Liborio Guarulla Garrido is an
indigenous Venezuelan
politician. He is of
Baniwa
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ethnicity
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. He served as
governor of
Amazonas state from 2001 to 2017.
Early life
Guarulla was born on July 23, 1954, in the Amazonas town of La Isleta, in the
Maroa Municipality. He studied at the
Universidad Central de Venezuela
The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in L ...
in
Caracas
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, graduating with a degree in
Visual Arts.
Career
He joined several political parties:
MAS
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Film and TV
* Más y Menos, fictional superhero characters, from the Teen Titans animated television series
* Más (Breaking Bad), "Más" (''Breaking Bad''), a season three episode of ''Breaking Bad''
Songs
* Más ( ...
,
La Causa Radical
The Radical Cause ( es, La Causa Radical, LCR), stylized as La Causa Я, is a minor left-wing political party in Venezuela, and today part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Nicolás Maduro.
At its peak in the early 1990s, the party came ...
, and
Patria Para Todos
Fatherland for All (''Patria Para Todos'', PPT) is a leftist political party in Venezuela. It was founded on September 27, 1997 by members of The Radical Cause party led by Pablo Medina, Aristóbulo Istúriz and Alí Rodríguez Araque. In 199 ...
; with the latter, he won the governorship of his state. A challenge was mounted before the
Supreme Court
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in the
2000 election in which José Bernabé Gutiérrez of the
Acción Democrática
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The party played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, leading the government durin ...
party was initially declared the winner. After an alleged fraud was demonstrated, the areas in question re-voted, and Guarulla won for the 2001–2005 period.
He was re-elected in 2005
and 2010. Guarulla worked with other opposition leaders to form a unity candidate to challenge
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 ...
for the
presidency.
He separated from the party
Patria para todos
Fatherland for All (''Patria Para Todos'', PPT) is a leftist political party in Venezuela. It was founded on September 27, 1997 by members of The Radical Cause party led by Pablo Medina, Aristóbulo Istúriz and Alí Rodríguez Araque. In 199 ...
and formed the
progressivist
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party MPV.
[ In the election, Chavez beat opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. In the same year, Guarulla was again re-elected in Amazonas.
In 2014, Guarulla and another opposition-aligned governor Henri Falcón participated in the dialogue with the government amid the protests.
In 2019, Guarulla joined A New Era party.
]
Dabucuri-Curse
In the context of the 2017 Venezuelan protests
The 2017 Venezuelan protests were a series of protests occurring throughout Venezuela. Protests began in January 2017 after the arrest of multiple opposition leaders and the cancellation of dialogue between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's g ...
, which started when the Supreme Tribunal of Justice closed the parliament, Guarulla was barred from office for 15 years. In consequence of that decision, Guarulla cursed those responsible.
«I will invoke the power of my ancestors and my shamans so that the curse of the Dabukuri falls upon those who have tried to do us evil, I assure you that you won’t die without torment. I assure you that before you die you will begin to suffer and that your soul will wander through the darkest and most pestilent places before you can, somehow, close your eyes».Puerto Ayacucho
Puerto Ayacucho () is the capital and largest city of Amazonas State in Venezuela. Puerto Ayacucho is located across the Orinoco River from the Colombian village of Casuarito.
The city was founded to facilitate the transport of goods past the ...
, the capital of Amazonas.[
]
Personal life
Guarulla is married to Judith Campos and has two children, Pumeyawa Guarulla and Liborio Guarulla Umawaly.
References
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Living people
1954 births
Governors of Amazonas (Venezuelan state)
Venezuelan politicians
Radical Cause politicians
Movement for Socialism (Venezuela) politicians
Fatherland for All politicians
A New Era politicians
Central University of Venezuela alumni
Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 1999