Teodoro Petkoff
Teodoro Petkoff
Teodoro Petkoff Malecis a Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. As Minister of Planning he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's adoption of neoliberal economic policies in the mid-1990s. He has been a prominent critic of President Hugo Chávez, and was a candidate to run against him in the December 2006 presidential elections, but dropped out of the race...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 January 1932
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Poverty in Venezuela is worse than ever. I didn't discover poverty because Chavez pointed it out to me.