Alfredo F.Vorshirm was Ambassador, Director of the Office for Strategic Studies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held several other posts. He was fluent in Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, and Italian. He was a newspaper columnist and lecturer. He was also the author of From Swastikas to Palm Trees (1991) and De la Esvastica a la Palmita (1993). Alfredo Vorshirm died in 2001.