What is Alí Rodríguez Araque?
[[File:Rodríguez Araque (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Alí Rodríguez Araque''' (9 September 1937 – 19 November 2018)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.el-nacional.com/Articulos/DetalleArticulo.asp?Id=87695&IdSeccion=84 |title=El Nacional.com |access-date=2006-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019063944/http://el-nacional.com/Articulos/DetalleArticulo.asp?Id=87695&IdSeccion=84 |archive-date=19 October 2006 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> was a Venezuelan politician, lawyer, and [[Diplomacy|diplomat]].<ref>{{ cite news | url=http://ramonlobo.psuv.org.ve/2013/02/03/noticias/ali-rodriguez-araque-el-diplomatico-y-revolucionario-de-las-montanas/#.Ul6RTX_ow1I | title=Alí Rodríguez Araque: El diplomático y revolucionario de las montañas | language=es | publisher=[[PSUV]] | date=2 March 2013 | access-date=16 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016154442/http://ramonlobo.psuv.org.ve/2013/02/03/noticias/ali-rodriguez-araque-el-diplomatico-y-revolucionario-de-las-montanas/#.Ul6RTX_ow1I | archive-date=16 October 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was born in [[Ejido, Venezuela|Ejido]], [[Mérida (state)|Mérida]], [[Venezuela]]. He was the leader of the party Patria Para Todos. He worked under the [[Hugo Chávez]] administration, such as [[Petroleum|oil]] advisor, General Secretary of OPEC, President of [[Petróleos de Venezuela]] (PDVSA), Minister of External Relations and Ambassador to [[Cuba]]. He was appointed as Minister of Finance in June 2008. His last occupation was Ambassador of Venezuela from 2014 until his death in 2018. Rodríguez Araque died on 19 November 2018 in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]] from a [[heart attack]] at the age of 81.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.whig.com/article/20181120/AP/311209992 |title=Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba Ali Rodriguez dies |access-date=2018-11-22 |archive-date=2018-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120101230/https://www.whig.com/article/20181120/AP/311209992 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} =