Ambassador of India to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay since 10 october 2007.Head of the Latin America and Caribbean Division in the Ministry of External Affairs in India from 2004 to 2007.
Ambassador to Venezuela in 2000-2003.
Consul General of India in Sao Paulo from 1996 to 2000
Previous postings include New York ( mission to the United Nations), Mauritius, Libya, Pakistan and Portugal.
Since 1996 he has been specialising in Latin America
‘Passionate about Latin America’ is how his calling card describes him. After five years as Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Brazil, three years as India’s Ambassador in Venezuela, and three more as Joint Secretary, Latin American Countries, in the Ministry of External Affairs,
Mr R. Viswanathan, is perhaps the country’s best resource-person for anything relating to the landmass south of Texas and down to the South pole.
Mr Viswanathan, once an ambitious village lad who had to scrounge for school textbooks as his family could not afford to buy them, and who could not understand a word of English until he was in college, today knows Latin America like the back of his hand. He combines this knowledge with his fluency in Portuguese and Spanish that he expects will help him in his mission to bridge the distance between India and Latin America..............................The Hindu Business Line
http://www.rviswanathan.com/profile.html
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