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Note: The decentralization reforms of 1989 allowed the 20 state governors and the federal district mayor to be elected by popular vote for the first time in Dec 1989. The constitution of 30 Dec 1999 confirmed the 1989 reforms, in the now 23 states, and created a capital district with the same rank as the states, replacing the previous federal district.
Party abbreviations: ABP =
Alianza Bravo Pueblo (Fearless People's Alliance,
social-democratic, anti-Chavez, est.2000);
AD = Acción Democrática (Democratic
Action, social-democratic, est.1941); CD
= Convergencia Democratica (Democratic
Convergence, christian-democrat, split from COPEI,
est.1993); CN = Convergencia Nacional
(National Convergence, center-right, split
from COPEI, est.1993); COPEI = Comité
de Organización Política Electoral Independiente/Partido
Social Cristiano de Venezuela (Political Electoral
Independent Organization Committee/Social
Christian Party of Venezuela, christian-democratic,
est.1946); GPP = Gran Polo Patriótico
(Great Patriotic Pole, PSUV electoral alliance,
est.2011); LCR = La Causa Radical (The
Radical Cause, socalist, split from PCV, est.1971); MAS
= Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Towards Socialism,
center-left, split from PCV,
est.1971); MPJ =
Movimiento Primero Justicia (Justice First
Movement, center-left, est.1992); MUD
= Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (Democratic
Unity Roundtable, anti-PSUV electoral alliance,
est.2008); PODEMOS = Por la Democracia
Social (For Social Democracy, democratic socialist,
est.2003); PCV = Partido Comunista de
Venezuela (Communist Party of Venezuela, communist,
banned 1931-41, 1941-58, est.1931); PPT
= Patria Para Todos (Fatherland for All, socialist,
split from CR, est.1997); PSUV
= Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United
Socialist Party of Venezuela, est.Oct 2007 merger of
pro-Chavez leftist parties incl. MVR); PV
= Proyecto Venezuela (Venezuela Project,
christian-democratic, est.1998); UNT = Un Nuevo
Tiempo (A New Era, center-left, est.1999);
- Former parties:
MIGATO = Movimiento Independiente Ganamos Todos
(Everybody Wins Independent Movement, Monogas state,
José Gregorio Briceño personalist, 1997-2007, merged
into PSUV); MVR = Movimiento V
República (Movement for the Fifth Republic,
authoritarian- leftist, Hugo Chávez personalist,
1997-2007, then PSUV)
Amazonas
![[Amazonas State (Venezuela)]](ve-z.gif)
Adopted 28 Feb 2002
9 Dec
1924
Amazonas Federal Territory
23 Jul
1992
Amazonas State
Governors
1992 -
1995
Edgar Sayago
Murillo
MAS
1995 -
2001
José Bernabé Gutiérrez Parra
(b. 1952)
AD
2001
-
Liborio Guarulla Garrido
(b. 1954)
PPT
Anzoátegui
Adopted 19 May 1999
Governors
1989 -
1994
Ovidio
González
COPEI
1994 -
1998
Dennis Balza
Ron
AD
1998 -
2000
Alexis
Rosas
MVR
2000 -
2004
David Eugenio de Lima Salas
MVR
Nov 2004 - 28 Dec 2012
Tarek Willians Saab Halabi
(b.
1963)
MVR;2007 PSUV
28 Dec 2012
-
Aristóbulo
Istúriz Almeida
(b.
1946) PSUV
Apure
Governors
1989 -
1992
José Gregorio Montilla (1st
time)
AD
1992 -
1995
Marcelo Oquendo
Rojo
AD
1995 -
1999
José Gregorio Montilla (2nd
time)
AD
1999 -
2000
Jesús Aguilarte Gámez (1st time)
(b. 1958 - d. 2012) MVR
2000 -
2004
Gian Luis
Lippa
AD
Nov 2004 - 9 Feb 2011 Jesús
Aguilarte Gámez (2nd time) (s.a.)
MVR/PSUV
9 Feb 2011 -
Ramón Alonso Carrizales Rengifo
(b. 1952)
PSUV
(acting
to 29 Dec 2012)
Aragua
Adopted 20 Oct 2002
Governors
1989 - 23 Jan 1996
Carlos
Tablante
(b. 1954)
MAS
23 Jan 1996 - 1 Dec 2008 Didalco
Bolívar
Graterol
(b. 1955)
MAS;2004 MVR
1 Dec 2008 - 22 Dec 2012
Rafael Eduardo Isea Romero
(b. 1968)
PSUV
22 Dec 2012
-
Tareck
El
Aissami
(b.
1974)
PSUV
Barinas
Adopted 10 Dec 1997
Governors
1989 -
1992
Rafael Rosales Peña (1st time)
(b. 1939)
AD
1992 -
1995
Gehard Cartay Ramíerz
(b. 1950)
COPEI
1995 -
1998
Rafael Rosales Peña (2nd time)
(s.a.)
AD
1998 - 2 Dec 2008
Hugo de los
Reyes
Chávez
(b. 1933)
MVR;2007 PSUV
2 Dec 2008 -
Adán Coromoto Chávez
Frías (b.
1953) PSUV
Bolívar
Adopted 10 Oct 2000
Governors
1989 -
1995
Andrés
Velasquez
(b. 1953)
LCR
1995 -
2000
Jorge Carvajal Morales
(b. 1956)
AD
2000 -
2004
Antonio Rojas
Suárez
MVR
2004 -
Francisco José Rangel Gómez
(b. 1953)
MVR;2007 PSUV
Carabobo
1995 - 12 Mar
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Adopted 12 Mar 2006 |
Governors
1989 -
1995
Henrique Salas
Römer
(b. 1936)
COPEI
1995 -
2004
Henrique Fernando Salas Feo
(b. 1960)
PV
(1st time)
2004 - 4 Dec 2008
Luís Felipe
Acosta
Carlez
(b. 1957)
MVR;2007 PSUV
4 Dec 2008 - 27 Dec 2012
Henrique Fernando Salas Feo
(s.a.)
PV
(2nd
time)
27 Dec 2012
-
Francisco
José Ameliach Orta
(b.
1963)
PSUV
Cojedes
Adopted 3 Apr 1997
Governors
1989 -
1992
José Gerardo
Lozada
AD
1992 -
1995
José Felipe
Machado
COPEI
1995 -
2000
Alberto Galíndez
AD
2000 - 28 Nov 2008
Jhonny Yáñez
Rangel
(b. 1961) MVR;2007
PSUV
28 Nov 2008 - 27 Dec 2012 Teodoro
Bolívar
Caballero (b.
1960) PSUV
27 Dec 2012
-
Érika
del Valle Farías Peña (f)
PSUV
Delta Amacuro
Adopted 14 Oct 2004
1901
Delta Amacuro Federal Territory
8 Mar
1991
Delta Amacuro State
Governors
1992
Sarkis Nemer
1992 -
1994
Emery Mata Millán (1st
time)
COPEI
1994 -
1995
Armando
Salazar
MAS
1995 -
2000
Emery Mata Millán (2nd
time)
AD;1998 COPEI
2000 - 15 Dec 2008
Yelitza Santaella Hernández
(f) (b. 1960)
MAS;2004 MVR
15 Dec 2008 -
Lizeta Hernández Abchi (f)
(b. 1967)
PSUV
Distrito Capital
![[Caracas - Capital District
(Venezuela)]](ve-a.jpg)
Adopted 1989
29 Feb 1864
Distrito Federal de Venezuela
22 Apr 1998
After separation of
Vargas municipality to form Vargas state,
the Distrito Federal comprises only
Libertador municipality.
8 Mar 2000
Distrito Federal replaced by Distrito Capital with the
Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas, which is subordinated
to
the
mayors of the Libertador municipality,
with no district
government as such.
13 Apr 2009
District government
restored.
Governors of Distrito Federal
2 Feb 1989 - Jan 1992
Virgilio Ávila
Vivas
(b. 1941)
AD
13 Jan 1992 - 24 May 1993 Antonio
José Ledezma Díaz
(b. 1955)
AD
May 1993 - 1994
César Rodríguez Berrizbeitía
AD
1994 - 1996
Asdrúbal Aguiar Aranguren
(b. 1949)
CD
1996 - 1998
Abdón Vivas Terán
CD
1998 - 2 Feb 1999
Moisés Orozco
CD
2 Feb 1999 - 2000
Hernán Grüber
Odremán
(b. 1940)
MVR
Mayors of Metropolitan Caracas
30 Jul 2000 - 31 Oct 2004 Alfredo
Peña
(b.
1944)
MVR
31 Oct 2004 - 26 Nov 2008 Juan Alejandro
Barreto Cipriani (b.
1959)
MVR;2007 PSUV
26 Nov 2008 -
Antonio José Ledezma Díaz
(s.a.)
ABP
Mayors of Libertador de Caracas
1996 - 2000
Antonio José Ledezma Díaz
(s.a.)
30 Jul 2000 - 30 Nov 2008 Freddy Alirio Bernal
Rosales (b.
1962)
MVR;2007 PSUV
30 Nov 2008
-
Jorge Rodríguez Gómez
(b. 1965)
PSUV
Chief of government of Distrito Capital
15 Apr 2009
-
Jacqueline
Coromoto Faría Pineda (f)
PSUV
Falcón
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![[Falcon State (Venezuela)]](ve-i-06.gif)
Adopted 4 Aug 2006Governors
1989 -
1995
Aldo Cermeño Garrido Ramón
COPEI
1995 -
2000
José
Curiel
(b. 1937)
COPEI
2000 - 28 Nov 2008
Jesús
Montilla
(b. 1961) MVR;2007
PSUV
28 Nov 2008 -
Stella Lugo de Montilla (f)
(b. 1965)
PSUV
Federal Dependencies
20 Jul
1938
Federal Dependencies (the 72 Caribbean islands not part
of any state) created.
30 Dec
1999
Administration of the Federal Dependencies transferred
to
the federal Ministry of Justice.
Administrators
30 Dec 1999 -
the federal Ministers of
Justice
Francisco de Miranda
27 Oct 2011 Francisco de Miranda Island Territory, split from Federal
Dependencies (includes Los Roques, La Orchila and Las Aves
Islands).
Chief of government
27 Oct 2011 - Armando José Laguna Laguna Mil
Guárico
Govenors
1989 -
1990
Alberto Díaz
Heredia
AD
1990
Rafael Tobias
Delgado
AD
1990 -
1992
Modesto Freites
Piñate
AD
1992 -
1995
José Antonio Malavé
Risso
(b. 1942)
COPEI
1995 -
1998
Rafael Emilio
Silveira
AD
1998 - 8 Dec 2008
Eduardo Manuitt
Carpio
(b. 1950)
MVR;2004 PPT
8 Dec 2008 - 10 Sep 2010 Willian Rafael Lara
(b. 1957 - d. 2010) PSUV
11 Sep 2010 - 11 Dec 2010 Arturo Suárez
PSUV
11 Dec 2010 - 20 Dec 2012
Luis Enrique Gallardo
PSUV
20 Dec 2012
-
Ramón
Rodríguez
Chacín
(b.
1948)
PSUV
Lara
Adopted 8 Dec 2000
Governors
1987 -
1996
José Mariano
Navarro
AD
1996 -
2000
Orlando Fernández
Medina
MAS
2000 - 13 Dec 2008
Luis Reyes
Reyes
MVR;2007 PSUV
13 Dec 2008 -
Henri José Falcón Fuentes
(b. 1961)
PSUV
Mérida
Adopted 5 Nov 1996
Governors
1989 -
1995
Jesús Rondón
Nucete
(b.
1941)
COPEI
1995 -
2000
William Dávila
Barrios
AD
2000 - 12 Dec 2008
Florencio
Porras
MVR;2007 PSUV
12 Dec 2008 - 21 Dec 2012
Marcos Díaz Orellana
(b. 1960)
PSUV
21 Dec 2012
-
Alexis
Ramírez Márquez
(b.
1975)
PSUV
Miranda
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Governors
1989 -
1995
Arnaldo Arocha
Vargas
COPEI
1995 -
2004
Enrique Mendoza D'Ascoli
(b. 1945)
COPEI
2004 - 29 Nov 2008
Diosdado
Cabello
Rondón
(b.
1963)
MVR;2007 PSUV
29 Nov 2008 -
Henrique Capriles Radonski
(b. 1972)
MPJ + MUD
Monagas
Adopted 2002
Governors
1989 -
1995
Guillermo Call (1st
time)
(b. 1940)
AD
1995 - 2000
Luis Eduardo
Martínez
AD
2000
Miguel Gómez
(acting)
MAS
2000 -
2004
Guillermo Call (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
AD
2004 - 28 Dec 2012
José Gregorio "el Gato" Briceño (b.
1965) MIGATO:2007 PSUV
28 Dec 2012
-
Yelitze
Santaella
(f)
(b.
1960) PSUV
Nueva Esparta
Adopted 7 Aug 1998
Governors
1989 –
1995
Morel Rodríguez Ávila (1st
time) (b. 1942)
AD
1995 - 11 Jan 1999
Rafael
Tovar
(b. 1928 - d. 1999) COPEI
1999 -
2000
Irene Lailin Sáez Conde
(f) (b.
1961)
MVR
2000
Eustacio Aguilera (acting)
PCV
2000 -
2004
Alexis Navarro
Rojas
MVR
2004 - 28 Dec 2012
Morel Rodríguez Ávila (2nd time)
(s.a.)
AD
28 Dec 2012
-
Carlos
Mata
Figueroa
(b.
1957) PSUV
Portuguesa
Adopted 1981
Governors
1989 -
1995
Elias D'Onghia
Colaprico
AD
1995 -
2000
Iván
Colmenares
MAS
2000 - 4 Dec 2008
Antonia Muños
(f)
MVR;2007 PSUV
4 Dec 2008 -
Wilmar Castro Soteldo
(b.
1956) PSUV
Sucre
Adopted 24 Nov 1965 and
3 Feb 1996
Governors
1989 -
1992
Eduardo Morales
Gil
AD
1992 -
1998
Ramón Martínez (1st
time)
(b. 1968)
MAS
1998 -
2000
Eloy
Gil
(b. 1947)
AD
2000 - 3 Dec 2008
Ramón
Martínez (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
MAS;2004 MVR
3 Dec 2008 - 28 Dec 2012
Enrique José Maestre
(b.
1968) PSUV
28 Dec 2012
-
Luis
Acuña Cedeño
(b.
1946)
PSUV
Táchira
Adopted 12 Oct 1997
Governors
1989 -
1995
José Francisco Ron
Sandoval
AD
1995 -
1998
Ricardo Méndez
Moreno
AD
1998 -
2000
Sergio Omar
Calderón
(b. 1949)
COPEI
2000 - 7 Jan 2009
Roland Blanco La
Cruz
(b.
1959)
MVR;2007 PSUV
7 Jan 2009 - 21 Dec 2012
César Pérez Vivas
(b. 1957)
COPEI
21 Dec 2012
-
José
Gregorio Vielma
Mora
(b. 1964) PSUV
Trujillo
Adopted 18 Nov 1994
Governors
1989 –
1995
José Méndez
Quijada
AD
1995 -
2000
Luis
González
AD
2000 - 2 Dec 2008
Gilmer
Enrique
Viloria
(b. 1945)
MVR;2007 PSUV
2 Dec 2008 - 21 Dec 2012
Hugo Cesar Cabezas Bracamonte
(b. 1972)
PSUV
21 Dec 2012
-
Henry
Rangel
Silva
(b.
1961)
PSUV
Vargas
Adopted 1997
22 Apr
1998
Vargas Territory, created from part of Distrito Federal.
31 Dec
1998
Vargas State
Governors
1998 -
2000
Alfredo Laya
MAS
2000 - 28 Nov 2008
Antonio
Rodríguez San
Juan (b.
1957)
MVR;2007 PSUV
28 Nov 2008 -
Jorge García Carneiro
(b. 1952)
PSUV
Yaracuy
Adopted 19 Mar 2000
Governors
1989 –
1995
Nelson Suárez
Montiel
COPEI
1995 -
2004
Eduardo Lapi García
CN
2004 - 14 Jun 2008
Carlos
Eduardo Giménez Colmenares (b.
1959)
PODEMOS
14 Jun 2008 - 4 Dec 2008 Álex Sánchez
PSUV
4 Dec 2008 -
Julio Cesar León Heredia
(b. 1966)
PSUV
Zulia
Adopted 23 Jan 1991
Governors
1989 –
1993
Osvaldo Álvarez
Paz
(b. 1943)
COPEI
1993 –
1996
Lolita Aniyar de Castro
(f) (b. 1937)
MAS
1996 -
2000
Francisco Arias Cárdenas (1st time)(b.
1950)
LCR
1998 -
1999
Giovanny Villalobos
(acting for Cárdenas)
1999 -
2000
Germán Valero Chacón
(acting for Cárdenas)
30 Jul 2000 - 1 Dec 2008 Manuel
Rosales
(b.
1952)
UNT
1 Dec 2008 - 20 Dec 2012 Pablo
Martín Pérez Álvarez
(b. 1969)
UNT
20 Dec 2012
-
Francisco
Arias Cárdenas (2nd time)(s.a.)
PSUV
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