Isaías Rodríguez

Isaías Rodríguez
Isaías Rodríguez
Vice President of Venezuela
	In office; 29 January 2000 – 24 December 2000
President	Hugo Chávez
Preceded by	Post reestablished ; (Title last held by Antonio Leocadio Guzmán)
Succeeded by	Adina Bastidas
Prosecutor General of Venezuela
	In office; 26 December 2000 – 13 December 2007
Preceded by	Javier Elechiguerra Naranjo
Succeeded by	Luisa Ortega Díaz
Personal details
Born	Julián Isaías Rodríguez Díaz; 16 December 1942 (age 81); PSUV
Occupation	Lawyer

Julián Isaías Rodríguez Díaz (born 16 December 1942)

vice president of Venezuela on 29 January 2000 by Hugo Chávez

, and served in the post until 26 December 2000.

Career

Rodríguez Díaz earned his law degree and specialized in labor law at the

Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo, which he participated in until 1981.^[1]

In 1990 he served as Attorney Aragua.

In the

Venezuelan Senate, representing the state of Aragua.^[1]

On 29 January 2000, he was appointed as the first executive vice president of Venezuela. Eleven months later, on December 26, with the majority vote of the National Assembly, he was appointed as Attorney General of the Republic, a position he held until November 2007.[1]

He was appointed Second Vice-President of the

2017 Constituent National Assembly on 4 August 2017 but he is replaced by Elvis Amoroso a month later.^[2]

Sanctions

In November 2017, Isaías Rodríguez was sanctioned by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control after the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election.^[3]

In March 2018, Panama sanctioned 55 public officials, including Isaías Rodríguez.^[4]

During 2018 until 2019 he worked as the Venezuelan Ambassador in Italy. During the

2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Rodríguez expressed concern for US sanctions on Venezuela.^[5] According to him, these sanctions prevent him to pay his workers and the Embassy debt has risen to about 9 million euros.^[5] Rodríguez resigned to his job as ambassador in May due to the tight budget of the embassy.^[5] In his resignation letter published on Twitter, he expressed support for "Maduro's battle". He writes that he leaves "without money" and that Italian banks have "closed its doors" to him.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e (in Spanish) VicePresidency of Venezuela, Julián Isaías Rodríguez Díaz Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 June 2012
^ "Sacaron a Isaías Rodríguez de la directiva de la ANC". El Nacional (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
^ "Treasury sanctions ten Venezuelan government officials" (Press release). U.S. Department of the Treasury. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ "Los 55 funcionarios sancionados por Panamá por 'blanqueo de capitales'". El Nacional (in Spanish). 30 March 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2019. Also at Panama Economic and Finance Ministry Archived 2019-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
^
ISSN 0261-3077
. Retrieved 21 May 2019.

Political offices
Preceded by Restored Title last held by José Vicente Gómez	Vice President of Venezuela 2000–2000	Succeeded by Adina Bastidas

[VP-1] (in Spanish) VicePresidency of Venezuela, Julián Isaías Rodríguez Díaz Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 June 2012

[2] "Sacaron a Isaías Rodríguez de la directiva de la ANC". El Nacional (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.

[Treas9Nov2017-3] "Treasury sanctions ten Venezuelan government officials" (Press release). U.S. Department of the Treasury. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

[PanamaSanc-4] "Los 55 funcionarios sancionados por Panamá por 'blanqueo de capitales'". El Nacional (in Spanish). 30 March 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2019. Also at Panama Economic and Finance Ministry Archived 2019-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

[guardiandemission-5] 
ISSN 0261-3077
. Retrieved 21 May 2019.

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