Luis María Piñerúa Ordaz (20 April 1924 - 8 February 2001 Rosa Aguilera Meneses, '' El Universal'', 24 February 2001
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1978 Venezuelan general election General elections were held in Venezuela on 3 December 1978. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p555 The presidential elections were won by Luis Herrera Campins of Copei, who received 46.6% of the vote ...

, losing to COPEI's Luis Herrera Campins. He held the post of Minister of Home Affairs of Venezuela in both the

First Presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez The first presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez (from 1974 to 1979) coincided with the oil boom of 1974, which saw Venezuela's economy prosper. Carlos Andrés Pérez launched a program of rapid modernization. His first presidency also saw the nationa ...

and

Second Presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds eac ...

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