Marta, Riohacha, and Buenaventura, and the Vitelma Water Treatment Plant in Bogotá, and was hoisted to the national stage for his endeavours first as Mayor of Bogotá and then went on to occupy different executive ministries including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War, and serving as the 9th Minister of National Economy and the 26th and 41st Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia.[3][4]
Background
He graduated from the National University of Colombia in 1928 with a bachelor in civil engineering, and moved to France to study at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he received his master's in hydraulic engineering in 1929. He was an associate member of the Societé des Ingenieurs Civiles de France (Engineer Society of France) since 1930, and a member of the Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros (Colombian Engineer Society) since 1932, of which it served twice as President.[5][6]
Selected works
- Sanz de Santamaría, Carlos (1978). Fin del asilo del Doctor Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 1954 [The End of the Asylum of Doctor Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 1954] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Fundación Centenario del Banco de Colombia. OCLC 5814196. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- Sanz de Santamaría, Carlos (1965). Una época difícil [a Difficult Time]. Colección Aventura del desarrollo (in Spanish). Bogotá: Ediciones Tercer Mundo. OCLC 1343227.
References
- ^ "Falleció el Ex Ministro Carlos Sanz de Santamaría" [Former Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaría Dies]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1992-11-06. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "The Alianza: Top Man in the Clearinghouse". Time. 1967-02-04. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ "Falleció el Ex Ministro Carlos Sanz de Santamaría" [Former Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaría Dies]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1992-11-06. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ González Díaz, Andrés (1982). "Alberto Lleras Camargo". Ministros del siglo XX, Vol. 2 [Minister of the 20th Century, Vol, 2] (in Spanish). Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ "Solicitud de Promocion a Socio de Numero". Anales de ingeniería (in Spanish). 43. Bogotá: Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros: 160. ISSN 0120-0429. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ "Presidentes de la Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros" [Presidents of the Colombian Society of Engineers] (in Spanish). Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros. 2011-01-07.[permanent dead link]
Further reading
- López Michelsen, Alfonso (1993). "El Gran Ciudadano Carlos Sanz de Santamaría" [The Great Citizen Carlos Sanz de Santamaría]. Boletín de Historia y Antiguedades (in Spanish) (781). Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Historia. ISSN 0006-6303.
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