Yolanda Tortolero Martínez (died 18 May 2021) was a Venezuelan physician and politician, alternate deputy of the

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for the

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and the

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party.

Career

Tortolero was a physician by profession and worked at the

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Hospital for several years, a town in the

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where she was from. She was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for Carabobo for the period 2016–2021 in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the

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(MUD) and the

(UNT in Spanish) party. In 2020 she was one of the 100 deputies to vote in person in favor of reelecting

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as president of the Assembly in the National Assembly Delegated Committee election. In 2021 she was hospitalized in San Felipe,

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; her party, colleagues and inhabitants of Bejuma asked for financial assistance for her medical attention. Although her death had originally been reported by 14 May, the regional executive board of UNT in Carabobo informed that by that date the parliamentarian was still alive. After fighting against

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for about three weeks, Tortolero died on 18 May from complications derived from the disease.

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Yolanda Tortolero Martinez
- National Assembly Venezuela {{DEFAULTSORT:Tortolero, Yolanda Year of birth missing 20th-century births 2021 deaths Venezuelan women physicians 21st-century Venezuelan women politicians 21st-century Venezuelan politicians Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela People from San Felipe, Venezuela

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