Tareck El Aissami
| Tareck El Aissami | |
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| Vice President of Venezuela | |
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Assumed office 4 January 2017 |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Preceded by | Aristóbulo Istúriz |
| Governor of Aragua | |
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In office 2012–2017 |
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| Preceded by | Rafael Isea |
| Minister of Interior and Justice | |
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In office September 2008 – October 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ramón Rodríguez Chacín |
| Succeeded by | Néstor Reverol |
| Personal details | |
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Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah 12 November 1974 El Vigía, Mérida |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Political party | United Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | University of the Andes |
| Profession | politician |
| Religion | Druze |
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah (Arabic: طارق زيدان العيسمي مداح, born 12 November 1974) is a Venezuelan politician who has been Vice President of Venezuela since January 2017. Previously he was Minister of the Interior and Justice from 2008 to 2012 and Governor of Aragua from 2012 to 2017. El Aissami has faced allegations of participating in corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking, all of which he has denied.
El Aissami, one of five children, was born on 12 November 1974 in El Vigía, Mérida, Venezuela, where he spent his childhood. His father, Zaidan El Amin El Aissami, who is also known as Carlos Zaidan, was a Druze immigrant from Jabal al-Druze in Syria, who led a local Iraqi Ba'athist Party in Venezuela and had connections with leftist political movements in the Middle East, supported Hugo Chávez during the February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt and was arrested. Another family member of El Aissami's involved in Ba'athism was his great-uncle, Shibli El Aissami, who was the Assistant Secretary General of the National Command of the Iraqi-dominated Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. El Aissami's mother is of Lebanese origin.
Studying both law and criminology, El Aissami attended the University of the Andes (ULA) in Mérida, Venezuela, a city that "for decades been a haven for guerrilla groups, both domestic and foreign". While there, he was a student of Adán Chávez Frías, the older brother of Hugo Chávez, who was said to have been a mentor to El Aissami.
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