Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez (born 18 May 1969) is a Venezuelan politician serving as the

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since 2018. She was also Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information of

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from 2013 to 2014,

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from 2014 to 2017 and President of the

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from 4 August 2017 to 14 June 2018. She is the target of multiple

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Political career

She held several posts during the course of the Chavez administration: as International Affairs Director in the Ministry of Energy and Mines, in 2003; as Vice-minister for European Affairs in 2005; serving from February–August 2006 as the Minister for Presidential Affairs and the following year as General Coordinator to the Vice-President of Venezuela, both of which roles she held while her brother occupied the office of Vice President of the Republic. She was the Minister for Presidential Affairs in 2006. Similarly, she was Vice Minister for Europe at the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Relations. She also served as the General Coordinator to the Vice President of Venezuela. According to a profile published in the daily ''

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'', Rodriguez pursued a concentration in labor law in Paris, France, taught at UCV and was a member of the Venezuelan Association of Labor Lawyers. Since 2016, Rodriguez has been an outspoken defender of Venezuelan government domestic actions in the face of calls from

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, to suspend Venezuelan membership in the organization for violating the OAS Democratic Charter. On 21 June 2017, Rodriguez left her post to run for the Constituent National Assembly. President Maduro accepted her resignation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was succeeded by Samuel Moncada.

Vice President

On 14 June 2018, President Maduro named Rodríguez to be Vice President of Venezuela, succeeding

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. She also became the head official of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela's

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, as it is dependent on the office of the vice presidency.

Sanctions

Rodríguez has been sanctioned by several countries and is banned from entering neighboring Colombia. The Colombian government maintains a list of people banned from entering Colombia or subject to expulsion; as of January 2019, the list had 200 people with a "close relationship and support for the Nicolás Maduro regime". On 22 September 2017,

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sanctioned Rodríguez due to rupture of Venezuela's constitutional order. Shortly after being named Vice President of Venezuela, Rodríguez was one of eleven officials sanctioned by the

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on 25 June 2018, with her assets frozen and a travel ban issued against her after she "undermined democracy and the rule of law in Venezuela." The Mexican Senate froze the assets of officials of the Maduro administration, including Delcy Rodríguez, and prohibited them from entering Mexico on 20 April 2018. Also a
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sanctioned Rodríguez on 25 September 2018 for "corruption and humanitarian issues." In January 2020, despite the entry ban imposed by the

since 2018, Rodríguez met Spain's minister

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(

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) in Madrid–Barajas Airport.

Personal life

Rodríguez is the daughter of , who was the founder of the Socialist League of Venezuela. He was arrested in 1976 as a suspect in the kidnapping by guerrillas of , vice-president of the Owens-Illinois Venezuela, and tortured to death by the police. Her brother, Jorge Jesús Rodríguez, served as Mayor of Caracas, as well as vice president. Delcy was in a relationship with

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co-founder

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prior to his death in a plane crash in April 2008.

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