Ernesto Emilio Villegas Poljak is a journalist, politician, and writer from
Venezuela
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Biography
Ernesto Villegas was born in Caracas in 1970. He is the youngest of eight children, two of them, Mario and Vladimir, Alice, Clara, Esperanza, Tatiana and Asia.
He is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist, confined to the
Amazon jungle
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during the dictatorship of
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
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, and former president of the United Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions. His mother, Maja Poljak was
Jewish
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and a Communist social activist and photographer born in
Zagreb
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Croatia
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, formerly
Yugoslavia
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Villegas graduated as a journalist from Central University of Venezuela. He had worked in media such as newspapers ''Economía Hoy'', ''El Nuevo País'', '' El Universal'' and ''Quinto Día'', ''En Confianza, Despertó Venezuela'' and ''Toda Venezuela'' of ]Venezolana de Televisión
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. He was the editor of the newspaper ''Ciudad Caracas''.
Controversy
Sanctions
In November 2017, Ernesto Villegas was sanctioned by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control
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after the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election.weapons of mass destruction
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See also
* Bolivarian propaganda
* The Commission of Propaganda, Agitation and Communication of the PSUV
References
Living people
Politicians from Caracas
United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians
Venezuelan people of Croatian-Jewish descent
1970 births
People of the Crisis in Venezuela
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