Jaime Aparicio

In 2019, Aparicio sued President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) after Ortega jumped a constitutional ban on presidential re-election with help from a Supreme Court filled with his supporters setting a major precedent for similar unconstitutional re-elections across the continent and more especially of his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales. Aparicio has become one of the most vocal opponents to dictatorships across Latin America, especially in Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Aparicio, Arp and Associates LLC represented Maude Versini in her case against the State of Mexico in the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington, D.C. Maude, a French-Mexican citizen, divorced Arturo Montiel, former Governor of the State of Mexico and moved back to France with their children. In December 2011, the children went to Mexico for a Christmas vacation with their father and never returned to France. For the next 3 years, the mother had no access to her children. On March 6, 2015, the IAHRC decided to grant precautionary measures (PM314-13), requesting that the State of Mexico immediately guarantees the children's access to their mother.

Aparicio created his advisory firm Aparicio, Arp & Associates LLC in 2010 which is specialized in public and private international law.

He was the Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States (2002-2006) and was later President of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the OAS. Previously, he worked at the Organization of American States as Executive Secretary of the Summits of the Americas. Before that, he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. Aparicio led several missions to the General Assembly of the United Nations, UNESCO and the Organization of American States.

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.

In 1994, JAO, as Bolivia's deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, organized the Summit of the Americas, a true milestone for democracies in the continent. For the very firs time all states in the Americas from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, with the exception of Cuba, were democracies. President Bill Clinton invited all democratic leaders of the Americas in a hemispheric initiative aimed at rebuilding the inter-American system in a new scenario defined by the end of the Cold War. 34 democratic heads of state and government discussed ways to commit themselves to the collective defense of democracy and free-market economies. The shared strategy in these negotiations was to build a new hemispheric architecture based on representative democracy, free markets and social development. The new regional agenda, unanimously approved by the presidents and prime ministers of the Americas, marked an exceptional moment for U.S. foreign policy. The U.S.

From August 1993 to April 1997, he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. Ambassador Aparicio coordinated the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, and the Latin-America and European Union Summit, held in Bolivia in 1996. He led several missions to the General Assembly of the United Nations, UNESCO and the Organization of American States.

Jaime Aparicio Otero (born August 30, 1955 in La Paz, Bolivia ) 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 Sciences Po de Paris.