Liborio Guarulla

Liborio Guarulla Garrido is an indigenous Venezuelan politician of Baniwa ethnicity, governor of state of Amazonas since 2001. He was born on July 23, 1954 in the Amazonas town of La Isleta, in the Maroa Municipality. He studied at the city of Caracas, in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, graduating in Visual Arts.

Guarulla is married to Judith Campos and has two children, Pumeyawa Guarulla and Liborio Guarulla Umawaly. As a politician, he has been a member of several parties: MAS, La Causa Radical, and lastly Patria Para Todos; with this party he won the governorship of his state, after a challenge was mounted before the Supreme Court in the 2000 election in which another candidate, José Bernabé Gutiérrez of the Acción Democrática party, had been initially declared the winner. After an alleged fraud in the elections of certain areas was demonstrated, the areas in question re-voted, and Guarulla won the election and was proclaimed governor Guarulla for the 2001–2005 period, after which he was re-elected for the 2005–2009 and 2009–2014 periods.

Guarulla worked with other opposition leaders to form a unity candidate to challenge Hugo Chavez for the presidency of Venezuela,^[1] also he separated from the party Patria para todos and form the progresist party MPV. In the event, Chavez beat the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles

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