Canberra-based charge d'affaires for Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, Nelson Davila, is not your traditional diplomat

Nelson Davila, Venezuela's top diplomat in our region - Nelson Davila, Venezuela's Canberra-based charge d'affaires for Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, is not your traditional diplomat. He started out as a student activist during a period of mass mobilisations in Venezuela. He then became an indigenous rights activist, and later was a founding member of Hugo Chavez' revolutionary group Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement inside the Venezuelan armed forces.