Diego Arria is a Venezuelan politician, diplomat, and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1991–1993) and President of the Security Council (March 1992). He was Governor of the Federal District of Caracas in the mid-1970s and has since been a Diplomatic Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. Arria is a critic of former President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and denounced him at the International Criminal Court at the Hague for crimes against humanity.