Ricardo Sala Gaitán

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Ricardo Sala Gaitán
In office
27 April 1992 – 27 January 1996
PresidentCésar Gaviria Trujillo
Preceded byLuis Guillermo Giraldo Hurtado
Succeeded byJorge Bendeck Olivella
Personal details
NationalityColombian
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santa María (divorced)
ChildrenMaría Paula Sala Cárdenas
Ana Daniela Sala Cárdenas
Juan Felipe Sala Cárdenas
Alma materUniversity of the Andes (BSc, )
ProfessionIndustrial Engineer
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sala and the second or maternal family name is Gait��n.

Ricardo Sala Gaitán is a Colombian industrial engineer and politician.

Ambassadorship[]

On 17 March 1992, President César Gaviria Trujillo designated Sala as . Sala presented his Letters of Credence to Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany, on 27 April 1992 at the Hammerschmidt Villa.[1] On 27 January 1996, as a result of the public events that surrounded the 8000 Process scandal, Sala resigned his Ambassadorship in protest against the then President of Colombia Ernesto Samper Pizano.[2]

Personal life[]

He married. and later divorced, Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santa María with whom he had three children: María Paula, Ana Daniela, and Juan Felipe.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Bulletin" (in German). Bonn: Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung. 1992: 416. ISSN 0342-5754. OCLC 191255119. Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsäcker empfing am 27. April 1992... den Botschafter der Republik Kolumbien, Ricardo Sala Gaitán... {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Una Semana que Sacudio al País..." [A Week that Rattled the Country...]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1996-01-29. Retrieved 2011-09-06. El sábado 27, se conoció otra renuncia: la del embajador en Alemania, el liberal Ricardo Sala, quien en su carta dimitoria dice que es necesario respaldar a la Fiscalía General.
  3. ^ Gallo Martínez, Luis Álvaro (2005-01-05). "Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: Su Vida y Su Descendencia" [Don Marcelino Restrepo y Restrepo: His Life and His Offspring] (PDF) (in Spanish). Asociación Colombiana Para el Estudio de las Genealogías. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-29.
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