Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October, 1922 – 25 December, 2010), best known as
CAP and often referred to as
El Gocho (due to his Andean origins), was a
Venezuelan politician,
President of
Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His
first presidency was well-known as the
Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to enormous income from petroleum exportation. However, his
second period saw a continuation of the economic crisis of the 1980s, and saw a series of social crises, a popular revolt (denominated
Caracazo) and
two coup attempts in 1992. In May 1993 he became the first Venezuelan president to be forced out of the office by the
Supreme Court, for the misappropriation of 250 million
bolívars belonging to a presidential discretionary fund. After more than two years of house arrest, Pérez was released in September 1996.
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