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Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963) is a Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
n politician. He was appointed Vice President by President Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Ch?vez Fr?as is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Ch?vez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation....
 on January 13, 2002, replacing Adina Bastidas
Adina Bastidas

Adina Bastidas Castillo is a Venezuelan economist active in politics. She was appointed Vice President of Venezuela on December 24, 2000 by Hugo Ch?vez, and served in the post until January 13, 2002, the first woman to hold the job in the country's history....
. As such, he was responsible to both the president and the National Assembly, and for the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the government.

Diosdado Cabello was born in El Furrial, Monagas State.






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Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963) is a Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
n politician. He was appointed Vice President by President Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Ch?vez Fr?as is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Ch?vez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation....
 on January 13, 2002, replacing Adina Bastidas
Adina Bastidas

Adina Bastidas Castillo is a Venezuelan economist active in politics. She was appointed Vice President of Venezuela on December 24, 2000 by Hugo Ch?vez, and served in the post until January 13, 2002, the first woman to hold the job in the country's history....
. As such, he was responsible to both the president and the National Assembly, and for the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the government.

Miranda State Governor Election, 2004 Results
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Diosdado Cabello was born in El Furrial, Monagas State. His background is in engineering: he has an undergraduate degree in systems engineering and a graduate degree in engineering project management from military universities. A former member of the armed forces, he was involved in Chávez's abortive coup d'état
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
 of February 1992. Following Chávez's 1998 electoral victory
Venezuelan presidential election, 1998

In the December 6, 1998 Venezuelan presidential election, Hugo Ch?vez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote in four decades....
, he helped set up the pro-Chávez grassroots civil society organizations known as "Bolivarian Circles
Bolivarian Circles

The Bolivarian Circles are a loosely-knit political and social organization of workers' councils in Venezuela originally begun by President Hugo Ch?vez in 2001.They are named in honor of Sim?n Bol?var, the leader who transformed most of South America from Spain Colonialism outposts to the independent states now in place....
".

Presidency

On April 13, 2002, he took on the duties of the presidency on a temporary basis, replacing Pedro Carmona
Pedro Carmona

Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga is a former Venezuelan trade organization leader who was briefly declared President of Venezuela during an abortive 2002 Venezuelan coup d'?tat attempt against Hugo Ch?vez....
, head of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, as interim president after the coup d'état when Chávez was kept prisoner and was consequently absent from office. Upon taking office, Cabello said that "I, Diosdado Cabello, am assuming the presidency until such time as the president of the republic, Hugo Chávez Frías, appears." A few hours later, Chávez was back in office. This made Cabello's presidency the world's second briefest, after that of Mexican President
President of Mexico

The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
 Pedro Lascuráin
Pedro Lascuráin

Pedro Jos? Domingo de la Calzada Manuel Mar?a Lascur?in Paredes was both Mexico and the world's briefest-ever serving President.He served as Mexico's foreign minister for two terms and was the director of the country's top law school for 16 years....
.

Later career

On April 28, 2002, Cabello was replaced as Vice President by José Vicente Rangel
José Vicente Rangel

Jos? Vicente Rangel Vale is a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for president three times in the 1970s and 1980s, and later supported Hugo Ch?vez, successively becoming foreign minister, defense minister, and vice-president in Ch?vez's government....
. He was named interior minister in May 2002, and then infrastructure minister in January 2003. In October 2004, he was elected to a four-year term as Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
 of Miranda State.

His sister, Glenna Daboin, is a political scientist residing in the U.S., and his brother, José David Cabello, was the Minister of Infrastructure in Venezuela.

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