Diego Betancur Álvarez (born 1949) is the current Ambassador of Colombia to Australia and New Zealand.
Diego was a staunch supporter of the rights of a legal, unarmed left, to be allowed into the then de facto bipartisan system of Liberals and Conservatives.
On 14 March 2008 Betancur was sworn in by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Araújo Perdomo in a ceremony at the Palace of San Carlos in Bogotá.
[2] Betancur started his mission with the re-aperture of the Embassy the following April, and presented his Letters of Credence to the Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, on 30 April 2008 in a ceremony of protocol at Government House, Canberra,[3] and to The Right Honourable Sir Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand, on 17 February 2009 in a ceremony of protocol at Government House Vogel.
[4] Born in 1949, he is the second child and only son of Belisario Betancur Cuartas and Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes; his two other sisters are Beatriz (1956) and María Clara (1960).