Mario Silva
Member of Parliament
In office 28 June 2004 – 2 May 2011
Preceded by	Charles Caccia
Succeeded by	Andrew Cash
Constituency	Davenport
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-11) June 11, 1966 (age 46) Azores, Portugal
Political party	Liberal
Residence	Toronto
Profession	Educator

Mario Silva, (born June 11, 1966) is a Canadian politician and a former Canadian Member of Parliament. Silva is a former a Toronto City Councillor (1994–2003) and acting mayor.^{[Note 1]} He moved to federal politics, being elected for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2004 election in the Toronto riding of Davenport. He served as the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs (Americas) after having served as Critic for the Treasury Board and Liberal Critic for Labour Issues. In 2007, the President of the French Republic bestowed him the title of Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur).

Silva holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, a "Certificat de Langue Francaise" from Paris-Sorbonne University, and a Master's degree in International Human Rights Law from University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.^[1] Silva is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is writing a thesis entitled "Restoration of Failed States: Addressing Competency Gaps." On December 15, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed him to chair the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) in 2013.^[2]

Local politics[link]

Born in the Azores, Portugal, he was first elected to city council in 1994 after defeating veteran councillor Tony O'Donohue by 15 votes.^[3] Silva received a high grade from the Toronto Environmental Alliance for his support of environmental initiatives, and has strong support from the Labour Movement. Silva is of Portuguese background and is popular in the local Portuguese community.

Federal politics[link]

Silva's move to federal politics saw him claim the Liberal nomination in Davenport instead of Liberal incumbent Charles Caccia. An ally of new Prime Minister Paul Martin, Silva was seen by the party as a preferable candidate to Caccia. Caccia had supported Sheila Copps against Martin in the 2003 Liberal Party leadership election.^[4]

Silva signed up enough new members to likely defeat Caccia in a nomination battle;^[5] Caccia instead chose not to file to be the party's candidate, and after mulling running in the election against Silva as a Green candidate or as an Independent,^[6] announced his retirement from politics.^[7]

As a Member of Parliament Silva served on several committees including the Environment Committee and the Canadian Heritage Committee. He has championed several human rights and environmental issues including being the first MP to back the Canadian Boreal Initiative, and an outspoken critic for the defence of undocumented workers.

Silva chaired the inquiry panel of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA), a multi-partisan group of MPs which has been conducting investigations into antisemitism in Canada. He is vice-chair of the CPCCA's steering committee, which organized an international conference on antisemitism in Ottawa in 2010.

Silva was the first Portuguese-Canadian Member of Parliament and only the second MP of Portuguese descent (the first being John Rodriguez, a former New Democratic Party MP for Nickel Belt, who is of Guyanese Portuguese descent).

Shortly after the election, Silva came out as gay in a Toronto Star profile.^[8]

Silva retained the seat in the 2006 election and was the only GTA Liberal MP to increase his voter margin but was defeated in the 2011 election, losing his seat to Andrew Cash. Silva will assume the role of the Chair the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) in 2013.

Publications[link]

•“Island of Distress: State Failure in Haiti”, Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 23, 2011

•“Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence and the Right to Self-Determination Under International Law”, The Journal of Eurasia Law, Vol. 3(2), 2011, Duke University

•“Somalia: State Failure, Piracy, and the Challenges to International Law”, Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 50 (3), 2010

•“Extraordinary Rendition: A Challenge to Canadian and United States Legal Obligations Under the Convention Against Torture”, California Western International Law Journal, Vol. 39(2), 2009

•Fabric of a Nation, GOLDENeight Publishers, Toronto, 2002 (Co-Author)

Federal election results[link]

Source: Elections Canada

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Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Biography at Liberal Party website
• Mario Silva - Parliament of Canada biography

Political office[link]

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Diosdado Cabello
President of Venezuela Acting
In office 13 April 2002 – 14 April 2002
President	Hugo Chávez
Preceded by	Pedro Carmona (de facto)
Succeeded by	Hugo Chávez
20th Vice President of Venezuela
In office 13 January 2002 – 28 April 2002
President	Hugo Chávez
Preceded by	Adina Bastidas
Succeeded by	José Vicente Rangel
Minister of Interior and Justice
In office May 2002 – January 2003
Preceded by	Ramón Rodríguez Chacín
Succeeded by	Lucas Rincón Romero
35th Governor of Miranda
In office 2004–2008
Preceded by	Enrique Mendoza
Succeeded by	Henrique Capriles Radonski
Personal details
Born	(1963-04-15) April 15, 1963 (age 49) El Furrial, Monagas State, Venezuela
Political party	MVR (1997–2008) PSUV (2008 – present)
Profession	Engineer

Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963^[1]) is a Venezuelan politician. A former member of the armed forces, he was involved in Hugo Chávez's February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. He became a leading member of Chavez's Movimiento V República (MVR), and remains a leading member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela into which MVR was merged in 2007. Governor of Miranda from 2004 to 2008,he lost the 2008 election to Henrique Capriles Radonski, and was subsequently appointed Public Works & Housing Minister. In November 2009 he was additionally appointed head of the National Commission of Telecom, a position traditionally independent from Ministry of Public Works and Housing.^[2] In 2010, he was elected deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela, the country's legislative branch.

Background[link]

Diosdado Cabello was born in El Furrial, Monagas State.^[1] His background is in engineering: he has an undergraduate degree in systems engineering from the Instituto Universitario Politécnico de las Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales^[1] and a graduate degree in engineering project management from the Andrés Bello Catholic University.^[1] A former member of the armed forces, he was involved in Chávez's abortive coup d'état of February 1992, for which he was jailed for two years.^[3]

Political career[link]

Following Chávez's 1998 electoral victory, he helped set up the pro-Chávez grassroots civil society organizations known as "Bolivarian Circles". He was head of telecoms regulator Conatel during the time the market was opened to competition. In May 2001 he became Chavez' chief of staff, and was appointed Vice President by President Hugo Chávez on January 13, 2002, replacing Adina Bastidas.^[3] As such, he was responsible to both the president and the National Assembly, and for the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the government.

On April 13, 2002, he took on the duties of the presidency on a temporary basis, replacing Pedro Carmona, head of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, as interim president after the coup d'état when Chávez was kept prisoner and was consequently absent from office. Upon taking office, Cabello said that "I, Diosdado Cabello, am assuming the presidency until such time as the president of the republic, Hugo Chávez Frías, appears." A few hours later, Chávez was back in office. This made Cabello's presidency the world's second briefest, after that of Mexican President Pedro Lascuráin.

On April 28, 2002, Cabello was replaced as Vice President by José Vicente Rangel. Cabello was named interior minister in May 2002,^[4] and then infrastructure minister in January 2003.

In October 2004, he was elected to a four-year term as Governor of Miranda State. He lost the 2008 election to Henrique Capriles Radonski, and was subsequently appointed Public Works & Housing Minister. In November 2009 he was additionally appointed head of Conatel.^[2]

His sister, Glenna Daboin, is a political scientist and current Counsellor of the Venezuelan Permanent Mission to the United Nations.^[5] His brother, José David Cabello, previously minister of infrastructure, is in charge of the nation's taxes as head of SENIAT, Venezuela's revenue service.

References[link]

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Carlos Eduardo Ocariz Guerra (Maracay, Aragua, 1 May 1971), is a Venezuelan politician and engineer. Former deputy and current Mayor of Sucre Municipality in east-Caracas. His victory in Sucre was considered a surprise, because Sucre was one of the poorest districts in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Is part of the opposition to President Hugo Chávez being a member of Primero Justicia (or Justice First). On the 22nd of February 2012, Ocariz announced that he planned to run for the office of Governor of Miranda state in Venezuela after the current governor, Henrique Capriles Radonski won the right to be the opposition candidate against President Hugo Chavez in the 2012 presidential elections.

References[link]

• Carlos Ocariz Biography - Sucre Municipality website
• Carlos Ocariz wins in Sucre (The Economist)