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11 Facts About Miguel Pizarro

1.

Miguel Alejandro Pizarro Rodriguez was born on February 17,1988 and is a Venezuelan politician in the National Assembly who represents Petare in Caracas.

2.

Miguel Pizarro was part of a punk band called Kolumpio when he was a student.

3.

Miguel Pizarro's father was of the political left militia from the 1970s, and was a trade union activist and at one point imprisoned in Cuartel San Carlos.

4.

Miguel Pizarro's mother was one of the founders of the Committee in Defense of Human Rights for political prisoners, and was secretary to the fraction of left parties of the Senate.

5.

In 2007, Miguel Pizarro started and participated in the protests of the Movimiento Estudiantil, with other future politicians like Freddy Guevara, Juan Requesens, Juan Guaido, Yon Goicoechea, Eduardo Massieu and Manuela Bolivar when he was a student leader at the Central University of Venezuela, protesting the closure of the television channel RCTV.

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Miguel Pizarro played an active part in the campaign against the intended Chavez-implemented 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum.

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Miguel Pizarro was elected as a deputy in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election at age 21, supported by the Democratic Unity Roundtable, when he was a member of the Progressive Advance party.

8.

Miguel Pizarro represented the second district of Tachira as the alternate representative for deputy Gabino Paz.

9.

Miguel Pizarro has strongly criticized the inefficiency of the National Assembly in resolving the problems it acknowledges as affecting the Venezuelan population.

10.

Miguel Pizarro has worked for the cause of human rights for many years, and especially in the case of those detained in the protests in Venezuela that started in 2014, working with their families to seek a just trial for them.

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In November 2016, after Venezuela received Universal Periodic Review documentation denouncing its ignorance towards Human Rights, Miguel Pizarro was the deputy who took on the leadership role to disseminate responsibilities to appropriate commissions.