Vladimir Villegas
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Vladimir Villegas | |
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| President of Venezolana de Televisión | |
| In office November 2003 – December 2004 | |
| Venezuela Ambassador to Brazil | |
| In office 2002–? | |
| Venezuela Ambassador to Mexico | |
| In office May 2005 – November 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 December 1961 |
| Party | Avanzada Progresista |
| Education | Central University of Venezuela |
Vladimir Villegas Poljak (born 11 December 1961[1]) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. He was President of Venezolana de Televisión from late 2003 to December 2004. He has written regularly for El Nacional and El Mundo, with a weekly column in El Nacional. He is a founder of the Avanzada Progresista party,[2] having previously been a supporter of Patria Para Todos.
Villegas is the son of Cruz Villegas, head union communist,[3] confined to the Amazon jungle during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and former president of the United Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions. His mother, Maja Poljak was a Jewish Communist social activist and photographer born in Zagreb, Croatia, formerly Yugoslavia.
He is the brother of the journalist and politician Ernesto Villegas, Minister of Communication and Information since October 2012.[4][5]
Education
While attending the Central University of Venezuela, Villegas was a leader of the Communist Party of Venezuela, and he began his journalistic career at the Party's Tribuna Popular.[4] Later he became close to La Causa Radical and took a seat in the Chamber of Deputies.[6]