Jorge Valero Briceño (born 8 November 1946 in Valera, Trujillo) is a Venezuelan diplomat.

He was the President of the Latin American Parliament's Social Debt Commission (Comisión de la Deuda Social del Parlamento Latinoamericano).

In 1999, Valero was Venezuela's Representative on the Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID),[3] and in 2000 he was the President of the Presidential Preparatory Commission for the OPEC Summit hosted in Caracas that year.

Valero currently serves as Deputy Foreign Minister for North America and Multilateral Affairs and also as the Permanent Representative for Venezuela to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).

[4] During the 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis, he accused the government of Colombia of state terrorism and genocide for its long armed conflict with the FARC rebels.