Vladimir Villegas Poljak (born 11 December 1961 Daniel Suárez/DLATáchira, ''

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n journalist and politician. He was President of

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from late 2003 to December 2004. Venezuelanalysis.com, 3 April 2013
Venezuela's Globovisión to be Sold but will Maintain Political Line
/ref> He has written regularly for '' El Nacional'' and '' El Mundo'', with a weekly column in ''El Nacional''. He is a founder of the Avanzada Progresista party, having previously been a supporter of

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Early life

Villegas is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist, confined to the

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during the dictatorship of

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, and former president of the United Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions. His mother, Maja Poljak was

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Communist social activist and photographer born in

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, formerly

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. He is the brother of the journalist and politician Ernesto Villegas, Minister of Communication and Information since October 2012.

Education

While attending the

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, Villegas was a leader of the

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, and he began his journalistic career at the Party's ''Tribuna Popular''. Later he became close to La Causa Radical and took a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

Political career

In the

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he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for La Causa Radical, representing the

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, and was re-elected in the 1998 elections. He was a member of the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela which drew up the 1999

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. He was the Venezuelan Ambassador to Brazil in 2002, and Ambassador to Mexico from May to November 2005, until the Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis saw him recalled to Caracas. From November 2003 to December 2004 he was the president of the state-run

. In 2006 he was named deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania; '' Últimas Noticias'', 2 May 2013
Perfil , Conozca a Vladimir Villegas, el nuevo director de Globovisión
'' El Nacional Web'', 2 May 2013
Además de periodista, diputado y miembro de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, ocupó cargos de cancillería
he resigned in 2007 over disagreements regarding the 2007 constitutional referendum. On 2 May 2013, Villegas was offered the position of being the director of

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beside Leopoldo Castillo. Villegas ultimately declined the position citing "differences" with the newly created board of directors.

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