Pompeyo Ezequiel Márquez Millán (28 April 1922 – 21 June 2017) was a Venezuelan politician and former marxist guerrilla member in the 1960s. He was one of the founders of

Movimiento al Socialismo The Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ( es, Movimiento al Socialismo–Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos, abbreviated MAS-IPSP, or simply MAS, punning on ''más'', Spanish for ...

(MAS), and part of the opposition to the late Venezuelan president

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 the 1980s he was a member of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE). In 1989, he was appointed by

Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as '' El Gocho'' (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 M ...

as a member of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF) chaired by

Ramón J. Velásquez Ramón or Ramon may refer to: People Given name *Ramon (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian footballer *Ramón (footballer, born 1990), Brazilian footballer *Ramón (singer), Spanish singer who represented Spain in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest * ...

. He was Minister of Borders of the Government of Rafael Caldera from 1994 through 1999. He died on 21 June 2017, at the age of 95.

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