Carlos Andrés Pérez

**Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez** (October 27, 1922 – December 25, 2010) was a president of Venezuela.  He was born in 1922, served twice as president in the early 1990s, and died in 2010.

## Biography

Pérez was born on 27 October 1922 in Rubio, Venezuela.  He went to school in Caracas, where he studied law.  In 1948, he married Blanca Rodríguez, one of his cousins.  During the same year, because he opposed a coup d'état, he was put in prison, but got out and left Venezuela.  In 1958, Venezuala became a democracy, and Pérez became a part of the government led by Rómulo Betancourt.

In 1973, Pérez became president of Venezuala. He left office in 1979, and soon after, Venezuala's economy went through a low period. In 1989, Pérez became president again. Soon after, he made government spending much smaller and made prices of goods like gasoline higher.  There were many riots because of this.

In 1992, there were two coups that tried but failed to remove Pérez from being president. In 1993, though, he was impeached because he was thought to have paid for bodyguards for Violeta Chamorro, who was a former president of Nicaragua.  He went to prison after this for ten weeks.  After prison he was put in house arrest for two years.

After Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuala in 1998, Pérez went to the Dominican Republic. In 2003, he moved again, this time to the United States. While he was in the US, people in Venezuala tried to force him to return because he was wanted in connection with the riots his laws caused in 1989. He also married Cecilia Matos during this time.

He died on 25 December 2010 in Miami at the age of 88.  María Francia Pérez, his daughter, said that he had died of a heart attack.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Carlos Andrés Pérez
- **image**: Carlos Andrés Pérez - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1989.jpg
- **office**: List of Presidents of Venezuela, President of the Republic of Venezuela
- **term start**: 12 March 1974
- **term end**: 12 March 1979
- **predecessor**: Rafael Caldera
- **successor**: Luis Herrera Campins
- **term start2**: 2 February 1989
- **term end2**: 20 May 1993
- **predecessor2**: Jaime Lusinchi
- **successor2**: Octavio Lepage
- **office3**: Senate (Venezuela), Senator of the Republic of Venezuela
<small>For Life</small>
- **term start3**: 12 February 1999
- **term end3**: 28 March 2000
- **term start4**: 12 March 1974
- **term end4**: 2 February 1994
- **office5**: Socialist International, Vice President of the Socialist International
- **president5**: Willy Brandt
- **term start5**: 30 January 1976
- **term end5**: 30 January 1992
- **office6**: Minister of Interior and Justice (Venezuela), Minister of Home Affairs of Venezuela
- **president6**: Rómulo Betancourt
- **term start6**: 12 March 1962
- **term end6**: 12 August 1963
- **predecessor6**: Luis Augusto Dubuc
- **successor6**: Manuel Mantilla
- **office7**: Chamber of Deputies (Venezuela), Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Venezuela
- **constituency7**: Táchira
- **term start7**: 5 January 1964
- **term end7**: 5 January 1968
- **constituency8**: Táchira
- **term start8**: 5 January 1958
- **term end8**: 2 February 1960
- **constituency9**: Táchira
- **term start9**: 5 January 1947
- **term end9**: 24 November 1948
- **birth place**: Rubio, Venezuela, Rubio, Táchira, Venezuela
- **death place**: Miami, Florida, United States
- **party**: Democratic Action, Acción Democrática
- **spouse**: Blanca Rodriguez
Cecilia Matos
- **children**: Sonia, Thais, Martha, Carlos Manuel, María de Los Ángeles, Carolina, María Francia y Cecilia Victoria.
- **signature**: Carlos Andrés Pérez Signature.svg