Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus is a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist, named ambassador from Venezuela to Argentina by Juan Guaidó during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, and recognized immediately by Argentine president Mauricio Macri.[1] The following administration of Alberto Fernández removed Trotta Gamus credentials.[2]
Trotta Gamus was born in Venezuela.[1] Her mother was communist.[1] Her father is Argentine lawyer Alberto Trotta, who was a political prisoner, went into exile in 1975, spent time in Venezuela, and had his family while there.[1] She obtained her law degree from the Central University of Venezuela, and two master's degrees from Brandeis University in Boston,[3] where she was a Fulbright scholar.[4] She has been living in Argentina since 2011.[1]
Trotta Gamus specialized in human rights and international law.[4] She was director of institutional programs for the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, working for governor María Eugenia Vidal.[1] She was also president of Alianza por Venezuela,[1] a network of exiled Venezuelans.[4]
She is a chavismo critic, saying that Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro created a "narcostate".[5] She is Jewish,[5] and was a diplomat to the Latin American Jewish Congress [6]