Ricardo Sánchez Mujica

Ricardo Sánchez Mujica
Ministry of People's Power of University Education
In office
27 August 2024 – 18 March 2026
PresidentNicolás Maduro (2024–2026)
Delcy Rodríguez (2026)
Preceded bySandra Oblitas
Succeeded byAna María Sanjuán
Member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly
In office
July 30, 2017 (2017-07-30) – 18 December 2020
Alternate deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela of (Miranda)
In office
5 January 2016 – July 30, 2017 (2017-07-30)
In office
5 January 2011 – 24 March 2014
Deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela
In office
24 March 2014 – 5 January 2016
Preceded byMaría Corina Machado
ConstituencyMiranda
Personal details
Born (1983-07-16) July 16, 1983
PartyUNT (2008–2012)
Alianza para el Cambio (2013–2015)
PSUV (2015–present)

Ricardo Sánchez Mujica (born 1983[1]) is a Venezuelan politician and former student leader.

Career

He was elected as María Corina Machado's substitute legislator in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election, representing Un Nuevo Tiempo.[2] Sánchez was elected President of the Federación de Centros Universitarios (FCU) at the Central University of Venezuela in 2007 and re-elected in 2008, and was one of the most prominent student leaders during 2007 protests against the television channel RCTV shutdown, and the 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum.[1][2] In 2008 Sánchez was named by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as youth ambassador for the promotion of peace in the Americas.[1] Sánchez has suffered several attacks by unknown people, including an incendiary device thrown at his car in 2006, and an assault in 2009.[1]

In November 2012 Sánchez was one of three opposition substitute legislators who broke away from the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática opposition coalition.[3]

In 2015 he was a candidate for deputy to the National Assembly for the pro-government Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) and joined the ranks of Chavism, and would be later elected as member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly.

References

  1. ^ a b c d (in Spanish) Tal Cual, 27 March 2013, RICARDO EN 10 TIEMPOS Archived 2014-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b (in Spanish) Un Nuevo Tiempo, 21 May 2010, Ricardo Sánchez Archived 2020-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Peñaloza, Pedro Pablo (2022-03-18). "Tres diputados rompieron con la Mesa de la Unidad" [Three deputies broke with the Unity Roundtable]. El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 2022-11-05.