Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros

He was the candidate of Fuerza Social for the Presidency of Peru in the Peruvian general election of 2011. He quit the presidential race on March 18, 2011.

Since the beginning of 2009, he is president of the "Latin American Institute of International Law and International Relations - ILADIR".

In 2005 he assumed the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament based in Geneva, and in 2006 he was President of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

José Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros is a Peruvian diplomat. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru from 2003 to 2005, during Alejandro Toledo's presidency, and later was appointed ambassador to Bolivia in 2010.

Cuadros was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru from 2003 and 2005, and was named ambassador of Peru in Bolivia in 2010. He has also served as a diplomat in United States, Switzerland, France, Uruguay, Ecuador and UNESCO.

In 2001, he served as Permanent Representative of Peru to the Organization of American States.

In Geneva, in April 2000, he was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, for a period of four years, a member of the Sub-Commission of the aforementioned organism for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.

In 1993 he was appointed "Senior Political Officer" in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs.

Between 1992 and 1993, he served as senior advisor to the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in El Salvador.

At the end of December 1992, he was dismissed from the Peruvian diplomatic service by the government of Alberto Fujimori.

In 1974, when the Peruvian press was expropriated by the dictatorial government of Juan Velasco Alvarado, he was an editorial writer for the newspaper Correo de Lima and a political commentator for channel 5 of Peruvian television.