Iliana Josefa Ruzza Terán is a Venezuelan public official who has held different financial positions during the administrations of
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 ...
and later of
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 ...
, including director of the board of directors of the
Central Bank of Venezuela.
Career
According to a review of the Poderopedia portal, since 2009 Ruzza has appeared in different financial positions in several Official Gazettes during the administrations of
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 ...
and later of
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 ...
.
In May 2018, she was appointed vice president of finance of
Petróleos de Venezuela, and in July as director of the board of directors of Corporación Venezolana de Comercio Exterior (CORPOVEX).
In the Official Gazette number 41.434, on 6 July 2018, she was appointed as director of the board of directors of the
Central Bank of Venezuela.
Sanctions
On 17 April 2019, the
United States Treasury Department
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the Treasury, national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an United States federal executive departments, executive department. The departme ...
sanctioned and issued
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 ...
designations against the
Central Bank of Venezuela and Iliana Ruzza to prevent it from being used "as a tool of the Maduro regime, which continues to plunder Venezuelan assets and exploit government institutions to enrich" corrupt officials. Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin
Steven Terner Mnuchin ( ; born December 21, 1962) is an American investment banker and film producer who served as the 77th United States secretary of the treasury as part of the Cabinet of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. Serving for a full pres ...
stated that while the designation disqualifies most of the Central Bank actions taken by the Maduro administration, the United States has taken steps to ensure that debit and credit card transactions could proceed, and that both personal remittances and humanitarian assistance remained intact and could help those suffering "under the repression of the Maduro regime".
See also
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International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
References
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Venezuelan women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people