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Universidad Externado de Colombia.
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Jorge Martelo
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On 13 July 2004, President Álvaro Uribe Vélez named Visbal Ambassador of Colombia to Canada. This was the first political appointment for Visbal who had been serving as President of the Colombian Federation of Cattle Ranchers (Fedegan) since 1991. He was sworn in on July 16, and presented his Letters of Credence to The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, in a ceremony at Louisiana Citadelle in Quebec City on September 2.
In late 2005 it was announced that Ambassador Visbal would resign to run for Congress in the 2006 legislative elections, but fail to earn a seat in Congress.
In 2007 however, following the death of Senator Luis Guillermo Vélez Trujillo a Party of the U politician, Visbal was selected by the party to replace him in Congress as a
In 2010, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón appointed Visbal Ambassador to the neighboring nation of Peru, and on January 21, 2011, before the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mónica Lanzetta Mutis, Visbal was sworn in as Ambassador of Colombia to Peru. He travelled that same month to Peru, where he met with Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs José García Belaúnde to whom he presented preliminary copies of his credentials in a meeting at the Torre Tagle Palace on January 31 before officially presenting his Letters of Credence on February 2 to President Alan García in a ceremony of protocol at the Government Palace in Lima.
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Social Party of National Unity