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Andrés Velásquez
Andrés Velásquez is a Venezuelan politician of the Radical Cause (''La Causa Radical'') party. Formerly the general secretary of the steelworkers union of SIDOR, he became one of the leaders of Radical Cause after the death of its founder, Alfredo Maneiro, in 1982. He was the governor of Bolívar State from 1989 to 1995, and a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2000 to 2006. In the 2000 Venezuelan regional elections he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Anzoátegui state. He was Radical Cause's candidate in the 1993 Venezuelan presidential election, coming fourth with 22% of the vote; Rafael Caldera became president with 30.5%. He had also been Radical Cause's candidate in the 1983 election and 1988 election, gaining less than 1% of the vote. In the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 he ran again for governor of Bolívar state, coming second with 30% of the vote. Velásquez ran again for governor of Bolívar in 2012 and 2017 File:2017 Events Colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Battistini
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish language, Spanish, Portuguese language, Portuguese, and Galician language, Galician name for ''Peter (given name), Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson (name), Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires (other), Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter (name), Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic language, Aramaic ''Kephas'' or ''Aramaic of Jesus#Cephas .28.CE.9A.CE.B7.CF.86.CE.B1.CF.82.29, Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternate archaic spelling is ''Pêro''. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |