Mr. Diego E. Arria is a Venezuelan diplomat and politician. Founding Editor of

El Diario de Caracas, Governor of Caracas, Congressman and Minister of Information

and Tourism. He served as the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations

and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He also served as

Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations, as well as President of the U.N.

Security Council where he initiated a modality that is named after him: the Arria

Formula. Ambassador Arria has served on the board of the International Crisis

Group (he is now a Senior Adviser), in the International Peace Institute, as a

Diplomatic Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. At present he is on the board of the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, the United Nations Association of the United States, the Museum of Art and Design of New York, on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Policy and Ethics of Brandeis University, and the School of International Service of American University in DC.

Mr. Arria is co-editing EuropeanCourier.org’s Democracy in Venezuela Blog.

You may visit him at Facebook and join the opposition to Hugo Chavez.

Articles by Mr. Arria:

Celso Amorim and Brazil's burial of democratic principles in Latin America - June 19, 2009

Crime and Punishment, Crime without Punishment - May 9, 2009

From Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom - December 13, 2008

Blogs:

Democracy in Venezuela Blog

Interviews:

Chavez's Regime will collapse - November 29, 2008

Expiration Date of Hugo Chavez - February 5, 2008

Videos:

Ambassadorial Debate - May 10, 2008

Expiration Date of Hugo Chavez Debate - February 5, 2008

Special events :

The Darkest Moment in the U.N. History - July 12, 2008