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ST. JEROME THE PRIEST STATUE

St. Jerome was a Christian priest, theologian and historian.

Located at 2343 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

BERNARDO O’HIGGINS Embassy

of Chile

Bernardo O’Higgins (1778 - 1842), considered the founding father of Chile, freed his country from the Spanish monarchy in the Chilean War of Independence.

Located at 1732 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Chargé d’affaires

Xu Xueyuen

Embassy of Chile

1732 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 785-1746 | Email: echile.eeuu@minrel.gob.cl

In late April 2022, Juan Gabriel Valdes, one of Chile’s most senior statesmen, was appointed ambassador to the United States—a job he had from 2014 to 2018.

Among other key posts, Valdes, 75, was Chile’s ambassador to Spain (1990-94) as well as the country’s chief trade negotiator (1996-99). He was also foreign minister under Chilean President Eduardo Frei Ruíz Tagle (1999-2000); Chile’s permanent representative to the United Nations (2000-03); ambassador to Argentina (2003-04), and chief of the UN’s Stabilization Mission in Haiti (2004-06).

Valdes has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from England’s University of Essex (1973), as well as a master’s (1975) and a doctorate (1996), both from Princeton. After finishing his PhD studies at Princeton, Valdes joined the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, where he was an assistant to former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier. After Letelier was assassinated in a September 1976 car bombing carried out by agents of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Valdes moved to Mexico City, remaining in exile until the 1980s, when he returned to Chile to help organize democratic opposition to the Pinochet regime. Until his current post, Valdes headed institutional and strategic affairs at the University of Chile.

Embassy of China

3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 495-2266 | Email: chinaembpress_us@mfa.gov.cn

Embassy of Colombia

1724 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 387-8338 | Email: eestadosunidos@cancilleria.gov.co

Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia replaced his predecessor, former Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, as ambassador in September 2022 following Gustavo Petro’s election as the first leftist president in Colombian history.

Murillo has also made history as Colombia’s first black ambassador to the United States. Born in the western department of Chocó, Murillo has both a bachelor’s degree in mining engineering and a master’s in engineering sciences. He was elected governor of Chocó in 1997 but was kidnapped three years later by a right-wing paramilitary group, later receiving political asylum in the United States.

While in the US, he advocated for victims of racial discrimination, and consulted for various groups such as USIAD, Lutheran World Relief and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Murillo was also the first Afro-Latino to testify before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

In 2014, Murillo was chosen to head Todos Somos PAZcífico—a massive water, sanitation and energy infrastructure project for Colombia’s impoverished Pacific coastal region—and from 2016 to 2018, he served as Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development.

Murillo and his Uzbek-born wife Barno Khadjibaeva have three sons.