Ana Mercedes Díaz Cardozo

Ana Díaz was born on 24 March 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela.Her parents are both dentistry professionals. She is the youngest of five siblings.

Between 1965 and 1977 she studied at the San José de Tarbes School, Colegio Santo Ángel, where she completed two college years in just one at Colegio Nuestra Señora del Carmen, and then completed her high school studies at the Liceo Pedro Emilio Coll in Caracas, Venezuela.

She graduated as a Lawyer at Universidad Santa María, and studied post-graduate courses in Administrative Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela. She has also taken courses in Arbitration, Mediation, and Leadership among others in the United States of America.

Ana Díaz worked at the National Electoral Council of Venezuela (until 1997 called the Supreme Electoral Council), the highest Venezuelan electoral body, for a period of 25 years from 1979 to 2004. In 1989 she started working in Directorate of Political Parties. In 1991 she was appointed the Deputy Director General. Then in 2003 she was appointed the Director General of Political Parties.[1][2][3][4][5]

She was forcibly resigned from the National Electoral Council in 2004 when she published an information about electoral fraud on the Venezuelan recall referendum. After that she emigrated to the United States where lives permanently.[6][2][3][4] Ana Díaz states that fraud, falsifications and law violations are routine of Venezuela election system from 2004 to the present.[7][8][3][9]

In October 2017 several Venezuelan advocates and lawyers, among them Blanca Mármol and Ana Díaz, sent an address to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela. They demanded to stop preparations for the upcoming regional elections in the middle of October because of unconstitutional procedure of elections' announcement.[10]

Initially regional elections were announced on 10 December 2017.[11] However, during the 5th session of the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, it was later suggested to move ahead the elections into October 2017.[12] A month before the elections, 15 October 2017 was selected as the date for regional elections.[13]

In recent years Ana Díaz has been giving conferences and forums focused on the areas of democracy and authentic elections in the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Italy, Colombia, Costa Rica and Spain.

Ana Díaz was an independent observer on the Ecuadorian general election in February 2017. She said about falsifications and fraud on the elections. Her opinion were criticized by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador.[2][14][15][16] At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 Ana Díaz commented possible fraud on the elections and possible changes in electoral system in Spain.[9][17][18]

On 24 June 2018 Ana Díaz was appointed as the Chairman of the Government of Asgardia, a newly created "Space Nation". She directs the "Asgardian executive body", setting the priority areas of the supposed Government and organizing its workflow.[19][20]