Enrique Mendoza (born 11 August 1945) is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

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. From 1989 until 1996, Mendoza was the mayor of Sucre Municipality, Miranda of

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; he was governor of

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from 1995 to 2004, being re-elected in 1998 and 2000. In 2004 Mendoza was chosen as head of the Coordinadora Democrática. The

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mentioned Mendoza in its 2008 Human Rights report as denial of a fair public trial.

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