Luis Miquilena
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| Luis Manuel Miquilena Hernández | |
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| Born | July 29, 1919 Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela |
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| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Political party | PCV, PRP, URD, MVR |
| Profession | industrialist, politician |
Luis Manuel Miquilena Hernández is a Venezuelan politician. He was born on July 29, 1919 in Santa Ana de Coro, Falcón.
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[edit] First political career
Miquilena began his political career with the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) in the 1941 as Secretary General of the Union of Bus Drivers (Spanish: Sindicato de Autobuseros), allied with President Isaías Medina Angarita. He remained with the PCV for the next four years. Later, he formed his opposition to the government of Rómulo Betancourt. In 1945, he broke with the PCV over their support of Betancourt and formed his own political party, the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat (PRP). The PRP was short-lived, lasting from the overthrow of the Gallegos government until the rise of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Between 1952 and 1958, he opposed the practice of President Jiménez jailing opponents of the regime. This ended when Jiménez was overthrown in 1958, and the Pacto de Punto Fijo was signed in an attempt to stabilize the fledgling democracy formed in its place. During this time, Miquilena joined the Democratic Republican Union (URD) party.
In 1959, Miquilena became the owner and director of the newspaper El Clarín, where he moved the newspaper away from supporting the second government of Rómulo Betancourt and eventually toward opposing it over its opposition of the Cuban government of Fidel Castro and its repression of left-wing political groups.
In 1961, he became a Representative for the state of Falcón in the House of Representatives. In 1964, he left the staff of El Clarín, abandoned the URD, and retired from political life. For the next 30 years, he dedicated himself to business, becoming a landowner and industrialist.
In the 1990s, he met Hugo Chávez, returning to the political area as one of the founders of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), to be renamed in 2007 to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
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* Marta Harnacker. Interview to Hugo Chavez. “A Man, a Town”. # 134, 135 and 412. 15/Agosto/2002. Págs. 26 and 67. * Marta Harnacker. Adjustments of: “Interventions of the President day 12 of Nov. 2004 (Theater of the Military school)”. # 204. P 34. * “the Greater Threat to the Revolution this on the inside”. Interview to Hugo Chavez. Daily Panorama. 26/11/2006. * “Chávez Ours”. Interview to Hugo Chavez. Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Luis Báez. Hiru editorial. P 33. * Where goes Chávez? “. Interview to Hugo Chavez. Manuel Cabieses. Director Punto Final. 19/Agosto/2005. * [http://www.rae.es/RAE/Noticias.nsf/Home?ReadForm Dictionary of the Real Academy]. Twentiech second Edition.
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