Nicolas Maduro
Preses o Venezuela
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 Aprile 2013 Interim: 5 Mairch – 19 Aprile 2013
Vice Preses	Jorge Arreaza
Precedit bi	Hugo Chavez
Vice Preses o Venezuela
In office 13 October 2012 ? 5 Mairch 2013
Preses	Hugo Chavez
Precedit bi	Elias Jaua
Succeedit bi	Jorge Arreaza
Meenister o Foreign Affairs
In office 9 August 2006 ? 15 Januar 2013
Preses	Hugo Chavez
Precedit bi	Ali Rodriguez Araque
Succeedit bi	Elias Jaua
Speaker o the Naitional Assembly
In office Januar 2005 ? 7 August 2006
Precedit bi	Francisco Ameliach
Succeedit bi	Cilia Flores
Member o the Naitional Assembly
In office August 2000 ? 7 August 2006
Member o the Naitional Constituent Assembly
In office August 1999 ? August 2000
Member o the Chamber o Deputies
In office Januar 1999 ? August 1999
Personal details
Born	Nicolas Maduro Moros ( 1962-11-23 ) 23 November 1962 (age 61) Caracas , Venezuela
Poleetical pairty	Fift Republic Movement (afore 2007) Unitit Socialist Pairty (2007?present)
Spoose(s)	Cilia Flores
Religion	Roman Catholicism an Sai Hinduism [1]
Signatur

Nicolas Maduro Moros ( Spaingie pronunciation:  [niko?laz ma?ðu?o ?mo?os] ; born 23 November 1962 ) is a Venezuelan politeecian who is the current Preses o Venezuela . He wis previously the Vice Preses o Venezuela an the Meenister o Foreign Affairs unner Preses Hugo Chavez .

An umwhile bus driver , Maduro rose tae acome a trade union leader , afore bein electit tae the Naitional Assembly in 2000. He wis appyntit tae a nummer o poseetions within the Venezuelan Govrenment unner Chavez, ultimately bein made Foreign Meenister in 2006. He wis describit durin this time as the "maist capable admeenistrator an politeecian o Chavez's inner circle". ^[2]

Efter Chavez's daith wis annoonced on 5 Mairch 2013, Maduro assumed the pouers an responsibilities o the Preses. A special election wis held on 14 Aprile o the same year tae elect a new Preses, which he wan bi a ticht margin as the candidate o the Unitit Socialist Pairty ; he wis formally inaugurated on 19 Aprile. ^[3]

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Freemit airtins [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

• Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores Archived 1998-12-07 at the Wayback Machine (Venezuelan Foreign Meenistry) (in Spaingie)
• Biography bi CIDOB Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie)