Willian Lara
Willian Lara ( born 1957 in El Socorro, Guárico, Venezuela; † 10 September 2010 in Río Uverito, Venezuela ) was a Venezuelan politician.
Biography
After schooling, he studied Social Communication at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and subsequently completed a postgraduate course in political science at the Universidad Simón Bolívar. Later he worked as a professor of political science at the Universidad Simón Bolívar.
His political career began as a member of the founded by Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez Movimiento Quinta República 1997 ( MVR). For this he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress in 1998 and was also Chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee. After the establishment of the Constituent National Assembly, he was elected in 1999 as a representative of the MVR appointed member and chairman of the Committee on Political Administration and Elections. He was also director of the National Organization MVR.
In 2000, he ran for the governorship of the state of Miranda, but was defeated by incumbent and candidate of the Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente ( COPEI ), Enrique Mendoza. In the same year, however, he was elected a member of the newly formed National Assembly and re-elected in 2005. Between 2000 and 2002 he was also the first president of the National Assembly.
After President Hugo Chavez had called him in 2006 to the Minister of Information and Communications in the Cabinet, he resigned his seat in the National Assembly. The ministerial office he held until his replacement by Andrés Izarra.
In November 2008 he was elected as the candidate of the newly founded by Chavez in March 2007 as a successor to the MVR United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( PSUV ) to the Governor of the State of Guárico.
Lara was born on 10 September 2010 in a car accident on the Troncal 2 Highway near the state capital of Guárico, San Juan de los Morros, died.
On 11 September 2010 he was awarded by President Chávez posthumously with the Grand Cross of the Order del Libertador. Successor as governor of Guárica was the former President of the Federal Legislative Council Arturo Suárez.