Rafael Eduardo Isea Romero (born 18 February 1968,
Maracay[ Aragua State]
Rafael Isea
accessed 11 June 2012) is a
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
n politician, and Governor of
Aragua State from 2008 to 2012. A graduate of the Venezuelan Military Academy (1989), he participated in
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 ...
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February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt.
[ From 2001 to 2004 he was Venezuela's representative to the ]Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribb ...
.[ In the 2005 parliamentary elections he was elected to the National Assembly of Venezuela. In 2007 he was named deputy Minister of Finance, and in 2008, Minister of Finance of Venezuela, before being elected Governor of Aragua in the 2008 regional elections, beating PODEMOS' Henry Rosales.][
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Political persecution
He moved to the United States in September 2013, after he became the target of some government authorities involved in the trafficking of drugs and money laundering to the United States. After this Mr. El Aissami accused Mr. Isea of corruption and personally conducted an investigation and presented fabricated evidence. The Attorney General at the time, Luisa Ortega, allowed Mr. El Aissami as governor to manage a team of prosecutors for this case, which is illegal. Without a guarantee of an impartial, fair, and legal trial, Mr. Isea decided to remain in the US, until the government changes and have the opportunity to demonstrate his innocence. His family has also been targeted by the Venezuelan government, when in June 2015, SEBIN agents detained Rosario Romero and Raiza Isea, mother and sister of Rafael Isea, as measured retaliation ordered by Tareck El Aissami, governor of Aragua state at that time, trying to force Rafael Isea to return to Venezuela to surrender to the Chavista justice. It is important to note that Mr. Tareck El Aissami has been indicted in the United States on charges of drug trafficking and links with terrorist organizations and has been included in the ICE Most Wanted List.
Rafael Isea lives in the United States with his wife and children. He works as an Amazon
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* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...
courier.Captan a Rafael Isea trabajando como conductor de cargas de Amazon
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References
External links
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Official blog
Living people
1968 births
Governors of Aragua
People from Maracay
Fifth Republic Movement politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela)
Finance ministers of Venezuela
Government ministers of Venezuela
United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians
People of the 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts
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