María Verónica Rengifo is a Venezuelan politician, currently an alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Aragua state.
María Verónica Rengifo | |
|---|---|
| Constituency | Aragua state. |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Occupation | Politician |
Career edit
She was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for Aragua state for the 2016–2021 term in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). In 2017 she joined the newly created parliamentary fraction 16 de Julio.[1] Rengifo participated in the national protests that year against the government of Nicolás Maduro, and on 19 June she was wounded in the leg by three pellets during a protest in El Paraíso, Caracas, fired from a checkpoint of the Bolivarian National Guard.[2][3]
Personal life edit
During the 2017 nationwide protests, Rengifo's mother and brother were also injured by buckshot fired by Aragua state police officers.[4]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ León, Ibis (2017-11-14). "13 diputados conforman nueva fracción de oposición en la Asamblea Nacional". Efecto Cocuyo. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "Cuerpos de seguridad del Estado son los principales agresores de la Asamblea Naciona l". Transparencia Venezuela (in Spanish). 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ "Memoria y Cuenta de Gestión Parlamentaria del diputado Williams Dávila 2017" (PDF). Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ "7 detenidos y 20 heridos por protestas en Aragua". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
Further reading edit
- "Verónica Rengifo: Nuestro derecho es revocar, nuestro deber es defender la Constitución". 2016-10-19.
- Salazar, Abraham (2016-10-27). "Pasan de 147 los detenidos durante la #TomaDeVenezuela".
- "[VIDEO] GNB retuvo y reprimió a estudiantes en el túnel La Cabrera". 2017-06-17.
- Barbara, Escalona (10 September 2020). "Aragua revivió impactante desbordamiento de río El Limón, tras 33 años". Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- "Inundaciones afectan de nuevo a La Candelaria de Aragua este #14Sep". 2020-09-14.
- "Guaidó decreta "Estado de Alarma" en Aragua tras inundaciones en "El Limón"". 2020-09-17.
- Díaz, Gregoria (2020-10-22). "Denuncian al alcalde de Linares Alcántara de disparar contra vivienda de dirigente opositora".
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