Curriculum Vitae



Academic Titles

 

  • Lawyer of the Republic. Central University of Venezuela (1969).
  • Graduate in Criminal Appeal. Holy Mary University, Venezuela.
  • Doctor in Criminal Sciences. Holy Mary University, Venezuela.

 

Affiliations

 

  • Member of the Federal District Lawyers Bar, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the Lawyer’s Social Security Institute, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Active Member of the Venezuelan Red Cross, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the Venezuelan Society of Criminal Law and Criminology, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Corresponding member of the Institute for Criminological Research and Compared Criminal Law of the University of Argentine Social Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Member of the International Society of Social Defense, Paris, France.
  • Full Member of the Inter American Association of Criminological Studies, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Full Member of the Mirandino Institute of Historical Studies, State of Miranda, Venezuela.
  • Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy.
  • Member of the Venezuelan Writers’ Association, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the Writers’ Social Security Institute, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the “American Home” Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the “Lola Rodríguez de Fuenmayor” University Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the National Geographic Society.
  • Honorary Member of the Institute of Hispanic Culture, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Member of the Main Center of the Bolivarian Society of Venezuela.
  • Honorary Member of the Association of Graduates of the “Luis Razetti” Medical School, Caracas.

 

Distinciones Nacionales

 

  • The Order of “El Libertador”, Grand Officer Grade.
  • The Order of “Francisco de Miranda”, in its First Class.
  • The Labor Order of Merit, in its First Class.
  • The “Andrés Bello” Order, in its First Class.
  • The “Diego de Losada” Order, in its First Class.
  • The “Francisco Fajardo” Order, Federal District, in its First Class.
  • The Order of the City of Caracas.
  • The Medal awarded by the Federal District Lawyers’ Bar.
  • The Bicentennial Order, Federal District Lawyers’ Bar, Caracas.
  • The “Dr. Mario Briceño Penozo” Centennial Order of Merit, Falcon State Lawyers’ Bar, in its Sole Class.
  • The “Arminio Borjas” Order, Federation of Lawyer Schools of Venezuela, in its First Class.
  • The Order of Merit of the Holy Mary University, in its First Class.
  • The Honorary Order of Merit of the Technical Judicial Police, in its First Class.
  • The Cross of the Metropolitan Police, in its First Class.
  • The Order of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services, in its First Class.
  • The Land Transportation Cross, in its First Class.
  • The Civil Defense Medal, in its First Class.
  • The “Diego de Osorio” Order, in its First Class.
  • The “Dr. Enrique Tejera” Health Medal, in its First Class.
  • The Medal of the 40th Anniversary of the Holy Mary University, Caracas.
  • The Institutional Medal granted by the “Lisandro Alvarado” Central-Western University, State of Lara.
  • The “Cecilio Acosta” Order, State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The “Leonidas Monasterios” Decoration, Legislative Assembly of the State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The Municipal Medal of Honor for Merit, District of Sucre, State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The “Ambrosio Plaza” Order, District of Plaza, State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The Honorary Order of Merit of the Sucre District Fire Department, State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The “Juan Jacinto Lara” Order, Barquisimeto, State of Lara, in its First Class.
  • The “General Juan Guillermo Iribarren” Order, City Hall of the Municipality of Iribarren, State of Lara.
  • The “Bartolome Salom” Decoration, Puerto Cabello, State of Carabobo, in its First Class.
  • The City Badge, Municipal Council of the Municipality of Puerto Cabello, State of Carabobo.
  • The “Samán de Aragua” Order, State of Aragua, in its First Class.
  • The “General José Antonio Páez” Decoration, Legislative Assembly of the State of Portuguesa, in its First Class.
  • The “Juan Fernández de León” Order, State of Portuguesa, in its First Class.
  • The “Monsignor José Vicente de Unda” Special Decoration, State of Portuguesa.
  • The “September 16th” Order, Government of the State of Mérida, in its First Class.
  • The “City of Mérida” Order, Municipality of Libertador, State of Mérida.
  • The Honor Badge of the Garrison of the State of Lara.
  • The Order of Merit of the State of Táchira.
  • The “Angostura del Orinoco” Order, State of Bolivar.
  • The “Lago de Maracaibo” Order, State of Zulia, in its First Class.
  • The “Don Simón Rodríguez” Order, El Tigre, State of Anzoátegui.
  • The General Order of the “Francisco Esteban Gómez” Division, State of Nueva Esparta, in its First Class.
  • The “Doctor Tulio Febres Cordero” Order, Legislative Assembly of the State of Mérida, in its First Class.
  • The Order of the Venezuelan Red Cross.
  • The “Augusto Pinaud” Honarary Order of Merit, Venezuelan Red Cross.
  • The “Distinguished Services” Medal, Venezuelan Red Cross.
  • The “Doctor Agustín Zubillaga” Honorary Order of Merit, Executive Committee of the Venezuelan Red Cross, Sectional Lara.
  • The “El Precursor” Order, Mirandino Institute of Historical Studies, State of Miranda.
  • The “Honor of Merit” Insignia, National Guard Regional Command No. 5, Caracas.
  • The Cross of the Venezuelan Equestrian Sport, in its Second Class.
  • The “David Concepción” Order, David Concepción School of Smaller Baseball, State of Carabobo, in its First Class.
  • The “Lima Blanca de Oro” Medal, State of Cojedes.
  • The “General Manuel Manrique” Order, State of Cojedes.
  • The “City of Valencia” Order, in its First Class, Municipal Council of Valencia, State of Carabobo.
  • The “Citizen of San Fernando” Order.
  • The “General of the José Antonio Anzoátegui Division” Order, State of Anzoátegui, in its First Class.
  • The “Guaicaipuro” Order, Municipal Council of Gauicaipuro, State of Miranda, in its First Class.
  • The Rector´s Medal, Bicentennial University of Aragua.
  • The Gold Honor of Merit Medal, Venezuelan Red Cross, of the Mérida Sectional.
  • The “Admirante José María García” Order, Municipality of García, State of Nueva Esparta, in its Sole Class.
  • The “Don Rómulo Gallegos” Order, State of Apure.
  • The Gold Honor of Merit Badge, granted by the Community of Displaced Persons of the State of Vargas, Jacinto Lara-Quibor and Rancho Maladero-El Cují Urbanizations, State of Lara.
  • The “Generalísimo Sebastián Francisco of Miranda” Order, State of Miranda.
  • The “José Tadeo Monagas” Order, State of Monagas, in its First Class.
  • The “Admiral Luis Brión” Navy Medal, Sole Class, Caracas.
  • The Honorary Diploma of Merit “Dr. Adolfo D’Empaire”, Maracaibo, State of Zulia.
  • The “Mariscal Juan Crisóstomo Falcón” Order, in its First Class, Executive of the State of Falcón, Santa Ana de Coro.
  • The “Licenciado Juan Antonio Rodríguez Domínguez” Decoration, State of Barinas.
  • The Loyal and Heroic Order of the City of Ocumare del Tuy, Tomas Lander City Hall, State of Miranda.
  • The Great Order of the Miranda State Lawyers´ Bar, State of Miranda.
  • The Medal of the Institute of Law for Higher Education in its First Class, Caracas.
  • The “Great Cordón José María Vargas” Order, La Guaira.
  • The “Deyanira Núñez” Order, Executive Committee of the Miranda Sectional of the Venezuelan Red Cross.
  • The Medal of Merit of the Latin American and Caribbean University, Caracas.

 

 

International Distinctions

 

  • The Great Cross of the «Isabel la Católica” Order, Spain.
    • The Great Cross of the “El Sol del Peru” Order, Republic of Peru.
    • The Order of the Republic of Tunisia, in its First Level.
    • The “Jinete de Mádara” Order, Republic of Bulgaria, in its First Degree.
    • Decoration awarded by the Supreme Soviet and Council of Ministers of Armenia.
    • The “City of Paris” Medal.
    • The Great Decoration of the Friendship Order of the Republic of Viet Nam.
    • The “Vasco Núñez de Balboa” Order, Republic of Panama, in the degree of Grand Officer.
    • The “Order of Public Health” Medal of Poland.
    • The “Order of Public Health” Medal of the Republic of Ivory Coast.
    • The “General José Dolores Estrada” Order, Republic of Nicaragua, Degree of Grand Officer.
    • The “José Cecilio del Valle” Order, Republic of Honduras, in the degree of Knight.
    • The “Kyung Hee University” Medal of Honor, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
    • The President’s Award, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
    • The Gold Medal of the Spanish Red Cross, Spain.
    • The “N.I. Pirogov” Chest Medal, Soviet Red Cross, former Soviet Union.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Japanese Red Cross, Japan.
    • The Order of Merit of the Colombian Red Cross, category of Grand Officer, Colombia.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Bulgarian Red Cross, Bulgaria.
    • The Medal of Honor granted by the Peruvian Red Cross, Peru.
    • Great Cross of the Peruvian Red Cross, Peru.
    • Medal of Honor of the Polish Red Cross, Poland.
    • Medal of Honor of the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross, Trinidad and Tobago.
    • The “Heroes and Martyrs” Order of the Nicaraguan Red Cross, Nicaragua.
    • The Medal of Merit of the Honduran Red Cross, Honduras.
    • The Medal of Merit of the Icelandic Red Cross, Iceland.
    • The “Henry Dunant” Medal of Honor, Hungarian Red Cross, Hungary.
    • The Medal of Merit of the Yugoslavia Red Cross, Yugoslavia.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Togolese Red Cross, Togo.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Malaysian Red Crescent, Malaysia.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Republic of Korea Red Cross, Republic of Korea.
    • The Highest Decoration of the New Zealand Red Cross, New Zealand.
    • The Highest Decoration of the German Red Cross, Federal Republic of Germany.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Canadian Red Cross, Canada.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Viet Nam Red Cross, Viet Nam.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Netherlands Red Cross, Netherlands.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Paraguayan Red Cross, Paraguay.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Mongolian Red Cross, Mongolia.
    • The “Members for Life” Award of the Nigerian Red Cross, Nigeria.
    • The “Members for Life” Award of the Malawi Red Cross, Malawi.
    • The Highest Decoration of the French Red Cross, France.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Danish Red Cross, Denmark.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Jordanian Red Crescent, Hachemite Kingdom of Jordan.
    • The Humanitarian Medal of the British Red Cross, Great Britain.
    • The “Doña Matilde Obarrio de Mallet” of the Panamanian Red Cross, Panama.
    • The Gold Medal of the Belgian Red Cross, Belgium.
    • Honorary member of the Romanian Red Cross.
    • The Grand Cross of Honor of the Chilean Red Cross.
    • The Gold Medal of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Republic of San Marino Red Cross.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Dominican Red Cross.
    • The Cross of Merit of the Finnish Red Cross.
    • The Medal of Honor of the Australian Red Cross.
    • The Highest Decoration of the Portuguese Red Cross, Lisbon.
    • The Diploma of Honor of the Congolese Red Cross, Brazzavile.
    • Slovenian Red Cross, on the occasion of its 130 Anniversary, Jubijana.
    • Order of the Lenin Alliance of the USSR Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
    • Honor of Merit Order of the Guatemalan Red Cross, Guatemala.
    • Order “For The Sake Of Viet Nam Red Cross” Award, Red Cross Society, Vietnam, Ha Noi.

 

 

 

Other Distinctions

 

 

  • The “Good Citizen” Award, Municipal Council of the Federal District, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • The “1979 Orbits” Trophy, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • The “Musa de Oro” Award as 1985 Jurist of the Year, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Guest of Honor of the city of El Tigre, Municipal Council of the District of Simón Rodríguez, on February 10, 1988, El Tigre, State of Anzoátegui, Venezuela.
  • Distinguished Visitor of the city of Tegucigalpa, Municipality of Tegucigalpa, on July 13, 1989, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Illustrious Guest of the city of Lima, Municipality of Lima, on June 26, 1990, Lima, Peru (Key of the City).
  • Distinguished Visitor of the city of Barquisimeto, Council of the Municipality of Iribarren of the State of Lara, on November 22, 1990, State of Lara, Venezuela.
  • Guest of Honor of the city of Barinas, Municipal Council of Barinas, on July 4, 1991, State of Barinas, Venezuela.
  • Title of Doctor Honoris Causa, bestowed by the Holy Mary University, on October 16, 1991, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Distinguished Visitor of the city of Barquisimeto, Council of the Municipality of Iribarren of the State of Lara, on January 30, 1992, State of Lara, Venezuela.
  • Illustrious Visitor of the city of Santiago, Chile, on March 31, 1993, Santiago, Chile.
  • Guest of Honor of the city of Guanare, State of Portuguesa, on October 4, 1993.
  • Distinguished Visitor of the city of Maracay, State of Aragua, Venezuela. (Key of the City).
  • Honorary Professor of the course of International Humanitarian Law, Holy Mary University, May 21, 1994.
  • Honorable Person of the City of San Cristobal, State of Táchira, Venezuela, on 28 July 1995.
  • Illustrious Visitor of Guatemala City, February 12, 1996.
  • Honorary Member of the Ruben Dario Institute, Managua, Nicaragua, March 13, 1996.
  • Honorary Member of the Nicaraguan-Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, Managua, Nicaragua, March 13, 1996.
  • Distinguished Guest of the City of Managua “Key of the City”, City Hall of Managua, April 13, 1996.
  • Illustrious Visitor of Aragua de Barcelona, Municipal Council of the Municipality of Aragua, State of Anzoátegui, Venezuela, June 5, 1996.
  • Key of the City, Belize, 1996.
  • Guest of Honor of the city of Mérida, Municipality of Libertador, State of Mérida, July 25, 1997.
  • Distinguished Visitor, State of Falcón, City Hall of Miranda, July 15, 1999.
  • Distinguished Visitor, City Hall of the Municipality of Jiménez, Quibor, State of Lara, July 6, 2001.
  • Sponsor of the Bar Promotion “Dr. Mario Villarroel Lander”, 1985-1986, Holy Mary University, Caracas.
  • Villa Zoila Museum Honorary Insignia of Merit, granted by the Military Historical Museum of the National Guard of Caracas.
  • Key of the City of Miami, United States of America.
  • Bicentennial Distinction of the University of Los Andes, Mérida.
  • “Sole Class” Insignia of the School of Military Justice.
  • Doctorate Honoris Causa Human Rights Mention, Center for High Education of Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Distinguished Visitor of the city of Miami, United States of America (2008).
  • Title of Doctor Honoris Causa, bestowed by the Latin American and

      Caribbean Universtiy, 2010

  • Director of the International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Chair of

        the Gregorio Peces-Barba Foundation, named after Dr. Mario

  1.         Villarroel.    Madrid, Spain. (2011)
  • Patron of the Constitutional International Law Graduates, 2012 Class,

       graduated from the National University of Distance Learning (UNED).

       Madrid, Spain.

  •   Numerous diplomas, plaques of recognition, and designations as an Honors

            Sponsor of graduate classes or special course in Venezuela and abroad.

 

Positions Served

 

  • President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland (1987, 1997).
  • Member of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • President of the Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

 

Present Activities 

 

  • President of the Venezuelan Red Cross Society, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • President of the Mirandino Institute of Historical Studies, State of Miranda, Venezuela.
  • Professor of Criminal Law of the Holy Mary University, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Professional practice of law.