Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas

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Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (8 July 1922 – 22 October 2003) was born in La Puerta, Venezuela. Politician, Diplomat, and Doctor of Law with a post-graduate degree in Political Sciences in Florence University and post-graduate degree in Law from Madrid, Spain. He was Director of the General Minister of Interior Affairs.

He served as Director of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Minister of Justice; Ambassador of Venezuela in the United States, Ambassador of Venezuela in Colombia; Ambassador of Venezuela in the United Kingdom (1967–1968); ran for the Presidency of the Republic (1968); Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States (1974–76); President of the Commission in charge of organizing the Third United Nations Conference about Maritime Laws (1964); Director of the Latin America High Studies (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas) and author of various books.

He was a member of the Laws Accessories Committee of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Foreign Minister of Venezuela (1994–1998). He was forced into exile in Spain when Marcos Pérez Jiménez came to power in mid 1950s and continued to fight against Hugo Chávez when he won the elections in 1998. A few years after retiring from politics, he died peacefully in Washington DC, USA, after suffering from lung cancer.