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Addy Coromoto Valero Velandria (died 22 January 2020) was a Venezuelan politician who served as a deputy in the National Assembly.


Career

Valero served as an
Acción Democrática Democratic Action ( es, Acción Democrática, AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic and centre-left political party established in 1941. The party played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, leading the government durin ...
deputy for the state of Mérida between 1986 and her death in 2020. She was notable for continuing to serve in her role through a cancer diagnosis and for publicly rejecting offers of bribes from the
Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and president of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019. Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade unio ...
government to support
Luis Parra Luis Eduardo Parra Rivero (born 7 July 1978) is a Venezuelan politician who was in a dispute with Juan Guaidó for a year over who was the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela based on a vote on 5 January 2020. The investigative jou ...
's claims to the National Assembly's presidency in return for medical treatment. Acting President Juan Guaidó later reported that Valero had also been ambushed in her home by Maduro's forces the day before the 2020 National Assembly election, being both threatened and offered money and treatment for her vote to go to Parra; she replied "I can die but Venezuela isn't going to die for my vote".


Death

Valero died of uterine cancer on 22 January 2020, which she had been diagnosed with in 2017. Guaidó added in a memorial message: "It won't have been in vain, Addy. Your wise words and your deep respect for the people is something we will not forget."


See also

*
Operación Alacrán Operación Alacrán (English: ''Operation Scorpion''), also known as CLAP affair or PSUV-CLAP faction, is the name given to a corruption plot which was denounced in 2019 by the members of the National Assembly of Venezuela. It would have sought t ...
* Mildred Carrero


References

Date of birth missing 2020 deaths Venezuelan politicians People of the Crisis in Venezuela Deaths from cancer in Venezuela Deaths from uterine cancer Women members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) {{Venezuela-politician-stub