Erika Farías
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Erika del Valle Farías Peña (born 30 October 1972) is a Venezuelan politician. She served as Minister for the Office of the Presidency three times as Minister for Urban Agriculture, Minister for the Communes and deputy to the 2017 National Constituent Assembly. She is a militant and member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and is currently the mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality of Caracas.
Biography
Farías is a graduate of the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University. National Director of the Francisco de Miranda Front (Venezuelan youth political organization, dedicated to social work). She was Minister of Popular Power for Food and Minister of Popular Power of the Office of the Venezuelan Presidency during the mandate of President Hugo Chávez,{{cite news|title=Erika del Valle Farías designada Ministra del Poder Popular del Despacho de la Presidencia|url=http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n104655.html|access-date=28 December 2016|date=2007}} deputy of the National Assembly for Cojedes in 2010. On 16 December 2012, she won the governor elections for the Cojedes State, with 75,383 votes.{{cite news|title=Érika Farías fue juramentada como Gobernadora del estado Cojedes|url=http://www.diariolavoz.net/2012/12/27/erika-farias-fue-juramentada-como-gobernadora-del-estado-cojedes/|access-date=26 February 2015|date=27 December 2012}}
She was appointed Minister of People's Power for Communes and Social Movements by Nicolás Maduro in 2016.{{cite news|title=Estos son los cambios del gabinete ministerial efectuados por el presidente Nicolás Maduro|url=http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/328170/el-presidente-nicolas-maduro-anuncia-renovacion-del-gabinete-ministerial/|access-date=4 January 2017|date=4 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105174300/http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/328170/el-presidente-nicolas-maduro-anuncia-renovacion-del-gabinete-ministerial/|archive-date=5 January 2017}}
= Sanctions =
On 9 August 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury placed sanctions on Farías for her position in the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela.{{cite web|title=Treasury Sanctions Eight Individuals Involved in Venezuela's Illegitimate Constituent Assembly|url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/sm0145.aspx|website=United States Department of the Treasury|access-date=9 August 2017|language=en-us|date=9 August 2017}}
Responding to the May 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Canada sanctioned 14 Venezuelans on 30 May 2018, including Farías,{{cite news |url= https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-to-impose-sanctions-on-more-venezuelan-officials/4416647.html |work= VOA News |title= Canada to impose sanctions on more Venezuelan officials |date = 30 May 2018 |publisher= Reuters |access-date= 4 April 2019}} stating that the "economic, political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has continued to worsen as it moves ever closer to full dictatorship".{{cite journal |url= http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2018/2018-06-13/html/sor-dors114-eng.html |title= Regulations amending the Special Economic Measures (Venezuela) Regulations: SOR/2018-114 |journal= Canada Gazette, Part II |volume= 152 |issue= 12 |date= 30 May 2018 |access-date= 4 April 2019}} The government said the 2018 presidential election was "illegitimate and anti-democratic", and sanctioned Farías, along with 13 other members of the ANC and TSJ.{{cite news |url= https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-canada-impone-sanciones-mujer-maduro-y-otros-trece-cargos-regimen-venezuela-201805301850_noticia.html |work= ABC International |language= es |date= 30 May 2018 |access-date= 4 April 2019 |title= Canadá impone sanciones a la mujer de Maduro y otros trece cargos del régimen de Venezuela |trans-title= Canada imposes sanctions on Maduro's wife and thirteen other charges of the Venezuelan regime |author= Trillo, Manuel}}
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Category:21st-century Venezuelan women politicians
Category:Women mayors of places in Venezuela
Category:United Socialist Party of Venezuela politicians
Category:People of the Crisis in Venezuela
Category:Members of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 2017
Category:Nicolás Maduro ministers
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