Carlos Andrés Pérez

Carlos Andrés Pérez ( born October 27, 1922 in Rubio, Táchira, † December 25, 2010 in Miami, Florida) was a Venezuelan politician and President of his country from 1974 to 1979 and 1989 to 1993.

Career

Carlos Andrés Pérez was under Rómulo Betancourt (AD) Venezuelan Interior Minister ( 1960-1964 ).

Pérez in 1980 was president of the Latin American Association of Human Rights and cooperated with Julius Nyerere in the Südsüdkommission. He was an active member of the Socialist International, which he chaired, under the presidency of Willy Brandt as a deputy in three terms.

In the first term as President of Venezuela (1974-1979), he used the increased income since January 1976 Venezuela nationalized oil industry to a distribution policy.

In his second term (1989-1993) he relented to the IMF and established a neo-liberal policies. He justified this by lower revenues from the oil sector and declining world prices and a consequent increased foreign debt. Subsidies and price controls on public services have been largely abolished, which resulted in the same year riots, known as the Caracazo. The repressive control by the National Guard and Army called for 1,000 to 3,000 lives. It was this to be a poor uprising against the deteriorating living conditions due to economic blunders and the resulting corruption. The social protests intensified. Because of corruption allegations Carlos Andres Perez in 1993 the office was removed. After his ouster, he fled to the United States.

In September 2009, the Venezuelan Attorney General applied for an international arrest warrant at Interpol.

On December 25, 2010, he died in Florida of a heart attack. Subsequently, a dispute erupted between his widow, from whom he had never divorced, and his life companion. While the former, Blanca Rodríguez, a funeral in Venezuela called, wanted second consists, Cecilia Matos, Pérez be buried in the USA. On 4 October 2011 the corpse Pérez ' to Venezuela was transferred.