Julio León (Venezuelan politician)

Julio León Heredia

Governor of Yaracuy
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Preceded by	Álex Sánchez (interim, after Carlos E. Giménez was impeached)
Personal details
Born	23 October 1966
Political party	PSUV

Julio León Heredia (23 October 1966^[1] - ) is a Venezuelan politician and the current governor of Yaracuy (since 2008). He was the PSUV candidate for the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008, and won comfortably. He succeeded Álex Sánchez, an interim governor appointed after Carlos E. Giménez was impeached in June 2008 by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.^[2]

León's career in the Venezuelan air force was cut short when León participated in the November 1992 coup attempt against Carlos Andrés Pérez.^[1]

References

1 2 (Spanish) PSUV.org.ve, Aquí está Julio León
↑ (Spanish) VTV, 14 June 2008, Nombran a Álex Sánchez, como sustituto de ex gobernador de Yaracuy

Current governors of states of Venezuela

Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla
Anzoátegui: Nelson Moreno
Apure: Ramón Carrizales
Aragua: Tareck El Aissami
Barinas: Adán Chávez
Bolívar: Francisco Rangel

Carabobo: Francisco Ameliach
Cojedes: Érika Farías
Delta Amacuro: Lizeta Hernández
Falcón: Stella Lugo
Guárico: Ramón Rodríguez Chacín
Lara: Henri Falcón

Mérida: Alexis Ramírez
Miranda: Henrique Capriles Radonski
Monagas: Yelitza Santaella
Nueva Esparta: Carlos Mata Figueroa
Portuguesa: Reinaldo Castañeda
Sucre: Luis Acuña

Táchira: José Gregorio Vielma Mora
Trujillo: Henry Rangel Silva
Vargas: Jorge García Carneiro
Yaracuy: Julio León
Zulia: Francisco Arias Cárdenas
Capital District: Daniel Aponte (Head of Government)

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