Vladimir Villegas

Vladimir Villegas Poljak (born 11 December 1961[1]) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician, and (since May 2013) news director of Globovisión. He was President of Venezolana de Televisión from late 2003 to December 2004.[2] He has written regularly for El Nacional and El Mundo, with a weekly column in El Nacional.[2] He is a supporter of the new (2012) party Avanzada Progresista,[3] having previously been a supporter of Patria Para Todos.

In the Venezuelan general election, 1993 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for La Causa Radical, representing the Venezuelan Federal District,[4] and was re-elected in the 1998 elections.[1] He was a member of the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela which drew up the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela. He was the Venezuelan Ambassador to Brazil in 2002, and Ambassador to Mexico from May to November 2005, until the Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis saw him recalled to Caracas.[5] In 2006 he was named deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania;[5][6] he resigned in 2007 over disagreements regarding the 2007 constitutional referendum.[1]

Villegas is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist,[7] confined to the Amazon jungle during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and former president of the United Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions. His mother, Maja Poljak was Jewish Communist social activist and photographer born in Zagreb, Croatia, formerly Yugoslavia. At university Villegas was a leader of the Communist Party of Venezuela, and he began his journalistic career at the Party's Tribuna Popular.[5] Later he became close to La Causa Radical and took a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.[6] He is the brother of the journalist and politician Ernesto Villegas, Minister of Communications since October 2012.[5][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 (in Spanish) Daniel Suárez/DLATáchira, Diario de los Andes, 23 June 2012, “Siempre habrá conflictos entre el periodismo y los poderes”
  2. 1 2 Venezuelanalysis.com, 3 April 2013, Venezuela's Globovisión to be Sold but will Maintain Political Line
  3. ↑ (in Spanish) Vladimir Villegas, noticias24.com, 3 July 2012,Avanzada Progresista “se convertirá en una referencia para quienes creen en la Constitución”
  4. ↑ (in Spanish) notitarde.com, 23 August 2010, La Causa R
  5. 1 2 3 4 (in Spanish) Últimas Noticias, 2 May 2013, Perfil | Conozca a Vladimir Villegas, el nuevo director de Globovisión Archived 2013-08-30 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. 1 2 (in Spanish) El Nacional Web, 2 May 2013, Además de periodista, diputado y miembro de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, ocupó cargos de cancillería Archived 2013-05-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Cruz Villegas: "Un hombre de firmes principios y gran sensibilidad social"". Noticias24. January 16, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ (in Spanish) Vladimir Villegas, El Tiempo, 14 April 2013, Nicolás Maduro, de chofer a heredero del chavismo; see also es:Ernesto Villegas
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