Germán Santa María Barragán (born 24 January 1950) is the current Ambassador

Ambassador

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 of Colombia

Colombia

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 to Portugal

Portugal

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. A renowned journalist, five time winner of the Simón Bolívar Award for Journalism, and twice president of the Bogotá Circle of Journalists, he has been a writer for El Tiempo for eleven years and editor-in-chief of Diners magazine since 1999. As a writer, his novel No Morirás has won the Julio Cortázar Iberoamerican Award for Novel, and was turned into a made-for-television film by director Jorge Alí Triana.