Ernesto Villegas
| Ernesto Villegas | |
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| 2nd Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District | |
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In office 13 October 2014 – 26 May 2015 |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Preceded by | Jacqueline Faría |
| Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Dugarte |
| Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas | |
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Assumed office December 2013 |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Preceded by | Francisco de Asís Sesto Novas |
| Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information | |
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In office October 13, 2012 – August 4, 2013 |
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| President |
Hugo Chávez (2012–2013) Nicolas Maduro (2013) |
| Preceded by | Andrés Izarra |
| Succeeded by | Delcy Rodríguez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 29, 1970 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Political party | United Socialist Party of Venezuela |
| Spouse(s) | Klara Aguilar Vásquez |
| Alma mater | Central University of Venezuela |
Ernesto Emilio Villegas Poljak is a journalist, politician, and writer from Venezuela.
Ernesto Villegas was born in Caracas in 1970. He is the youngest of eight children, two of them, Mario and Vladimir, Alice, Clara, Esperanza, Tatiana and Asia.
He is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist, confined to the Amazon jungle during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 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 Jewish and a Communist social activist and photographer born in Zagreb, Croatia, formerly Yugoslavia.
Villegas graduated journalist from Central University of Venezuela. He worked in media such as newspapers Economía Hoy, El Nuevo País, El Universal and Quinto Día, two and programs En Confianza, Despertó Venezuela and Toda Venezuela of Venezolana de Televisión. He was editor of the newspaper Ciudad Caracas.
He was the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information from October 2012 until August 2013. Later, he is appointed Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas since December 2013. From October 2014 to May 2015, he was Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District.
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