Elisa Vargas is a multidisciplinary scholar who holds a PhD and an Advanced Studies Diploma in Spanish-American History at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain, based on her investigation “Territory, Landscape and the Construction of a New Republic.” She holds a Master´s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Vargas was a fellow of the Fred W. Smith Library in Mount Vernon and at the Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Program of the Department of State, Washington D.C., after serving as Advisor for the Presidency of Colombia. She has served as a diplomat and lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Program for Latin American Studies and the Masters Program in International Affairs of the University Pontificia de Comillas.
At the beginning of March 1777, Arthur Lee, a delegate to the United States Congress, urgently requested to meet with the Marquis de Grimaldi, who until just a few weeks before had been the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of King Carlos III of Spain, and who was now on his way to take […]
