page_title: Jaime Aparicio Otero
section_title: Private activities
hierarchical_section_title: Jaime Aparicio Otero / Private activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Aparicio with Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States of America
context_page_description: Jaime Aparicio Otero is the Bolivian Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and Bolivian Agent to the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, in the process against Chile related to the Silala waters. Ambassador Aparicio is a career diplomat, lawyer, journalist and a Washington-based legal and political advisor. He was also a political analyst working in international public and corporate affairs in Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. He has a Law Degree from the Higher University of San Andrés of La Paz, the Bolivian Diplomatic Academy and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques commonly referred as Science Po de Paris.
  Aparicio has been working in issues related to international law, democracy, human rights, and rule of law in Latin America for more than 30 years. Aparicio's firm, Aparicio, Arp & Associates LLC, has submitted petitions to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission representing, among others, the Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez. and the "Ladies in White" Group.
  More recently, he represented the French Maude Versini.
context_section_description: Previously, Aparicio Otero has been an envoy on special missions for the Carter Center in issues related to monitoring elections and political conflict resolution, in Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. He was also a political consultant in Washington, D.C., for Newlink Political, a Miami-based government relations firm.
  He was President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the OAS, of which he was unanimously elected  as a board member, for four years, by the 34 countries of the Organization of American States (OAS). The Committee, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, is an advisory body in juridical matters of an international nature and also advises on juridical problems related to the countries of the Americas. The Committee had a leading role in drafting the Inter-American Anti-Corruption Treaty, the resolution on Essential Elements of Representative Democracy and the Ten Principles of Access to Public Information
  From May 1997 to December 2002, he worked at the Organization of American States first as Senior Advisor to the Secretary General and former President of Colombia César Gaviria and later as Executive Secretary of the Summits of the Americas. In that capacity, he coordinated the Summit of the 34 Heads of State of the Americas in Quebec City in 2002. At the OAS, Ambassador Aparicio had first hand experience dealing with political crisis, electoral conflicts, political mediation and threats to democracy throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In that capacity, he established an institutionalized mechanism for civil society to participate in the Summits of the Americas process. He coordinated the efforts of the Organization to initiate a dialogue with private companies of the Americas to promote Corporate Social Responsibility as a key factor to contribute to sustainable development.
caption: Ambassador Aparicio with Jimmy Carter
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