Aloha Joselyn Núñez Gutiérrez (born 25 June 1983) is a Venezuelan politician of the

United Socialist Party of Venezuela The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (, PSUV, ) is a Socialism, socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since 2007. It was formed from a merger of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivar ...

(PSUV). She served as the Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Venezuela between 2012 and 2015 in the

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Biography

Núñez was born on 25 June 1983 in

Maracaibo Maracaibo ( , ; ) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the largest city in Venezuela and is List of cities in Venezuela by population ...

Zulia Zulia State (, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It is also one of t ...

, Venezuela. She studied at the

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. Núñez was a member of the

2017 Constituent National Assembly of Venezuela The Constituent National Assembly (; ANC) was a constituent assembly elected in 2017 to draft a new constitution for Venezuela. Its members were elected in a special 2017 election that was condemned by over forty mostly Latin American and Wester ...

, served as the Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Venezuela between 2012 and 2015 in the

, appointed by

Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, Bolivarian Revolution, revolutionary, and Officer (armed forces), military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until De ...

and ratified by

Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader serving as the 53rd president of Venezuela since 2013. Previously, he was the 24th Vice President of Venezuela, vice president from 2012 to 20 ...

. She also became Vice President of the Indigenous Peoples of the

. Núñez was linked by the Venezuelan and

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press with the former mayor of the Jesús María Semprúm municipality, Keyrineth Fernández, who in January 2022, along with deputies Taina González and Luis Viloria Chirinos, were arrested by police authorities for the crime of drug trafficking.

References

Living people 1983 births United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians People from Maracaibo {{Venezuela-politician-stub