Henrique Salas Römer is a Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n capitalist economist (a graduate of Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

), politically active in Venezuela since 1983.

Biography

He was the governor of Carabobo

Carabobo

Carabobo State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, located in the north of the country, about two hours by car from Caracas. The capital city of this state is Valencia, which is also the country's main industrial center. The state's area is 4,650 km² and had an estimated population of...

 (1990–1996), being succeeded by his son, Henrique Salas Feo

Henrique Salas Feo

Henrique Fernando Salas Feo is a Venezuelan politician, President of the centre-right party Project Venezuela, and the current governor of Carabobo State. He is the son of the former Carabobo Governor and 1998 presidential candidate Henrique Salas Römer...

. He was a candidate in the Venezuelan presidential election, 1998

Venezuelan presidential election, 1998

In the Venezuelan presidential election of 1998, Hugo Chávez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote in four decades...

 as the candidate of Project Venezuela

Project Venezuela

Project Venezuela is a political party in Venezuela.At the legislative elections, 30 July 2000, the party won 7 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly of Venezuela. The legislative elections of 2006 were boycotted by the party...

, a national party developing out of Salas Römer's regional Project Carabobo party. Four days before the election, the two main political parties in Venezuela at the time, COPEI

COPEI

Copei – Social Christian Party of Venezuela is a third way political party in Venezuela. The name stands for Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente...

 and Democratic Action

Democratic Action

Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...

, switched their support to Salas Römer. Despite this Salas Römer came in second to Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...

, with 39% of the vote to Chávez' 57%.

External links

• "El empresario.(Internacional)", Reforma (México D.F., México), December 6, 1998