Henry Rangel Silva
Henry Rangel Silva (* 1961 ) is a Venezuelan military man and politician . In 2012 he was Venezuela's Defense Minister for a short time in the Hugo Chavez cabinet .
Life
Rangel Silva was the commander of the Strategic Command of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana).
Rangel Silva was also the chief of the Venezuelan Political Police (DISIP).
He is said to have a relationship of trust with Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) . According to the Colombian magazine Semana , he has been a personal friend of Timoleón Jiménez , the former leader of the guerrilla organization FARC-EP, since March 2005 . The magazine assumes Rangel Silva was the liaison between the FARC and the Venezuelan government.
In 2008, the United States Department of the Treasury initiated the freeze on all of its accounts. He is said to have supported the FARC in drug trafficking. At the end of 2012, he had to relinquish his position as Minister of Defense to the then Commander of the Navy, Admiral Diego Molero Bellavia .
Web links
- Treasury Targets Venezuelan Government Officials Supporting the FARC. In: United States Department of the Treasury homepage. December 9, 2008, accessed January 17, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Josef Oehrlein: Farc ready to talk. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 16, 2012, accessed January 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Venezuela's Chávez replaces controversial defense minister , on elpais.com, November 1, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Silva, Henry Rangel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silva, Henry de Jesús Rangel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan military man and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |