Ernesto Villegas | |
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2nd Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District | |
In office October 13, 2014 –May 26, 2015 | |
President | Nicolás Maduro |
Preceded by | Jacqueline Faría |
Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Dugarte |
Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas | |
Assumed office December 2013 | |
President | Nicolás Maduro |
Preceded by | Francisco de Asís Sesto Novas |
Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information | |
In office October 4,2016 –November 3,2017 | |
President | Nicolás Maduro |
Preceded by | Luis JoséMarcano Salazar |
Succeeded by | Jorge Rodríguez |
In office October 13,2012 –August 4,2013 | |
President | Hugo Chávez (2012–2013) Nicolas Maduro (2013) |
Preceded by | Andrés Izarra |
Succeeded by | Delcy Rodríguez |
Personal details | |
Born | Caracas,Venezuela | 29 April 1970
Political party | United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) |
Spouse | Klara Aguilar Vásquez |
Alma mater | Central University of Venezuela |
Ernesto Emilio Villegas Poljak is a journalist,politician,and writer from Venezuela.
Ernesto Villegas was born in Caracas in 1970. He is the youngest of eight children,two of them,Mario and Vladimir,Alice,Clara,Esperanza,Tatiana and Asia. [1]
He is the son of Cruz Villegas,head union communist, [2] confined to the Amazon jungle during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez,and former president of the United Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions. His mother,Maja Poljak was Jewish and a Communist social activist and photographer born in Zagreb,Croatia,formerly Yugoslavia. [1]
Villegas graduated as a journalist from Central University of Venezuela. He had worked in media such as newspapers Economía Hoy,El Nuevo País, El Universal and Quinto Día,En Confianza,DespertóVenezuela and Toda Venezuela of Venezolana de Televisión. He was the editor of the newspaper Ciudad Caracas. [3]
He was the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information from October 2012 until August 2013. Later,he was appointed as Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas since December 2013. From October 2014 to May 2015,he was the Head of Government for the Venezuelan Capital District.
In November 2017,Ernesto Villegas was sanctioned by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control after the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election. [4]
On 29 March 2018,Villegas was sanctioned by the Panamanian government for his alleged involvement with "money laundering,financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction". [5] [6]
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