List of ministers of foreign affairs of Venezuela

The following is a list of ministers of foreign affairs of Venezuela since 1830,^[1] when Venezuela achieved independence after the dissolution of Gran Colombia. The founding minister was Diego Bautista Urbaneja, who held multiple terms. The current minister is Yván Gil, who assumed office on 6 January 2023.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela
Flag of Venezuela
Incumbent Yván Gil since 6 January 2023
Style	Excelentísimo Señor
Member of	Cabinet of Venezuela
Residence	Yellow House (Venezuela)
Seat	Plaza Bolívar, Caracas
Appointer	President of Venezuela
Formation	1830
First holder	Diego Bautista Urbaneja
Salary	2.916 Bolívares Soberanos
Website	http://www.mre.gob.ve/

List

No.	Name	President	Term of office
3	Diego Bautista Urbaneja	José Antonio Páez	13 Jan 1830	28 May 1830
4	Santos Michelena		28 May 1830	8 Jun 1833
5	José Luis Ramos (interim)	Andrés Narvarte	8 Jun 1833	15 Oct 1833
6	Pedro Pablo Díaz		15 Oct 1833	20 Jan 1835
7	José Luis Ramos (2nd term)	José María Vargas	20 Jan 1835	29 Mar 1835
8	Santos Michelena (2nd term)		29 Mar 1835	26 Nov 1835
9	José Eusebio Gallegos		26 Nov 1835	15 Jan 1837
10	José Luis Ramos (3rd term)		15 Jan 1837	20 Jan 1837
11	Manuel Echeandía	José María Carreño	20 Jan 1837	13 Mar 1837
12	José Luis Ramos (4th term)	Carlos Soublette	13 Mar 1837	12 Apr 1837
13	Santos Michelena (3rd term)		12 Apr 1837	30 May 1837
14	Guillermo Smith	Carlos Soublette José Antonio Páez	30 May 1837	22 May 1841
15	Francisco Aranda	José Antonio Páez Carlos Soublette	22 May, 1841	26 Mar, 1844
16	Juan Manuel Manrique	Carlos Soublette	26 Mar 1844	20 Jan 1847
17	Pedro de las Casas	Diego Bautista Urbaneja	20 Jan 1847	4 Mar 1847
18	Miguel Herrera	José Tadeo Monagas	4 Mar 1847	3 May 1847
19	Pedro de las Casas (interim)		3 May 1847	24 May 1847
20	José Félix Blanco		24 May 1847	20 Nov 1847
21	Rafael Acevedo		20 Nov 1847	31 Oct 1848
22	Antonio Leocadio Guzmán		31 Oct 1848	5 Feb 1849
23	Ramón Yepes		5 Feb 1849	8 Mar 1849
24	José Rafael Revenga		8 Mar 1849	23 Apr 1849
25	Diego Antonio Caballero		23 Apr 1849	4 May 1849
26	Jacinto Gutiérrez Martínez		4 May 1849	6 Sep 1849
27	Vicente Lecuna		6 Sep 1849	26 Sep 1849
28	Rafael Agostine		26 Sep 1849	6 Dec 1849
29	Manuel Machín Quintero		6 Dec 1849	20 Feb 1850
30	Fernando Olavarría		20 Feb 1850	5 Jun 1850
31	Vicente Lecuna (2nd term)		5 Jun 1850	18 Jan 1851
32	Esteban Herrera		18 Jan 1851	14 Feb 1851
33	José María Heres	José Gregorio Monagas	14 Feb 1851	22 Mar 1851
34	Carlos Gellineau		22 Mar 1851	5 May 1851
35	Francisco Aranda (2nd term)		5 May 1851	17 Sep 1851
36	Joaquín Herrera		17 Sep 1851	27 Jan 1853
37	Ramón Yepes (2nd term)		27 Jan 1853	29 Mar 1853
38	Simón Planas		29 Mar 1853	20 Jan 1855
39	Julián Viso	Joaquín Herrera	20 Jan 1855	26 Jan 1855
40	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl		26 Jan 1855	7 Feb 1855
41	Francisco Aranda (3rd term)	José Tadeo Monagas	7 Feb 1855	9 Dec 1855
42	Jacinto Gutiérrez Martínez (2nd term)		9 Dec 1855	15 Mar 1858
43	Ramón Yepes (3rd term)	Junta Provisional de Gobierno	15 Mar 1858	19 Mar, 1858
44	Wenceslao Urrutia	Julián Castro	19 Mar, 1858	14 Apr, 1858
45	Fermín Toro		14 Apr 1858	17 Jun 1859
46	Miguel Herrera		17 Jun 1859	29 Jul 1858
47	Mauricio Berrisbeitia		30 Jul 1858	21 Aug 1858
48	Luis Sanojo		21 Aug 1858	24 Feb 1859
49	Carlos Soublette		24 Feb 1858	4 Apr 1859
50	Pedro de las Casas (2nd term)		4 Apr 1859	11 Jun 1859
51	Juan José Mendoza		11 Jun 1859	20 Jun 1859
52	Estanislao Rondón		20 Jun 1859	16 Aug 1859
53	Manuel Machín Quintero (2nd term)		16 Aug 1859	29 Dec 1859
54	Jesús María Morales Marcano		29 Dec 1859	18 Apr 1860
55	Juan José Mendoza (2nd term)		18 Apr 1860	20 Jul 1860
56	Pedro de las Casas (3rd term)		20 Jul, 1860	6 Apr, 1861
57	Hilarión Nadal	José Antonio Páez	6 Apr 1861	14 May 1861
58	Carlos Tirado		14 May 1861	9 Jul 1861
59	Jesús María Morales Marcano (2nd term)		9 Jul 1861	9 Aug 1861
60	Rafael Seijas		9 Aug 1861	1 Jan 1862
61	Pedro José Rojas		1 Jan 1862	11 Jan 1862
62	Manuel Porras		11 Jun 1862	4 Jul 1862
63	Jesús María Morales Marcano (3rd term)		4 Jul 1862	15 Jun 1863
64	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	Juan Crisóstomo Falcón	25 Jul 1863	7 Aug 1863
65	Guillermo Tell Villegas		7 Aug 1863	21 Jan 1864
66	Antonio Guzmán Blanco (2nd term)		21 Jan 1864	6 Feb 1864
67	Antonio María Salom		6 Feb 1864	7 Mar 1864
68	José Gabriel Ochoa		7 Mar 1864	6 Nov 1864
69	Juan de Dios Morales		6 Nov 1864	9 Dec 1864
70	Rafael Seijas (2nd term)		9 Dec 1865	24 Jul 1867
71	Antonio Guzmán Blanco (3rd term)		24 Jul 1867	3 Oct 1865
72	Rafael Seijas (3rd term)		3 Oct 1865	5 Mar 1867
73	Jesús María Sistiaga		5 Mar 1867	4 Sep 1867
74	Jacinto Gutiérrez Martínez (3rd term)		4 Sep 1867	12 Feb 1868
75	José Gabriel Ochoa		12 Feb 1868	8 Apr 1868
76	José Gregorio Villafañe		8 Apr, 1868	28 Apr, 1868
77	Rafael Arvelo	José Ruperto Monagas	28 Apr, 1868	27 Jun, 1868
78	Guillermo Tell Villegas (2nd term)		27 June 1868	24 Feb 1869
79	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl (2nd term)		24 Feb 1869	31 July 1869
80	Idelfonso Riera Aguinagalde		31 Jul 1869	6 Dec 1869
81	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl (3rd term)		6 Dec 1869	27 Jan 1870
82	Felipe Jiménez		27 Jan 1870	11 Apr 1870
83	Hilarión Antich Herrera		11 Apr, 1870	28 Apr, 1870
84	Diego Bautista Barrios	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	28 Apr, 1870	6 May, 1870
85	Antonio Leocadio Guzmán (2nd term)		6 May 1870	16 Sep 1872
86	Diego Bautista Barrios (2nd term)		18 Sep 1872	17 Oct 1872
87	Diego Bautista Barrios (3rd term)		18 Oct 1872	30 Jun 1873
88	Jacinto Gutiérrez Martínez (4th term)		30 Jun 1873	Dec 1874
89	Jesús María Bernal		Jan 1875	13 Jul 1876
90	Canuto García		13 Jul 1876	25 Sep 1876
91	Eduardo Calcaño		25 Sep 1876	3 Mar 1877
92	Raimundo Andueza Palacio	Francisco Linares Alcántara	3 Mar 1877	24 Nov 1877
93	Marco Antonio Saluzzo	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	24 Nov 1877	3 Apr 1878
94	Sebastián Casañas		9 Apr 878	15 Jun 1878
95	Rafael Seijas (4th term)		15 Jun 1878	5 Aug 1878
96	Trinidad Célis Ávila		5 Aug 1878	1 Jan 1879
97	Jacinto Gutiérrez Martínez (5th term)		1 Jan 1879	7 Jan 1879
98	Pedro Ezequiel Rojas		7 Jan 1879	25 Feb 1879
99	Eduardo Calcaño (2nd term)		25 Feb 1879	23 May 1879
100	Ángel Félix Barberii		26 May 1879	26 Nov 1879
101	Pedro José Saavedra		26 Nov 1879	1 Dec 1879
102	Julián Viso (2nd term)		1 Dec 1879	7 Jul 1880
103	Pedro José Saavedra (2nd term)		7 Jul 1880	30 Apr 1881
104	Rafael Seijas (5th term)		30 Apr 1881	27 Apr 1884
105	Vicente Amengual	Joaquín Crespo	27 Apr 1884	19 Dec 1884
106	Benjamín Qüenza		19 Dec 1884	19 Feb 1886
107	Ezequiel María González		19 Feb 1886	15 June 1886
108	Julián Viso (3rd term)		15 Jun 1886	14 Sept 1886
109	Diego Bautista Urbaneja		14 Sep 1886	5 Sep 1888
110	Nicanor Borges		5 Sep 1888	6 Nov 1888
111	Agustín Istúriz	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl	6 Nov 1888	19 Jan 1889
112	Nicanor Borges (2nd term)		19 Jan 1889	22 May 1889
113	Antonio Parejo		22 May 1889	29 Oct 1889
114	Pascual Casanova		29 Oct 1889	20 Jan 1890
115	Rafael Seijas (6th term)		20 Jan 1890	19 Mar 1890
116	Marco Antonio Saluzzo (2nd term)	Raimundo Andueza Palacio	19 Mar 1890	22 Aug 1891
117	Feliciano Acevedo		22 Aug 1891	19 Jan 1892
118	Manuel Clemente Urbaneja		19 Jan 1892	8 Oct 1892
119	1892 Pedro Ezequiel Rojas (2nd term)	Joaquín Crespo	8 Oct 1892	29 Mar 1895
120	Lucio Pulido		30 Mar 1895	23 Nov 1895
121	Pedro Ezequiel Rojas (3rd term)		23 Nov 1895	19 Feb 1898
122	Manuel Fombona Palacio		19 Feb 1898	28 Feb 1898
123	Juan Calcaño Mathieu	Ignacio Andrade	28 Feb 1898	6 Oct 1899
124	Bernardino Mosquera		6 Oct 1899	20 Oct 1899
125	Manuel Clemente Urbaneja (2nd term)		20 Oct 1899	23 Oct 1899
126	Raimundo Andueza Palacio (2nd term)	Cipriano Castro	23 Oct 1899	30 July 1900
127	Eduardo Blanco		30 July 1900	8 Nov 1901
128	Jacinto Regino Pachano		8 Nov 1901	22 Apr 1902
129	Manuel Fombona Palacio (2nd term)		1902	1902
130	Diego Bautista Ferrer		10 May 1902	4 Jul 1902
131	Rafael López Baralt		4 Jul 1902	25 Apr 1903
132	Alejandro Urbaneja		25 Apr 1903	3 Nov 1903
133	Gustavo J. Sanabria		3 Nov 1903	17 Jan 1905
134	Alejandro Ybarra		17 Jan 1905	9 Apr 1906
135	Luis Churión		10 Apr 1906	17 May 1906
136	José de Jesús Paúl		17 May 1906	14 June 1907
137	Luis Churión (2nd term)		14 June 1907	8 Aug 1907
138	José de Jesús Paúl (2nd term)		8 Aug 1907	19 Dec 1908
139	Francisco González Guinán	Juan Vicente Gómez	19 Dec 1908	13 Aug 1909
140	Juan Pietri		13 Aug 1909	28 Apr 1910
141	Ángel César Rivas		28 Apr 1910	3 Jun 1910
142	Manuel Antonio Matos		3 Jun 1910	30 Apr 1912
143	José Ladislao Andara		30 Apr 1912	9 Dec 1913
144	Manuel Díaz Rodríguez		9 Dec 1913	22 Oct 1914
145	Ignacio Andrade		2 Oct 1914	7 Sept 1917
146	Bernardino Mosquera (2nd term)		1917	1919
147	Esteban Gil Borges		2 Jan 1919	7 July 1921
148	Pedro Itriago Chacín	Eleazar López Contreras	7 July 1921	15 Feb 1936
149	Esteban Gil Borges (2nd term)		17 Feb 1936	5 May 1941
150	Caracciolo Parra Pérez	Isaías Medina Angarita	5 May 1941	14 Jul 1945
151	Gustavo Herrera Grau		14 Jul 1945	18 Oct 1945
152	Carlos Morales	Rómulo Betancourt	21 Oct 1945	3 Nov 1947
153	Gonzalo Barrios (interim)		3 Nov 1947	15 Feb 1948
154	Andrés Eloy Blanco	Rómulo Gallegos	15 Feb 1948	24 Nov 1948
155	Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud	25 Nov 1948	19 Sep 1948
156	Germán Suárez Flamerich		19 Sep 1949	16 Feb 1950
157	Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz (2nd term)	Germán Suárez Flamerich	16 Feb 1950	6 Oct 1952
158	Aureliano Otáñez	Marcos Pérez Jiménez	6 Oct 1952	16 Feb 1956
159	José Loreto Arismendi		16 Feb 1956	10 Jan 1958
160	Carlos Felice Cardot		10 Jan 1958	23 Jan 1958
161	Óscar García Velutini	Wolfgang Larrazabal	23 Jan 1958	28 May 1958
162	René De Sola	Edgar Sanabria	28 May 1958	13 Feb 1959
163	Ignacio Luis Arcaya	Rómulo Betancourt	13 Feb 1959	25 Oct 1960
164	Marcos Falcón Briceño		25 Oct 1960	11 Mar 1964
165	Ignacio Iribarren Borges	Raúl Leoni	11 Mar 1964	11 Mar 1969
166	Arístides Calvani	Rafael Caldera	11 Mar 1969	12 Mar 1974
167	Efraín Schacht Aristeguieta	Carlos Andrés Pérez	12 Mar 1974	23 Jan 1975
168	Ramón Escovar Salom		23 Jan 1975	15 Jul 1977
169	Simón Alberto Consalvi		15 July 1977	12 Mar 1979
170	José Alberto Zambrano Velasco	Luis Herrera Campins	12 Mar 1979	2 Feb 1984
171	Isidro Morales Paúl	Jaime Lusinchi	2 Feb 1984	13 Mar 1985
172	Simón Alberto Consalvi (2nd term)		13 Mar 1985	11 Jan 1988
173	Germán Nava Carrillo		11 Jan 1988	2 Feb 1989
174	Enrique Tejera París	Carlos Andrés Pérez	2 Feb 1989	27 Aug 1989
175	Reinaldo Figueredo		27 Aug 1989	15 Apr 1991
176	Armando Durán		15 Apr 1991	10 Mar 1992
177	Humberto Calderón Berti		10 Mar 1992	12 June 1992
178	Fernando Ochoa Antich	Ramón José Velásquez Carlos Andrés Pérez	12 Jun 1992	2 Feb 1994
179	Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas	Rafael Caldera	2 Feb 1994	2 Feb 1999
180	José Vicente Rangel	Hugo Chavez	2 Feb 1999	14 Feb 2001
181	Luis Alfonso Dávila		15 Feb 2001	30 May 2002
	José Rodríguez Iturbe		2002	2002
181	Luis Alfonso Dávila (2nd term)		15 Feb 2002	30 May 2002
182	Roy Chaderton		30 May 2002	13 Jul 2004
183	Jesús Pérez		13 Jul 2004	20 Nov 2004
184	Alí Rodríguez Araque		20 Nov 2004	7 Aug 2006
185	Nicolás Maduro		9 Aug 2006	16 Jan 2013
186	Elías Jaua		16 Jan 2013	5 Mar 2013
187	Elías Jaua (2nd term)	Nicolás Maduro	5 Mar 2013	2 Sep 2014
188	Rafael Ramírez		2 Sep 2014	25 Dec 2014
189	Delcy Rodríguez		26 Dec 2014	21 June 2017
190	Samuel Moncada		21 Jun 2017	2 Aug 2017
191	Jorge Arreaza		2 Aug 2017	20 Aug 2021
192	Felix Plasencia		20 Aug 2021	16 May 2022
193	Carlos Faría		16 May 2022	6 Jan 2023
194	Yván Gil		6 Jan 2023	10 Jan 2025
195	Yván Gil	Nicolás Maduro	10 Jan 2025

Gallery

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  Juan Germán Roscio
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  Pedro Gual
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  Santos Michelena
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  Antonio Leocadio Guzmán
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  Diego Bautista Urbaneja
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  Wenceslao Urrutia
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  Fermín Toro
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  Carlos Soublette
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  Antonio Guzmán Blanco
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  Guillermo Tell Villegas
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  Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl
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  Raimundo Andueza Palacio
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  Francisco González Guinán
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  Manuel Antonio Matos
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  Manuel Díaz Rodríguez
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  Ignacio Andrade
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  Pedro Itriago Chacín
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  Esteban Gil Borges
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  Gonzalo Barrios
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  Andrés Eloy Blanco
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  Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz
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  Germán Suárez Flamerich
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  Ignacio Iribarren Borges
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  Aristides Calvani
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  Ramón Escovar Salom
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  Simón Alberto Consalvi
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  Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas
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  José Vicente Rangel
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  Alí Rodríguez Araque
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  Nicolás Maduro
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  Elias Jaua Milano
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  Rafael Ramírez
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  Delcy Rodríguez
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  Jorge Arreaza
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  Yván Gil

See also

• List of current foreign ministers
• List of presidents of Venezuela
• Foreign policy of Venezuela