77 Facts About Nicolas Maduro

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Nicolas Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and president of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019.

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Nicolas Maduro was appointed to a number of positions under President Hugo Chavez, serving as President of the National Assembly from 2005 to 2006, as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2013 and as the vice president from 2012 to 2013 under Chavez.

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Nicolas Maduro has ruled Venezuela by decree since 2015 through powers granted to him by the ruling party legislature.

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On 20 May 2018, Presidential elections were called; President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in on 10 January 2019, and the president of the National Assembly, Guaido, was declared interim president on 23 January 2019 by the legislative body.

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Nicolas Maduro Moros was born on 23 November 1962 in Caracas, Venezuela, into a working-class family.

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Nicolas Maduro's father, Nicolas Maduro Garcia, who was a prominent trade union leader, died in a motor vehicle accident on 22 April 1989.

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Nicolas Maduro's mother, Teresa de Jesus Moros, was born in Cucuta, a Colombian border town at the boundary with Venezuela.

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Nicolas Maduro was born into a leftist family and "militant dreamer of the Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo ".

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Nicolas Maduro was raised in Calle 14, a street in Los Jardines, El Valle, a working-class neighborhood on the western outskirts of Caracas.

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Racially, Nicolas Maduro has indicated that he identifies as mestizo, stating that he includes as a part of his mestizaje admixture from the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Africans.

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Nicolas Maduro stated in a 2013 interview that "my grandparents were Jewish, from a Sephardic Moorish background, and converted to Catholicism in Venezuela".

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Nicolas Maduro later married Cilia Flores, a lawyer and politician who replaced Maduro as president of the National Assembly in August 2006, when he resigned to become Minister of Foreign Affairs, becoming the first woman to serve as president of the National Assembly.

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Nicolas Maduro is a fan of John Lennon's music and his campaigns for peace and love.

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Nicolas Maduro has said that he was inspired by the music and counter-culture of 1960s and 70s, mentioning Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin.

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Nicolas Maduro attended a public high school, the Liceo Jose Avalos, in El Valle.

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Nicolas Maduro found employment as a bus driver for many years for the Caracas Metro company.

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Nicolas Maduro began his political career in the 1980s, by becoming an unofficial trade unionist representing the bus drivers of the Caracas Metro system.

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18.

Nicolas Maduro was employed as a bodyguard for Jose Vicente Rangel during Rangel's unsuccessful 1983 presidential campaign.

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At 24 years of age, Nicolas Maduro resided in Havana with other militants of leftist organizations in South America who had moved to Cuba in 1986, attending a one-year course at the Escuela Nacional de Cuadros Julio Antonio Mella, a centre of political education directed by the Union of Young Communists.

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Nicolas Maduro was elected on the MVR ticket to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies in 1998, to the National Constituent Assembly in 1999, and finally to the National Assembly in 2000, at all times representing the Capital District.

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Nicolas Maduro was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006, and served under Chavez in that position until being appointed Vice President of Venezuela in October 2012, after the presidential elections.

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In September 2006, while attempting to travel back to Venezuela via Miami, Florida, Maduro was briefly detained by Homeland Security officers at the John F Kennedy International Airport for around 90 minutes, after paying for three airplane tickets in cash.

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Incident began when Nicolas Maduro tried to pick up an item that had been screened at a security checkpoint at JFK International Airport, security personnel told Nicolas Maduro that he was prohibited from doing so.

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Nicolas Maduro later identified himself as a diplomat from the Venezuela government, but officials still escorted him to a room for conducting secondary screening.

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Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke denied that Nicolas Maduro was mistreated, saying that there was not evidence of abnormalities during the screening process.

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Nicolas Maduro said the incident prevented him from traveling home on the same day.

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When he was informed of the incident, President Chavez said Nicolas Maduro's detention was retaliation for Chavez' 2006 speech at the UN and stated that the authorities detained Nicolas Maduro over his links to the Venezuelan failed coup in 1992, a charge that President Chavez denied.

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Bolivarian officials predicted that following Chavez's death, Nicolas Maduro would have political difficulties and that Venezuela would experience instability.

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29.

Chavez's endorsement of Nicolas Maduro sidelined Diosdado Cabello, a former vice president and powerful Socialist Party official with ties to the armed forces, who had been widely considered a top candidate to be Chavez's successor.

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30.

Nicolas Maduro is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot.

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31.

Nicolas Maduro appointed Jorge Arreaza to take his place as vice president.

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32.

Nicolas Maduro was unanimously chosen as the Socialist Party's candidate in the election.

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In May 2017, Nicolas Maduro proposed the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, which was later held on 30 July 2017 despite wide international condemnation.

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The United States sanctioned Nicolas Maduro following the election, labeling him as a "dictator", preventing him from entering the United States.

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Nicolas Maduro's presidency has coincided with a decline in Venezuela's socioeconomic status, with crime, inflation, poverty and hunger increasing; analysts have attributed Venezuela's decline to both Chavez and Maduro's economic policies, while Maduro has blamed speculation and economic warfare waged by his political opponents.

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36.

On 4 August 2018, at least two drones armed with explosives detonated in the area where Nicolas Maduro was delivering an address to military officers in Venezuela.

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Nicolas Maduro is very much focused on consolidating his power among his own peers in Chavismo and much less on exercising or implementing a strategic vision for the country.

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Nicolas Maduro has a strategic partnership with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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The National Assembly invoked a state of emergency, and some nations removed their embassies from Venezuela, with Colombia, and the United States saying Nicolas Maduro was converting Venezuela into a de facto dictatorship.

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The United States Department of State issued a communication stating that Nicolas Maduro had used unconstitutional means and a "sham electoral system" to maintain an unlawful presidency that is not recognized by most of Venezuela's neighbors.

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Nicolas Maduro disputed Guaido's claim and broke off diplomatic ties with several nations who recognized Guaido's claim.

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Nicolas Maduro has been accused of authoritarian leadership since he took office in 2013.

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Univision announcer Jorge Ramos described his detention following a live interview of Nicolas Maduro, saying that if Nicolas Maduro does not release the seized video of the interview, "he is behaving exactly like a dictator".

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Tachira state's governor Jose Vielma Mora assured that Nicolas Maduro was born in El Palotal sector of San Antonio del Tachira and that he had relatives that live in the towns of Capacho and Rubio.

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In June 2013, two months after assuming the presidency, Nicolas Maduro claimed in a press conference in Rome that he was born in Caracas, in Los Chaguaramos, in San Pedro Parish.

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In October 2013 Tibisay Lucena, head of the National Electoral Council, assured in the Globovision TV show Vladimir a la 1 that Nicolas Maduro was born in La Candelaria Parish in Caracas, showing copies of the registry presentation book of all the newborns the day when allegedly Nicolas Maduro was born.

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In 2016 a group of Venezuelans asked the National Assembly to investigate whether Nicolas Maduro was Colombian in an open letter addressed to the National Assembly president Henry Ramos Allup that justified the request by the "reasonable doubts there are around the true origins of Maduro, because, to date, he has refused to show his birth certificate".

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The document mentions that the current president of the CNE incurs in "a serious error, and even an irresponsibility, when she affirms that Nicolas Maduro's nationality 'is not a motto of the National Electoral Council" and the signatories refer to the four different moments in which different politicians have awarded four different places of birth as official.

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Deputy Dennis Fernandez has headed a special commission that investigates the origins of the president and has declared that "Nicolas Maduro's mother is a Colombian citizen" and that the Venezuelan head of State would be Colombian.

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50.

The researcher, historian and former deputy Walter Marquez declared months after the presidential elections that Nicolas Maduro's mother was born in Colombia and not in Rubio, Tachira.

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Marquez has declared that Nicolas Maduro "was born in Bogota, according to the verbal testimonies of people who knew him as a child in Colombia and the documentary research we did" and what "there are more than 10 witnesses that corroborate this information, five of them live in Bogota".

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On 28 October 2016, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice issued a ruling stating that according to "incontrovertible" proofs it has "absolute certainty" that Nicolas Maduro was born in Caracas, in the parish of La Candelaria, known then as the Libertador Department of the Federal District, on 23 November 1962.

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On 11 January 2018, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela in exile decreed the nullity of the 2013 presidential elections after lawyer Enrique Aristeguita Gramcko presented evidence about the presumed non-existence of ineligibility conditions of Nicolas Maduro to be elected and to hold the office of the presidency.

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Aristeguieta argued in the appeal that, under Article 96, Section B, of the Political Constitution of Colombia, Nicolas Maduro Moros, even in the unproven case of having been born in Venezuela, is "Colombian by birth" because he is the son of a Colombian mother and by having resided in that territory during his youth.

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Nicolas Maduro continued the practice of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, of denouncing alleged conspiracies against him or his government; in a period of fifteen months following his election, dozens of conspiracies, some supposedly linked to assassination and coup attempts, were reported by Nicolas Maduro's government.

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Observers say that Nicolas Maduro uses such conspiracy theories as a strategy to distract Venezuelans from the root causes of problems facing his government.

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In early 2015, the Nicolas Maduro government accused the United States of attempting to overthrow him.

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In 2016, Nicolas Maduro again claimed that the United States was attempting to assist the opposition with a coup attempt.

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On 17 May 2016 in a national speech, Nicolas Maduro called OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro "a traitor" and stated that he worked for the CIA.

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Maduro's son, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, stated during the 5th Constituent Assembly of Venezuela session that if the United States were to attack Venezuela, "the rifles would arrive in New York, Mr Trump, we would arrive and take the White House".

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In March 2019 The Wall Street Journal reported in an article entitled "Nicolas Maduro loses grip on Venezuela's poor, a vital source of his power" that barrios are turning against Nicolas Maduro and that "many blame government brutality for the shift".

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Report by the human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch reported in September 2019 that the poor communities in Venezuela no longer in support of Nicolas Maduro's government have witnessed arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial executions at the hands of Venezuelan police unit.

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On 16 September 2021, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela released its second report on the country's situation, concluding that the independence of the Venezuelan justice system under Nicolas Maduro has been deeply eroded, to the extent of playing an important role in aiding state repression and perpetuating state impunity for human rights violations.

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Diosdado Cabello, a senior official in Nicolas Maduro's government, was quoted as saying the arrests were a "kidnapping" by the United States.

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65.

Nicolas Maduro is accused of having ties with various illicit organizations including Los Zetas and Cartel of the Suns.

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Nicolas Maduro's nephews were freed in October 2022 as a prisoner swap for seven jailed Americans.

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Nicolas Maduro accused Ortega of working with the United States to damage his government.

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68.

In September 2018, Nicolas Maduro ate at a Nusret Gokce's, a luxurious Istanbul restaurant.

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69.

The State Department alleges that Nicolas Maduro expelled authorized foreign companies from the mining sector to allow officials to exploit Venezuela's resources for their own gain, using unregulated miners under the control of Venezuela's armed forces.

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Two months later, the Canadian government sanctioned members of the Nicolas Maduro government, including Nicolas Maduro, preventing Canadian nationals from participating in property and financial deals with him due to the rupture of Venezuela's constitutional order.

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Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin stating "Nicolas Maduro is a dictator who disregards the will of the Venezuelan people".

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On 29 March 2018, Nicolas Maduro was sanctioned by the Panamanian government for his alleged involvement with "money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction".

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Wall Street Journal reported that barrios are turning against Nicolas Maduro in "a shift born of economic misery and police violence".

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In March and April 2015, Nicolas Maduro saw a small increase in approval after initiating a campaign of anti-US rhetoric following the sanctioning of seven officials accused by the United States of participating in human rights violations.

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Nicolas Maduro won the second presidential election after the death of Hugo Chavez, with 50.

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However, the Supreme Court of Venezuela ruled that under Venezuela's Constitution, Nicolas Maduro is the legitimate president and was invested as such by the Venezuelan National Assembly .

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Nicolas Maduro was declared as the winner of the 2018 election with 67.

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