Delcy Rodríguez

Delcy Rodríguez
President of the Constituent Assembly
Assumed office
4 August 2017
President Nicolás Maduro
Preceded by Luis Miquilena (1999)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
26 December 2014 – 21 June 2017
President Nicolás Maduro
Preceded by Rafael Ramírez
Succeeded by Samuel Moncada
Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information
In office
August 3, 2013 – October 13, 2014
President Nicolás Maduro
Preceded by Ernesto Villegas
Succeeded by Jacqueline Faria
Personal details
Born (1969-05-18) May 18, 1969
Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality Venezuelan
Political party United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez (born May 18, 1969) is a Venezuelan politician who has been President of the Constitutional Assembly of Venezuela since 4 August 2017. She was also Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of Venezuela from 2013[1] to 2014 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017.[2]

Biography

She is the sister of Jorge Rodriguez, who is currently the defacto mayor of Caracas. Their father, Jorge Rodríguez, was the founder of the leftist party Liga Socialista and was assassinated on July 25, 1976 in the country's central intelligence headquarters, known as Disip, (la Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención). Jorge Rodriguez Sr. was one of the kidnappers in Venezuela of the Executive of Owens-Illinois William F. Niehous.

Political career

She held several posts during the course of the Chavez administration: as International Affairs Director in the Ministry of Energy and Mines, in 2003; as Vice-minister for European Affairs in 2005; serving from February–August 2006 as the Minister for Presidential Affairs and the following year as General Coordinator to the Vice-President of Venezuela, both of which roles she held while her brother occupied the office of Vice President of the Republic. She was the Minister for Presidential Affairs in 2006.[3] Similarly, she was Vice Minister for Europe at the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Relations. She also served as the General Coordinator to the Vice President of Venezuela.[4] According to a profille published in the daily Tal Cual, Rodriguez pursued a concentration in labor law in Paris, France, taught at UCV and was a member of the Venezuelan Association of Labor Lawyers.[5]

Since 2016 Rodriguez has been an outspoken defender of Venezuelan government domestic actions in the face of calls from Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, to suspend Venezuelan membership in the organization for violating the OAS Democratic Charter.[6] On 21 June 2017, Rodriguez left her post to run for the Constituent National Assembly. President Maduro accepted her resignation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] She was succeeded by Samuel Moncada.[7]

Personal life

Rodríguez was in a relationship with Smartmatic co-founder Alfredo José Anzola Jaumotte prior to his death in April 2008.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nueva ministra de comunicaciones es la hermana de Jorge Rodríguez". El Nacional. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "¡Se acabó el berrinche! Delcy Eloína sale de la cancillería". La Patilla (in Spanish). 21 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Villegas celebra designación de Delcy Rodríguez como ministra". El Universal. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Perfil de Delcy Rodríguez: Ministra de Comunicación e Información". Noticia Al Dia. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Poderopedia, Equipo. "Delcy Rodríguez". poderopedia.org. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  6. ↑ "Kerry launches talks with Venezuela but backs disputed referendum". Reuters. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  7. ↑ "Venezuela's 'Tiger' Foreign Minister Rodriguez Quits". Voice of America. June 21, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017. Historian and deputy foreign minister Samuel Moncada will replace her, President Nicolas Maduro said, announcing the diplomatic shake-up in a speech on state TV.
  8. ↑ "Smartmatic, la polémica empresa de cómputos electorales que creció en Venezuela y llegó a la Argentina". iProfesional. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "El mega guiso de los hermanitos Rodríguez con Smartmatic". El Político (in Spanish). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
Political offices
Preceded by
Rafael Ramírez		 189th Minister of Foreign Affairs
December 26, 2014 – June 21, 2017 		Succeeded by
Samuel Moncada
Vacant
Title last held by
Luis Miquilena (1999)		 President of the
Constituent Assembly of Venezuela
Since 2017 		Incumbent
Assembly seats
New office Member of the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela for the municipality of Libertador, Caracas
Since 2017 		Incumbent


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