The Bolivarian National Intelligence Service is the premier intelligence agency in Venezuela. SEBIN is an internal security force subordinate to the Vice President of Venezuela since 2012 and is dependent on Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. SEBIN has been described as the political police force of the Bolivarian government.
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. She is married to the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro,making her the First Lady. Since 2015,she has also been a deputy in the National Assembly of Venezuela,of which she was president from 2006 to 2011,for her home state of Cojedes. In 2017,the Constituent National Assembly was founded,in which she is a member of the Presidential Commission.
The Venezuelan Economic and Social Development Bank is a Venezuelan federal public company,sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury,that is associated with the Ministry of Finance. It serves as a bank focused on financing projects that contribute toward the development of Venezuela. It was founded in 2001. It has subsidiaries that are based in Venezuela,Uruguay and Bolivia;the subsidiaries are Banco Bandes Uruguay,Banco Bicentenario del Pueblos,Banco Universal SA Banco de Venezuela,and Banco Prodem SA,of Bolivia.
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah is a Venezuelan politician,who served as the vice president of Venezuela from 2017 to 2018. He served as Minister of Industries and National Production since 14 June 2018,and as Minister of Petroleum since 27 April 2020 until March 20,2023. He previously was Minister of the Interior and Justice from 2008 to 2012,Governor of Aragua from 2012 to 2017 and the vice president of Venezuela from 2017 to 2018. While holding that office,El Aissami faced allegations of participating in corruption,money laundering and drug trafficking. In 2019,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added El Aissami to the ICE Most Wanted List,listed by the Homeland Security Investigations unit. El Aissami,who was among the power brokers in the Nicolas Maduro regime,resigned in March 20,2023 to his posts amid widening corruption probe.
Jorge Luis García Carneiro was a Venezuelan politician. He was elected the governor of Vargas in 2008,having previously been head of the Venezuelan Army,Minister of Defense,and Minister for Social Development and Popular Participation. He was a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) of Venezuela's late president,Hugo Chávez.
Gustavo Enrique González López is the former Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Interior,Justice and Peace (MPPRIJP) in 2015-2016 and is the current director of the National Intelligence Service (SEBIN).
Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra is a Venezuelan politician and the son of the President of Venezuela,Nicolás Maduro. He was appointed as Head of the Corps of Special Inspectors of the Presidency and Coordinator of the National Film School of Venezuela by his father. He was also elected by the PSUV party congress in 2014 to be the delegate of El Valle Capital District.
Maikel JoséMoreno Pérez is a lawyer,doctor of Venezuelan constitutional law,and judge who currently serves as president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela.
Juan Gerardo GuaidóMárquez is a Venezuelan politician,member of the social-democratic Popular Will party and federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. On 23 January 2019,Guaidóand the National Assembly declared that he was acting president of Venezuela,starting the Venezuelan presidential crisis by challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency. In December 2022,opposition parties voted to dissolve the Guaidóinterim government,and the dissolution occurred on 5 January 2023,ending Guaidó's presidential claim.
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela which lasted from 2019 to 2023,with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó.
The 2019 Venezuelan protests were a collection of protests that were organized,since 11 January,as a coordinated effort to remove Nicolás Maduro from the presidency. Demonstrations began following Maduro's controversial second inauguration,developing into a presidential crisis between Maduro and National Assembly president Juan Guaidó. The protests also included counter-demonstrations organized by those who support Maduro.
Roberto Eugenio Marrero Borjas is a Venezuelan attorney,politician,and chief of staff to Juan Guaidó;he was arrested by SEBIN during a raid on his home in the early morning hours of 21 March 2019,and detained in El Helicoide,a prison run by SEBIN and "considered the country's largest torture center" according to Clarín. Marrero is also an attorney for Leopoldo López;López is Guaidó's mentor and a political prisoner.
During the crisis in Venezuela,governments of the United States,the European Union,Canada,Mexico,Panama and Switzerland applied individual sanctions against people associated with the administration of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions were in response to repression during the 2014 Venezuelan protests and the 2017 Venezuelan protests,and activities during the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election and the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election. Sanctions were placed on current and former government officials,including members of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) and the 2017 Constituent National Assembly (ANC),members of the military and security forces,and private individuals accused of being involved in human rights abuses,corruption,degradation in the rule of law and repression of democracy.
Defections from the Bolivarian Revolution occurred under the administrations of Presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. The 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis concerning who is the legitimate President of Venezuela has been underway since 10 January 2019,when the opposition-majority National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 reelection was invalid and the body declared its president,Juan Guaidó,to be acting president of the nation. Guaidóencouraged military personnel and security officials to withdraw support from Maduro,and offered an amnesty law,approved by the National Assembly,for military personnel and authorities who help to restore constitutional order.
On 30 April,during the Venezuelan presidential crisis,a group of several dozen military personnel and civilians joined Juan Guaidóin his call for an uprising against Nicolás Maduro as part of what he labeled "Operation Freedom". Reuters reported an "uneasy peace" by the afternoon of 30 April. During the uprising attempt,opposition leader Leopoldo López was freed from house arrest after being imprisoned for five years. The head of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service,Manuel Cristopher Figuera denounced the Maduro government and was dismissed from his position before going into hiding. At least 25 military men who opposed Maduro sought asylum at the Brazilian embassy in Caracas.
Raúl Gorrín Belisario is a fugitive Venezuelan lawyer and businessman who currently serves as president of Globovisión and La Vitalicia insurance company. Due to his close relationship with the Venezuelan government,he is currently subjected to US sanctions over a corruption scheme involving bribery payments to Chávez-era government ministers. In November 2019,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added Raúl Gorrín to the ICE Most Wanted List accused of money laundering.
Darío Ramón Vivas Velasco was a Venezuelan politician,member of the 2017 National Constituent Assembly and the Governor of the Capital District. Vivas formerly served as National Assembly deputy representing the Capital District for two consecutive periods. He also served as its first vice president twice (2010–2011) and (2013–2015) and as vice president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in 2015.
Cliver Antonio AlcaláCordones,is a retired Venezuelan major general and a member of the Bolivarian Army. Clíver Alcaláwas one of the soldiers who participated in the attempted coup d'état against President Carlos Andrés Pérez in February 1992,and served as chief of garrison in the cities of both Valencia and Maracay,and finally as general commander of the Integral Defense Region in Guayana (REDI-Guayana). AlcaláCordones was discharged from the Army on 5 July 2013 during the presidency of Nicolás Maduro.
Erika del Valle Farías Peña is a Venezuelan politician. She served as Minister for the Office of the Presidency three times as Minister for Urban Agriculture,Minister for the Communes and deputy to the 2017 National Constituent Assembly. She is a militant and member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV),and is currently the mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality of Caracas.
Indira Maira Alfonzo Izaguirre is a Venezuelan judge who until May 2020 served as the first vice president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) and as president of the Electoral Chamber. In June 2020,she sworn in as chief rector and president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) by the TSJ,to organize 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Her position in the CNE is contested by the National Assembly,organism in charge of selecting the CNE members,but the parliament was deemed in “unconstitutional omission”by the TSJ.
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