Henry de Jesús Rangel Silva (born 1961) is the current governor of

Trujillo, Venezuela Trujillo is the capital city of Trujillo State in Venezuela. About 40,000 people live in this city, located in El Valle de Los Mukas. History Founded by one of the "Conquistadores de America", Diego García de Paredes (1506 - 1563), son of ...

. A military general and former Minister of Defense, noticias24.com, 17 January 2012
Perfil: Henry Rangel Silva, el nuevo ministro de la Defensa
Rangel Silva was previously the head of Operational Strategic Command of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, head of the

DISIP DISIP (General Sectoral Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services) was an intelligence and counter-intelligence agency inside and outside of Venezuela between 1969 and 2009 when SEBIN was created by former President Hugo Chavez. DISIP was ...

(from 2005) and Director of

CANTV CANTV () is the state-run telephone and internet service provider in Venezuela. It was one of the first telephone service enterprises in the country, founded in 1930. The largest telecommunications provider in Venezuela, it was privatized in 19 ...

(from 2009). Rangel Silva took part in the coup attempt of February 1992 together with

Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republ ...

. In 2008, the U.S.

Office of Foreign Assets Control The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U.S. Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy ob ...

(OFAC) sanctioned three current or former Venezuelan government officials, saying there was evidence they had materially helped the

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army ( es, link=no, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian confl ...

(FARC) in the

illegal drug trade The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through ...

. The order "freezes any assets the designated entities and individuals may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions involving those assets". Rangel,

Hugo Carvajal Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, nicknamed ''El Pollo'' ("The Chicken") (born 1960), is a Venezuelan diplomat and retired general. He was the head of the military intelligence in Venezuela during Hugo Chávez's government, from July 2004 to Dec ...

, former director of Venezuela's military intelligence (DGIM); and

Ramón Rodríguez Chacín Ramón Rodríguez Chacín (born November 9, 1951) is a Venezuelan politician. A retired naval officer, he was Minister of the Interior and Justice in 2002, and again in 2008. He took part in the November 1992 coup attempt. Early years Rodríguez ...

, former Minister of the Interior, were sanctioned. In November 2010, Rangel declared that the military forces are "married to the political, socialist project" led by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.Military Forces 'married' to Hugo Chávez's socialist project
/ref> Then he added that the arrival of a government different from Chávez would be unacceptable: "The hypothesis (of an opposition government) is difficult, it would mean to sell of the country, people won't accept that, the Armed Forces won't and the people less." Shortly after, Rangel was promoted to

General-in-Chief General in Chief has been a military rank or title in various armed forces around the world. France In France, general-in-chief (french: général en chef) was first an informal title for the lieutenant-general commanding over others lieutenant- ...

, the highest rank obtainable in the Venezuelan military. In October 2012, Rangel Silva was chosen as the

PSUV The United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left Socialism, socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since ...

's candidate in

Trujillo state Trujillo State ( es, link=no, Estado Trujillo, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Its capital is Trujillo but the largest city is Valera. The state is divided into 20 municipalities and 93 parishes. Trujillo State covers a total surface ...

after the then-current governor, Hugo Cabezas, announced he would not seek re-election. In December, he was elected governor of

by 82.30% of the vote, in Venezuela's regional elections of 2012. He was re-elected in the 2017 regional elections by 59.75% of the vote.

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US Treasury Department accuses Rangel Silva of helping the FARC in drug dealing
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