Manuel Rosales

Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero ( born December 12, 1952, in Santa Bárbara del Zulia ) is a Venezuelan politician. He was governor of the western state of Zulia, Un Nuevo Tiempo party chairman from 2006, opposition leader of his country.

Rosales worked as an elementary school teacher. From 1996 to 2000 he was mayor of the capital Zulias, Maracaibo, and later became governor. In November 2008 he was re-elected mayor of Maracaibo.

In 2002 he participated in the coup of Pedro Carmona against the President Hugo Chávez.

The country's opposition, agreed in August 2006 to Rosales as unity opposition candidate. He stepped on 3 December 2006 against Hugo Chávez in the presidential election and subject to that much. Of people who supported Chávez, he said publicly on television, 33% they are parasites who lived by the government. He later denied the statement.

In March 2009, he was accused of " illicit enrichment". The former Minister of Planning of the Government Caldera, Teodoro Petkoff, accused Chávez of wanting to weaken the opposition with the help of the judiciary. Rosales spoke of a political conspiracy against his person. On March 30, Rosales went into hiding and a few days later in Peru back to where he was granted political asylum.

In September 2009, an interrogation report of the Colombian Prosecutor became public in which a Colombian contract killer Manuel Rosales brought with plans for the assassination of Hugo Chavez in conjunction. Rosales have commanded during a secret meeting in 1999 with Colombian paramilitaries $ 25 million for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.