Herman Portocarero

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Full Name	Herman Portocarero
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 6, 1952(1952-01-06)
Age	72
Birthplace	Antwerp
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Capricorn

Herman Portocarero Biography

Herman Portocarero is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 6, 1952 in Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium. Herman J.P. Portocarero, a Belgian writer and diplomat with Portuguese and Spanish ancestry was born 6 January 1952 in Antwerp.

He was appointed ambassador to Belgium in Havana in 1995. From mid-1999, he was active in encouraging people-to-people contact between Europe and Cuba, particularly in the area of higher education. He made close personal connections in Cuban society and engaged the authorities to find common ground on sensitive issues.

In 2000 he took up UN diplomacy again (2000–2003), and after an intermediary posting as consul general in Atlanta, Georgia, returned to Kingston, Jamaica, in 2004 as ambassador to the entire Anglophone Caribbean island region, as well as to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. His work was mostly economic in Jamaica, chiefly helping to rebuild a public transportation system and infrastructure in Kingston, and politico-military in Haiti, monitoring the UN peacekeeping and institution-building efforts. At the end of his ambassadorship in Kingston, in 2008, he became consul general in New York, where he was mostly active as a lobbyist and fundraiser, including for major Belgian arts events in New York and elsewhere in the U.S.

The next critical and commercial success came in 2006 with New Yorkse Nachten (New York Nights), a post-9/11 crime and corruption story. It won the Hercule Poirot Prize for best crime fiction.

Portocarero created the structure and the Latin libretto of the requiem Flamma Flamma by Nicholas Lens. Flamma Flamma is a monumental neoclassical piece that continues to be performed and broadcast around the world since its 1993 debut.

Herman Portocarero Net Worth

Herman Portocarero is one of the richest Writer from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Herman Portocarero 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Portocarero graduated from Antwerp University’s law school. He then practiced law at Antwerp’s bar. In 1978, he joined the Belgian diplomatic corps. His first assignment was at the Belgian permanent representative to UNESCO in Paris. He joined the Embassy of Belgium, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in 1979. His primary task was to monitor Ethiopian politics, civil wars, and other Cold War proxy phenomena. To do this, he traveled extensively throughout the country in often dangerous conditions. He moved to Jamaica in late 1982, and began a long and complex relationship with the Caribbean.

As a UN-related diplomat, he began his long career in Kingston in 1983 when he was deeply involved in the negotiations for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. After he left Kingston in 1983, he moved to New York and became a full-time UN worker. Portocarero served his first tour of duty in Iraq during the sabbatical 1989-1990. He then worked as an independent consultant with the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres, in Sudan and Nicaragua. This included at the fronts civil wars, in Darfur and Bar-el Ghazal, in Sudan, and along the Sandinista-Contra lines in Nicaragua. In late 1990, he returned to diplomatic work and UN work. This included during Belgium’s mandate at the Security Council (1991-1992), in the aftermath and the Balkan wars. He returned to New York in 1992 full-time, and became one the most active lobbyists of the UN Convention against anti-personnel mines. According to him, the UN’s passing of this treaty was the most satisfying result of his UN work. He was involved in reforming UN peacekeeping operations after the UNAMIR failed mission in Rwanda. In November 1994, he addressed the Security Council about this topic.

His most successful work to date, Cubaanse Nachten (Cuban Nights, 2000), based on his experiences during the years 1995-1999 in Havana, is the best illustration of this new approach. The book combines a quasi-telenovela narrative about daily life in Cuba with short intervening chapters retracing Cuba’s complex history and politics. Cuba also took center stage in his next book, Trance Atlantico (2001), an occult detective story based on an impressive African sculpture, setting in motion intrigues in a triangle between Havana, the Congo, and Brussels.

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