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U.S. Embassy - Bogotá The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States , or other chiefs of mission , to Colombia and its predecessor states. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Bogotá Republic of China (Taiwan) Embassy 1980 [10] Israel: Embassy 2024 [11] Barranquilla China: Consulate 2017 [12] Republic of China (Taiwan) Consulate-General 1980 [13] [10] United Kingdom: Consulate 1998 [14] [15] Cali Ecuador: Consulate 2013 [16] [17] United Kingdom: Consulate 2014 [18] Cartagena de Indias Spain: Consulate General 2020 [19]
Currently, all consular services are suspended and consular inquiries are to be referred to the Embassy of the United States in Bogota, Colombia. On April 18, 2022, the embassy in Bogota started allowing U.S. citizens located in Venezuela to renew their passports by mail, thus restoring access to some consular services. [citation needed]
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
Santos, like his cousin, ex-President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, attended high school at Colegio San Carlos a private all-male elite school in Bogotá. Both are also graduates of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Santos also graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
Bogotá gave the Spanish-speaking world José Asunción Silva (1865–1896), Modernism pioneer. His poetic work in the novel De sobremesa has a place in outstanding American literature. Rafael Pombo (1833–1912) was an American romanticism poet who left a collection of fables essential part of children imagination and Colombian tradition.
In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru (Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976).. In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight (now the Rio Group), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.
The building was designed in a Neocolonial style, featuring a replica travertine marble gate of the Palacio de Torre Tagle on its entrance, as well as on the second floor. The three floors of the building served as either storage (basement), a reception area (first floor) or bedrooms (second floor). [ 4 ]