Diosdado Cabello
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3rd Vice-President of Venezuela
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| Assumed office January 13, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Adina Bastidas |
| Succeeded by | José Vicente Rangel |
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| Born | April 15, 1963 El Furrial, Monagas State,  Venezuela |
Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963) is a Venezuelan politician. He was appointed Vice President by President Hugo Chávez on January 13, 2002, replacing Adina Bastidas. As such, he was responsible to both the president and the National Assembly, and for the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the government.
| Miranda State Governor Election, 2004 Results Source: CNE data |
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Diosdado Cabello was born in El Furrial, Monagas State. His background is in engineering: he has an undergraduate degree in systems engineering and a graduate degree in engineering project management from military universities. A former member of the armed forces, he was involved in Chávez's abortive coup d'état of February 1992. Following Chávez's 1998 electoral victory, he helped set up the pro-Chávez grassroots civil society organizations known as "Bolivarian Circles".
On April 13, 2002, he took on the duties of the presidency on a temporary basis, replacing Pedro Carmona, head of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, as interim president after the coup d'état when Chávez was kept prisoner and was consequently absent from office. Upon taking office, Cabello said that "I, Diosdado Cabello, am assuming the presidency until such time as the president of the republic, Hugo Chávez Frías, appears." A few hours later, Chávez was back in office.
On April 28, 2002, Cabello was replaced as Vice President by José Vicente Rangel. He was named interior minister in May 2002,[1] and then infrastructure minister in January 2003. In October 2004, he was elected to a four-year term as Governor of Miranda State.
His sister Glenna Daboin is a political scientist residing in the U.S. and his brother José David Cabello was the Minister of Infrastructure in Venezuela.
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- ^ "Venezuela president names new cabinet", BBC News, May 6, 2002.
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Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla |
Carabobo: Luis Acosta |
Merida: Florencio Porras |
Táchira: Roland Blanco |
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| Preceded by Adina Bastidas Ramírez |
Vice-President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 2002–2002 |
Succeeded by José Vicente Rangel Vale |
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