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In reply to the discussion: Maduro expels 3 US officials amid protest tensions [View all]El_Johns
(1,805 posts)The presidential candidate:
Capriles was born in Caracas, on 11 July 1972. He is the son of Monica Cristina Radonski-Bochenek and Henrique Capriles García.[4][5] Henrique was a successful businessman, and in the 1950s, he helped launch Kraft Foods' entry into Venezuela... His maternal grandfather, Andrés Radonski, was an engineer active in the cinema business in Poland, who after emigrating to Venezuela in 1947, opened his first cinema in Puerto La Cruz.[11][12] The company "Circuito Radonski" merged into Cinex in 1998. Capriles' family currently owns "a number of apartments" on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City.
Capriles studied law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and became a specialist in commerce law in 1994. He also studied tax law at the Central University of Venezuela,[18] and took courses at the IBFD International Tax Academy in Amsterdam, the Centro Interamericano de Administradores Tributarios in Viterbo, Italy, and Columbia University in New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Capriles_Radonski
The leader of the protests:
López was born in Caracas on 29 April 1971... He studied at the Colegio Santiago de León de Caracas and graduated from The Hun (Prep) School of Princeton, in Princeton, NJ, USA. He graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1993[8] , where he received a degree in Sociology. He subsequently attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government where he obtained a Master of Public Policy in 1996..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Lopez
The protest leader's brother in arms:
So, Carlos moved to Caracas and earned a law degree from the Central University of Venezuela in 1992. Soon after, did a Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law also in the UCV... Its high academic performance led him to earn a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him a Master of Laws at Georgetown University in Washington, USA.
Thanks to their efforts and outstanding performance in Georgetown, in 2000 Charles won a scholarship for a Master in Public Administration and a Specialization in International Taxation at the prestigious Harvard University.
Back in Venezuela, Carlos, a young lawyer with extensive academic training, venturing into private and public companies (Purina, KPMG, PDVSA) and legal desks, exercising the practice of law.
http://worldfellows.yale.edu/carlos-vecchio
The whole raft of them have extensive US ties and are linked to the plotters of the attempted overthrow of Chavez.