Ramón José Velásquez

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Ramón José Velásquez

Ramón J. Velásquez during his 93rd birthday, 28 November 2009
President of Venezuela (acting)
In office 5 June 1993 – 2 February 1994
Preceded by	Octavio Lepage
Succeeded by	Rafael Caldera
Minister of Communications of Venezuela
In office 1969–1971
Secretary of the Presidency of Venezuela
In office 1959–1963
Succeeded by	Manuel Mantilla
Personal details
Born	(1916-11-28) 28 November 1916 San Juan de Colón, Táchira, Venezuela
Spouse(s)	Ligia Betancourt Mariño
Alma mater	Central University of Venezuela
Religion	Roman Catholic
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Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (born 28 November 1916) is a Venezuelan political figure. He served as President of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. He is known as a historian, journalist, lawyer, politician.

Background and personal life

Velásquez was born in Táchira state, on 28 November 1916. His parents were Ramon Velasquez Ordoñez, journalist and proofreader for a newspaper and educator Regina Mujica. He studied the hand of his parents in his hometown. He completed his primary education in high school in San Cristóbal Simón Bolívar. In 1935 he traveled to Caracas to finish high school at the Liceo Andres Bello, while it disagrees with the Gómez regime. Higher education made at the Central University of Venezuela, receiving a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences in 1942 and as Advocate in 1943.

Ramón José Velásquez currently resides in Caracas.

Writer

He became a reporter for Ultimas Noticias in 1941.^[1] Velásquez has been the president of El Nacional on two occasions (1964-1968/1979-1981).

As a historian, he had previously subscribed to the usual negative opinions of the Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, but re-examined them in Confidencias imaginarias de Juan Vicente Gómez (1979). (When became President, he presided over a ceremony renaming Juan Vicente Gómez International Airport in Gómez' honour.)^[2] He is the author of numerous books on Venezuela's political history.

Politician

During the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Velásquez was jailed for a year for his role at the compilation of the Libro negro de la dictadura (Black book of dictatorship). The files of this book helped expose the crimes of the dictatorial period.

In 1958, as Venezuela transitioned to democracy, Velásquez was elected to the Venezuelan Senate for the state of Tachira, and later to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies for the state of Miranda.^[3]

He served as the Secretary of the Presidency during the government of Rómulo Betancourt. After that, he was part of the National Congress. During Rafael Caldera's term at presidency, served as Minister of Communications from 1969 until 1971. From 1984 to 1987 he was President of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE), the Commission on the Reform of the State.^[3]

President

In 1993, as a result of the crisis produced by the impeachment of President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Congress designated him as President of the Republic, finishing the constitutional period in 1994. He served from 5 June 1993 to 2 February 1994. As a highly respected national figure there was general consensus around his name for such a task.^[3]

Velásquez's cabinet (1993-1994)

Ministries ^[4]
OFFICE	NAME	TERM

President	Ramón José Velásquez	1993–1994
Home Affairs	Carlos Delgado Chapellín	1993–1994

Outer Relations	Fernando Ochoa Antich	1993–1994
Finance	Carlos Rafael Silva	1993–1994
Defense	Iván Jiménez Sánchez	1993
	Radamés Muñoz León	1993
	Rafael Montero Revette	1993–1994
Development	Gustavo Pérez Mijares	1993–1994
Transport and communications	José Domingo Santander	1993–1994
Education	Elizabeth Yabour de Caldera	1993–1994
Justice	Fermín Mármol León	1993–1994
Mines and Hydrocarbons	Alirio Parra	1993–1994
Environment	Adalberto Gabaldón Azuaje	1993–1994
Agriculture	Hiram Gavira	1993–1994
Labor	Luis Horacio Vivas	1993–1994
Health and Social Assistance	Pablo Pulido Musche	1993–1994
Urban Development	Henry Jatar Senior	1993–1994
Family and Youth	Teresa Albánez	1993–1994
Secretary of Presidency	Ramón Espinoza	1993–1994
Office of Coordination and Planification	Hernán Anzola Jiménez	1993–1994
CVG	Francisco Layrisse	1993–1994

Honours

Maria Moors Cabot prize (1967)^[5]
Member of the National Academy of History of Venezuela (1968)^[3]
National Prize for Literature (1973, prose category, for La caída del liberalismo amarillo^[3]
Premio Nacional de Historia of Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (CONAC), 1980^[3]
Premio Nacional de Humanidades of CONAC, 1998^[3]
Member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua, 2002^[3]^[6]
Honorary doctorates from the University of the Andes (Venezuela), University of Carabobo, Rafael Urdaneta University (URU) and the National Experimental University of Táchira (UNET).^[3]

Books

La caída del Liberalismo Amarillo: tiempo y drama de Antonio Paredes (1972)
Confidencias imaginarias de Juan Vicente Gómez (1979)

References

↑ (Spanish)
↑ Ellner, Steve (1995), "Venezuelan Revisionist Political History, 1908-1958: New Motives and Criteria for Analyzing the Past", Latin American Research Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 91-121. p100
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 (Spanish) CIDOB, Ramón José Velásquez Mújica
↑ Gaceta Oficial de Venezuela, period 1993-1994.
↑ Columbia, Cabot Prize winners by name
↑ (Spanish) Academia Venezolana de la Lengua, D. Ramón J. Velásquez

Biography (in Spanish) by CIDOB Foundation
"La Paz Ramónica" (Velasquez´s government) by Edgar C. Otálvora(Spanish)
"RJV La Red de Liberales y Socialdemócratas". (Velasquez´s biography by Edgar C. Otálvora)(Spanish)

Political offices
Preceded by Octavio Lepage	President of Venezuela (acting) 1993–1994	Succeeded by Rafael Caldera

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Mendoza Bolívar Páez Vargas Carreño Narvarte Carreño Soublette Páez Soublette J. T. Monagas J. G. Monagas J. T. Monagas Gual J. Castro Gual Tovar Gual Páez Falcón Bruzual Villegas J. R. Monagas Villegas Guzmán Linares Valera Guzmán Crespo Guzmán H. López Rojas Andueza Villegas Villegas Pulido Crespo Andrade C. Castro Gómez Gil Fortoul Márquez Gómez J. Pérez Gómez López Contreras Medina Betancourt Gallegos Delgado Chalbaud Suárez Flamerich Pérez Jiménez Larrazábal Sanabria Betancourt Leoni Caldera C. Pérez Herrera Lusinchi C. Pérez Lepage (Acting) Velásquez Caldera Chávez Maduro

Persondata
Name	Velasquez, Ramon Jose
Alternative names
Short description	Venezuelan politician
Date of birth	28 November 1916
Place of birth	San Juan de Colón, Táchira, Venezuela
Date of death
Place of death

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