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Henrique (English: Henry) is the name of two rulers and two princes of Portugal:

• Henry, Count of Portugal (1066-1112).
• Henry I, King of Portugal (1512-1580).
• Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), a royal prince and important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
• Infante Henry, 4th Duke of Coimbra (born 1949)

It is also the first or middle name of several other people:

• Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey forward
• Altemar Henrique, Brazilian comics artists
• Álvaro Henrique Alves Pires, Brazilian footballer for the LA Galaxy
• Carlos Henrique de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• Carlos Henrique, Brazilian footballer
• Emílio Henrique Baumgart, Brazilian engineer
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil
• Fernando Henrique dos Anjos, Brazilian football goalkeeper
• Flávio Henrique Esteves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
• Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer with the Brisbane Roar
• Henrique Adriano Buss, Brazilian footballer
• Henrique Campos, Portuguese film director
• Henrique Capriles Radonski, Venezuelan politician
• Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
• Henrique Da Silva Gomes, Brazilian football defender
• Henrique de Curitiba, Brazilian composer
• Henrique Frade, Brazilian football striker
• Henrique Galvão, Portuguese military officer, politician and writer
• Henrique Guimarães, Brazilian judoka
• Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
• Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, Portuguese poet, playwright and naval officer
• Henrique Mecking, Brazilian chess master
• Henrique Meirelles, president of the Banco Central do Brasil
• Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro, Portuguese military
• Henrique Olifiers, Brazilian game designer
• Henrique Pousão, Portuguese painter
• Henrique Rosa, interim-president of Guinea-Bissau
• Henrique Walter Pinotti, Brazilian physician and gastric surgeon
• Hugo Henrique Assis do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
• Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra, member of the royal house of Portugal
• José Henrique, Portuguese goalkeeper
• Leonardo Henrique Peixoto dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• Manuel Henriques Tavares Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
• Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, titular emperor of Brazil in 1921
• Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, Brazilian physician and pharmacologist
• Thiago Heleno Henrique Ferreira, Brazilian footballer
• Tiago Henrique Damil Gomes, Portuguese footballer

Other[link]

• Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, football stadium in Guimarães, Portugal
• Henrique, São Tomé and Príncipe, village on the island of São Tomé
• Order of Infante D. Henrique, Portuguese honorific order

See also[link]

• Henriques (disambiguation)

Henrique Capriles Radonski
Governor of Miranda
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2008
Preceded by	Diosdado Cabello
Mayor of Baruta
In office 30 July 2000 – 26 November 2008
Preceded by	Ivonne Attas
Succeeded by	Gerardo Blyde
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 23 January 2000 – 28 March 2000
Preceded by	Carmelo Lauría
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1972-07-11) 11 July 1972 (age 39) Caracas, Venezuela
Political party	Justice First (2000–present) Copei (Before 2000)
Other political affiliations	Coalition for Democratic Unity (2008–present)
Alma mater	Andrés Bello Catholic University Central University of Venezuela
Profession	Lawyer (commercial and tax)
Religion	Roman Catholic[1]
Website	Official website

Henrique Capriles Radonski (born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician. From 2000 until 2008, Capriles was the mayor of Baruta Municipality of Caracas. In November 2008, Capriles was elected Governor of Miranda state, defeating Diosdado Cabello. After winning the election primaries in February 2012, Capriles became the opposition candidate for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election.^[2][3]

Personal life[link]

Henrique Capriles was born in Caracas on 11 July 1972.^[4] His father had Dutch ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who left Europe during World War II. His grandmother's mother and father died in the Treblinka extermination camp.^[5][6] His mother's mother, Lili Bochenek de Radonski, spent 20 months in the Warsaw Ghetto.^[7] His mother's father, Andrés Radonski, was an engineer active in the cinema business in Poland, who after emigrating to Venezuela in 1947 opened his first cinema in Puerto La Cruz.^[8][7] The company "Circuito Radonski" merged into Cinex in 1998.

Capriles describes himself as a "fervent Catholic", having become more spiritual while imprisoned in 2004.^[9][10]

He studied law at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and became a specialist in commerce law in 1994. He also studied tax law at the Central University of Venezuela,^[11] and took courses at the IBFD International Tax Academy in Amsterdam, the Centro Interamericano de Administradores Tributarios in Viterbo, Italy, and Columbia University in New York. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association, as well as the World Association of Young Jurors and the Committee of Taxes of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Venamcham). Capriles has work experience in the public sector, at SENIAT, Venezuela's revenue service, as well as the private sector, at law firms Nevett & Mezquita Abogados and Hoet, Peláez, Castillo & Duque.^[11]

Political career[link]

Capriles was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Venezuela in December 1998, representing the party COPEI and becoming the youngest member of the Venezuelan parliament ever elected.^[6][12] He served as its Vice president until it was dissolved by the Constitutional Assembly in August 1999 and as president of the Chamber of Deputies for two years.^[13][4][14]

Mayor of Baruta (2000–2008)[link]

In the July 2000 elections, Capriles was elected mayor of the Baruta Municipality, representing the party Justice First (Primero Justicia). He was re-elected in October 2004, receiving 79% of the vote, defeating the Chavista candidate, telenovela actor Simón Pestana.

Capriles was Mayor of Baruta during the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. In 2006, Capriles was acquitted on charges of fomenting violence in a siege of the Cuban embassy during the coup attempt, but five months later, his acquittal was revoked; courts reopened the case and ordered Capriles to appear. In the 2002 incident, protesters at the Cuban embassy cut off electricity, smashed windows, and blocked the Cuban ambassador, German Sanchez Otero, from leaving. Otera claimed that Capriles "should have used his authority as the mayor of Caracas' Baruta district to disperse the crowd of angry protesters"; Capriles said "he helped avert more violence by preventing protesters from storming the Embassy".^[15][16] The U.S. Department of State mentioned Capriles' case in its 2008 Human Rights report as a denial of a fair public trial, noting that the case was re-opened after the charges relating to a different incident in April 2002 (the arrest of Ramon Rodriguez Chacin) had been dropped under Chavez' December 2007 amnesty.^[17][18]

Governor of Miranda state (from 2008)[link]

In the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 Capriles was elected Governor of Miranda state, defeating Diosdado Cabello.

2012 Presidential election[link]

Capriles, December 2011

Capriles was selected in primaries held in February 2012 as the opposition candidate against Hugo Chávez in the presidential elections to be held in October 2012; he won the opposition primaries with 1,900,528 (64.2%) votes of the 3,059,024 votes cast (votes abroad not included).^[19]

Capriles has named former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who himself has endorsed Hugo Chavez in the 2012 presidential elections against Capriles,^[20] as his political inspiration.^[6]

In February 2012 Capriles was subject to what were characterized in the press as vicious^[21] and anti-semitic^[22] attacks by state-run media sources.^[23][24] The WSJ said that Capriles "was vilified in a campaign in Venezuela's state-run media, which insinuated he was, among other things, a homosexual and a Zionist agent".^[21] A 13 February 2012 opinion article in the state-owned Radio Nacional de Venezuela, titled "The Enemy is Zionism"^[25] attacked Capriles' Jewish ancestry and linked him with Jewish national groups because of a meeting he had held with local Jewish leaders,^[23][21][26] saying, "This is our enemy, the Zionism that Capriles today represents ... Zionism, along with capitalism, are responsible for 90% of world poverty and imperialist wars."^[21] Capriles is the grandson of Jewish Holocaust survivors^[26] and a self-professed devout Catholic.^[21]

Campaign positions[link]

Education

Capriles has made education one of the main topics of his agenda.^[27][28]

Economy

According to Bloomberg, Capriles "favors former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's mix of market-friendly economic policies combined with income redistribution".^[29] He declared he would analyse all contracts signed with China, Russia and any other nation and only continue those that are good for Venezuela. He also declared he will progressively liberalize the currency control to promote exports and invest more in agriculture.^[30] Valter Pomar, the secretary of international affairs of the Brazilian Workers' Party, disagreed with comparisons of Capriles' economic positions with the economic policies enacted by his party and ex-president Lula da Silva.^[31]

Notes[link]

Further reading[link]

• "Henrique Capriles Radonski, Venezuela presidential candidate, challenges Hugo Chavez". Huffington Post. 3 February 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/henrique-capriles-radonski_n_1241826.html. Retrieved 21 February 2012. 
• "Factbox: Venezuelan opposition leader Capriles". Reuters. 1 April 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/us-venezuela-election-capriles-factbox-idUSBRE83009320120401. Retrieved 10 May 2012. 

External links[link]

• Henrique Capriles Radonski blog
• Henrique Capriles Radonski web site

João André Pinto Neto (born December 28, 1981) is a Portuguese judoka. He was born in Coimbra.He is the European Champion 2008.

Achievements[link]

References[link]

• Factfile on JudoInside.com

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