Ernesto Villegas

Ernesto Villegas
2nd Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District
In office
13 October 2014  26 May 2015
President Nicolás Maduro
Preceded by Jacqueline Faría
Succeeded by Juan Carlos Dugarte
Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas
Assumed office
December 2013
President Nicolás Maduro
Preceded by Francisco de Asís Sesto Novas
Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information
In office
October 13, 2012  August 4, 2013
President Hugo Chávez (2012–2013)
Nicolas Maduro (2013)
Preceded by Andrés Izarra
Succeeded by Delcy Rodríguez
Personal details
Born (1970-04-29) April 29, 1970
Caracas, Venezuela
Political party United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Spouse(s) Klara Aguilar Vásquez
Alma mater Central University of Venezuela

Ernesto Emilio Villegas Poljak is a journalist, politician, and writer from Venezuela.

Biography

Ernesto Villegas was born in Caracas in 1970. He is the youngest of eight children, two of them, Mario and Vladimir, Alice, Clara, Esperanza, Tatiana and Asia.[1]

He is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist,[2] 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 and a Communist social activist born in Zagreb, Croatia, formerly Yugoslavia.[1]

Villegas graduated journalist from Central University of Venezuela. He worked in media such as newspapers Economía Hoy, El Nuevo País, El Universal and Quinto Día, two and programs En Confianza, Despertó Venezuela and Toda Venezuela of Venezolana de Televisión. He was editor of the newspaper Ciudad Caracas.[3]

He was the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information from October 2012 until August 2013. Later, he is appointed Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas since December 2013. From October 2014 to May 2015, he was Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Ernesto Villegas: Un ministro con buen humor pero muy serio". Colarebo. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  2. "Cruz Villegas: "Un hombre de firmes principios y gran sensibilidad social"". Noticias24. January 16, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  3. "Conozca el perfil de los seis nuevos ministros designados por el presidente Chávez". Globovision. October 13, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2014.


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