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César Mauricio Velásquez Ossa
César Mauricio Velásquez Ossa
Colombia Ambassador to the Holy See
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 18 October 2010
President	Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Preceded by	Juan Gómez Martínez
Press Secretary of the President of Colombia
	In office; 23 February 2007 – 7 August 2010
President	Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded by	Ricardo Galán Osma
Succeeded by	John Jairo Ocampo Niño
Personal details
Born	Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Nationality	Colombia
Alma mater	University of the Savannah (BJ, 1990); Complutense University of Madrid (MIA, 1999)
Profession	Journalist

César Mauricio Velásquez Ossa ^[1]^[2] was the Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See as of 2010.^[3]^[4] He had previously served as Press Secretary for President Álvaro Uribe Vélez from 2007 to 2010.^[5]

Selected works

Velásquez Ossa, César Mauricio (1995). Andrés Escobar: En Defensa de la Vida (in Spanish). Medellín: Bedout Editores. ISBN 978-958-03-0124-0. OCLC 39968933.

^ "Hoja de Vida" [Curriculum Vitae] (PDF) (in Spanish). Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. p. 1 Seccion 1 "Datos Personales". Retrieved 2011-08-22.
^ "El presidente Álvaro Uribe no tiene hora para llamar a su Secretario de Prensa" [President Álvaro Uribe does not have time to call his Press Secretary]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Medellín. 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
^ "Pope receives ambassadors from Colombia and El Salvador". Vatican Radio. 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-10-20.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "El Papa reiteró compromiso de la Iglesia por la paz en Colombia" [The Pope reiterated compromise of the Church for peace in Colombia]. Caracol Radio (in Spanish). 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
^ "Palabras de César Mauricio Vélasquez al Posesionarse Como Secretario de Prensa de la Presidencia" [Remarks César Mauricio Vélasquez On Being Sworn in as Press Secretary of the Presidency] (in Spanish). SNE. 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2010-10-20.