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. 1 2 3 4 (in Spanish) Tal Cual, 27 March 2013, RICARDO EN 10 TIEMPOS Archived 2014-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 (in Spanish) Un Nuevo Tiempo, 21 May 2010, Ricardo Sánchez
  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.


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