Ana Mercedes Aponte Merchan is a Venezuelan politician, deputy of the

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Career

Vera has served as secretary of the Education Workers Union of Vargas (Sitravargas). She was elected as alternate deputy in the

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for the 2016–2021 term in the 2015 parliamentary elections. On 16 November 16, 2020, security officers raided her house in Vargas state. Deputy Sandra Flores de Garzón declared that the officers broke the locks of the house and threw the door to the ground, and Mercedes Aponte said that the officers did not have a

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for the raid, arguing that they were orders from

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 ...

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