Lilian Tintori

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Lilian Tintori in March 2016

Lilian Adriana Tintori Parra (born May 5, 1978 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan human rights activist , as well as a former athlete and presenter .

She gained international media and political attention after she became a leading political activist in Venezuela during the protests in Venezuela in 2014 after the politically motivated arrest of her husband, the then leading opposition politician Leopoldo López .

Family and education

Lilian Tintori, who was born in Caracas, studied on the one hand at the Merici Academy. On the other hand, she studied pre-school education with a minor in political communication and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello . She married Leopoldo López in May 2007, with whom she has a daughter (* 2009) and a son (* 2013).

Career

In 2001 she made her first appearance on Venezuelan television as part of her participation in the reality TV show Robinson: La Gran Aventura . The competition program, which had high audience ratings, helped her to find moderation jobs for the broadcasters RCTV and Televen , as well as radio appearances for La Mega , Hot 94 and Ateneo 100.7 . Eventually, Tintori's face was seen on billboards in Venezuela.

In 2003 she won the Venezuelan championship in kitesurfing and founded the Prokite Foundation , which set itself the goal of supporting less privileged kite surfers financially through donations in kind and kite equipment.

Tintori is an ambassador for Socieven Association, an association that wants to raise awareness of the need for help of people who are deaf and dumb .

She worked as part of a campaign against "violence against women" with the BFC Foundation (foundation), as well as with the human rights foundation Young Foundation.

Political activism

Lilian Tintori at the protests in Venezuela in 2014

After the arrest of the opposition politician Leopoldo López during the Venezuelan protests in 2014, she told the Washington Post that she was not pursuing a political career. She told The Atlantic that she was a human rights activist, Venezuelan, mother and herself also a victim and was therefore close to the (many other) victims of her country. In an interview with The Atlantic, she tells of the inhumane conditions of her husband, who is smeared with feces and subjected to further torture in prison. She was also examined in her private parts when her husband visited the prison .

She met with then US Vice President Joe Biden , then Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Pope Francis to secure the release of her husband and other political prisoners from captivity in Venezuela. She also met the then heads of state of Chile , Sebastian Pinera and Colombia , Andres Pastrana .

Nicolás Maduro described her campaign as terrorism that should be neutralized.

On August 5, 2017, her husband's 2015 prison sentence of 13 years was commuted to house arrest.

On August 29, 2017, the Venezuelan police found Bolivar dollars in Tintoris car worth 10,000 and the government imposed a travel ban against them. She then announced that the money was from her and that the state was trying to prevent her from meeting with politicians in Europe. On September 2, 2017, she was not allowed to travel to Europe to meet Emmanuel Macron , who subsequently assured her support.

After her husband Leopoldo López was freed from house arrest in April 2019 by soldiers from the Sebin domestic intelligence agency who were critical of the regime as a result of the developments in Venezuela , she went on April 30, together with López and their children, first as a guest to the Chilean embassy and from there in the Spanish embassy.

Awards

  • 2003 - Venezuelan kitesurfing champion
  • 2014 - Honor for the service for freedom and democracy (Awarded at the sixth World Conference of Political Communication in Mexico: " For your fight for human rights and democracy in Venezuela and Latin America" .)
  • 2017 - Palabra Prize , from the Spanish Association of Journalists' Associations, in recognition of their work for democracy and peace.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Human rights groups, US condemn prison sentence for Venezuelan politician. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Peter Wilson: Women in white protest violence in Venezuela. In: USA Today . February 26, 2014, accessed February 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Lilian Tintori-Venezuelan Politician Leopoldo Lopez's Wife. In: Daily Entertainment News. February 18, 2014, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ ¿Quién es Leopoldo López? relacionesinternacionales.media, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ El Universal (Caracas) , 20 September 2009, Leopoldo López presenta a su hija Manuela por twitter
  6. ↑ Jeffrey Taylor: The accidental face of Venezuela's opposition. In: The Atlantic. April 27, 2015, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Jeffrey Tayler: The Accidental Face of Venezuela's Opposition. In: The Atlantic . April 27, 2015, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Harriet Alexander: Venezuelan prison authorities strip-search both wife and mother of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. In: The Daily Telegraph . January 19, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  9. ^ Lilian Tintori: I'll Keep Fighting for Venezuelans' Rights, Despite the Regime's Attacks on My Family. In: The Huffington Post . February 10, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Confiscan a Lilian Tintori 200 millones de bolívares que llevaba en su coche. In: Público Caracas. August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Tintori Revelo por qué tenía Bs 200 millones en efectivo. In: EFE. September 2, 2017, S. El Nacional , accessed October 25, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Lilian Tintori no podrá reunirse con Rajoy tras ser imputada por el dinero hallado en su coche. In: eldiario.es . September 2, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Activist Tintori says she is barred from leaving Venezuela . In: Reuters . September 2, 2017 ( reuters.com [accessed May 2, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Venezuela's opposition leader flees to the Spanish embassy. In: time online. 1st May 2019.
  15. ^ Cumbre Mundial de Comunicación Política pide liberación de Leopoldo López. (No longer available online.) El Nacional , December 7, 2014, archived from the original on December 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Lilian Tintori ganadora de la primera edición del Premio Palabra. fape.es, accessed November 24, 2017 (European Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Tintori, Lilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tintori Parra, Lilian Adriana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas