Lina Ron
Lina Ron | |
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| Born | Ninette Lina Ron Pereira September 23, 1959 |
| Died | March 5, 2011 (aged 51) |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Parent(s) | Manuel Ron Chira and Herminia Ron Pereira |
Ninette Lina Ron Pereira (September 23, 1959 – March 5, 2011) was a Venezuelan political leader. She was the founder and president of the Venezuelan Popular Unity party, one of the parties which supported President Hugo Chávez. Ron was a member of the National Assembly,[1] and ran one of the Bolivarian Circles.[2] She died of a heart attack in 2011[3]at the age of 51 and was buried in the South Cemetery of Plaza Andrés Eloy Blanco.[4][5] President Chávez extolled her as "a true soldier of the people" and a "complete revolutionary."[4]
Life and controversial figure
Lina Ron was the fourth child of Manuel Ron Chira, a political leader, and Herminia Pereira. She and her six brothers plus eight cousins were raised by Lina Ron's mother.
She moved to Caracas at the age of 27 and worked in a shopping mall before becoming a leftist student leader in the Comité de Luchas Populares (CLP), where she agitated supposedly in favor of students and street vendors. She dyed her hair platinum-blond and played an important role as an activist.[4] She was very aggressive and volatile in her radical political approach to the point that even Chávez called her "uncontrollable", and she even labelled herself as the "ugly part" of the "Revolution".[4][5] She went to jail in 2009 for 3 months for physically attacking a Globovision TV reporter who had supported the US Government's views against Chávez. Earlier, in 2008 she and her companions had attacked the Archbishop's Palace in Caracas and irascibly evicted people who were there, and had adamantly demanded the support of the Catholic Church to the cause of the "Revolution".[4][5]
References
- ^ Smilde, David; Hellinger, Daniel (5 August 2011). Venezuela S Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez. Duke University Press. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-0-8223-5041-5. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter; Morse, Kimberly J.. (2010). Venezuela. ABC-CLIO. pp. 219–. ISBN 978-1-59884-569-3. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ "Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies". BBC. March 5, 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies". BBC News. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "The UPV leader Lina Ron died" (in Spanish). El Universal.com. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2013.