| Ricardo Sala Gaitán | |
|---|---|
| Colombia Ambassador to Germany | |
| In office 27 April 1992 – 27 January 1996 | |
| President | César Gaviria Trujillo |
| Preceded by | Luis Guillermo Giraldo Hurtado |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Bendeck Olivella |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santa María (divorced) |
| Children | María Paula Sala Cárdenas Ana Daniela Sala Cárdenas Juan Felipe Sala Cárdenas |
| Alma mater | University of the Andes (BSc, ) |
| Profession | Industrial Engineer |
Ricardo Sala Gaitán is a Colombian industrial engineer and politician.
Ambassadorship
On 17 March 1992, President César Gaviria Trujillo designated Sala as Ambassador of Colombia to Germany. Sala presented his Letters of Credence to Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany, on 27 April 1992 at the Hammerschmidt Villa. 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.
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.
References
- "Bulletin". Bulletin des Presse- und Informationsamtes der Bundesregierung (in German). Bonn: Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung: 416. 1992. ISSN 0342-5754. OCLC 191255119.
Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsäcker empfing am 27. April 1992... den Botschafter der Republik Kolumbien, Ricardo Sala Gaitán...
- "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.
- 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 2009-05-30.