The Ministry of Transport and Communications (Spanish: Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Transporte y Comunicaciones "Ministry of Popular Power for Transportation and Communications", MTC) of Venezuela was created in June 2010, to cover transport and communications in Venezuela. Its creation saw the disappearance of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Ministerio del Poder Popular para las Obras Públicas y Vivienda), split into this ministry and the Ministerio del Poder Popular para Vivienda y Hábitat . [1] Its headquarters were in the Torre MTC in Chacao, Caracas, Miranda. [2] In November 2011 Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, announced that the MTC would be divided into two ministries, the Ministry of Aquatic and Air Transport and the Ministry of Ground Transport. [3]
Among other responsibilities the ministry covered the air accident investigation body (Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación Civil), [4] Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela) and the airline Conviasa; and the railways agency Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado and various metro systems including the Caracas Metro. [5] Conviasa, the airport, and the new air accident investigation body are now under the Ministry of Aquatic and Air Transport (Ministerio del Poder Popular para Transporte Acuático y Aéreo). [6]
Ministros de Transporte y Comunicaciones de Venezuela | |||
# | Name | Period | President |
---|---|---|---|
1 | José Cecilio Castro | 1887 - 1888 | Hermógenes López |
1 | Víctor Rodríguez | 1899 | Cipriano Castro |
2 | Juan Otáñez Maucó | 1899 - 1902 | Cipriano Castro |
3 | Rafael María Carabaño | 1902 - 1903 | Cipriano Castro |
4 | Ricardo Castillo Chapellín | 1903 | Cipriano Castro |
5 | Alejandro Rivas Vásquez | 1903 - 1904 | Cipriano Castro |
6 | Ricardo Castillo Chapellín | 1904 - 1906 | Cipriano Castro |
7 | Luis Mata Illas | 1906 | Cipriano Castro |
8 | Juan Casanova | 1906 - 1908 | Cipriano Castro |
1 | Antonio Díaz | 1935 - 1936 | Eleazar López Contreras |
2 | Tomás Pacaninis | 1936 - 1938 | Eleazar López Contreras |
3 | Enrique Jorge Aguerrevere | 1938 - 1941 | Eleazar López Contreras |
1 | Manuel Silveira | 1941 - 1945 | Isaías Medina Angarita |
1 | Luis Lander | 1945 - 1946 | Rómulo Betancourt |
2 | Eduardo Mier y Terán | 1946 - 1947 | Rómulo Betancourt |
3 | Edgar Pardo Stolk | 1947 - 1948 | Rómulo Betancourt |
1 | Edgar Pardo Stolk | 1948 | Rómulo Gallegos |
1 | Luis Eduardo Chataing | 1952 - 1953 | Marcos Pérez Jiménez |
2 | Julio Bacalao Lara | 1953 - 1956 | Marcos Pérez Jiménez |
3 | Oscar Rodríguez Gragirena | 1956 - 1958 | Marcos Pérez Jiménez |
4 | Oscar Mazzei | 1958 | Marcos Pérez Jiménez |
1 | Santiago Hernández Ron | 1959 - 1960 | Rómulo Betancourt |
2 | Rafael De León Álvarez | 1960 - 1962 | Rómulo Betancourt |
3 | Leopoldo Sucre Figarella | 1962 - 1964 | Rómulo Betancourt |
1 | Leopoldo Sucre Figarella | 1964 - 1969 | Raúl Leoni |
1 | José Curiel | 1969 - 1974 | Rafael Caldera |
1 | Jesús Vivas Casanova | 1977 - 1979 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
2 | José Ignacio Álvarez Maldonado | 1979 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
1 | Orlando Orozco | 1979 - 1982 | Luis Herrera Campins |
2 | María Cristina Maldonado | 1982 - 1984 | Luis Herrera Campins |
1 | Juan Pedro del Moral | 1984 - 1988 | Jaime Lusinchi |
2 | Vicente Pérez Cayena | 1988 - 1989 | Jaime Lusinchi |
1 | Gustavo José Rada | 1989 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
2 | Augusto Faría Viso | 1989 - 1990 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
3 | Roberto Smith Perera | 1990 - 1992 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
4 | Fernando Martínez Mottola | 1992 - 1993 | Carlos Andrés Pérez |
1 | José Domingo Santander | 1993 - 1994 | Ramón José Velásquez |
1 | César Quintín Rosales | 1994 | Rafael Caldera |
2 | Ciro Zaa Álvarez | 1994 - 1996 | Rafael Caldera |
3 | Moisés Orozco Graterol | 1996 - 1998 | Rafael Caldera |
4 | Julio César Martí Espina | 1998 - 1999 | Rafael Caldera |
1 | Francisco Garcés | 2010 - 2011 | Hugo Chávez |
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