Gabriela Ramírez

Not to be confused with Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez.

Gabriela del Mar Ramírez Pérez is a Venezuelan politician who served as Venezuela's Ombudswoman between 2007 and 2014.

Gabriela Ramírez
Predecessor	Germán Mundaraín
Successor	Tarek William Saab

Career

Ramírez was a deputy to the National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and served as Venezuela's Ombudswoman between 2007 and 2014.^[1] During the 2014 protests, she asked to distinguish torture from "excessive or disproportionate use of force", arguing that torture happened only when used to extract confessions.^[2]

In 2017 Ramírez resigned as an advisor to the legal consultancy of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice after rejecting the call of the government of Nicolás Maduro for a National Constituent Assembly without requesting a prior popular consultation,^[3][4] like the 1999 Constituent Assembly did.^[1]

In 2019, her ex-husband posted a video on social media saying that Ramírez was in Spain and that she worked washing dishes.^[5]

References

1. Scharfenberg, Ewald (29 May 2017). "La ex defensora del Pueblo de Venezuela rechaza la propuesta constituyente de Maduro". El País. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
2. "Defensora del Pueblo de Venezuela defiende el uso de la tortura". La República (in Spanish). 2014-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
3. "La carta de renuncia de la exdefensora Gabriela Ramírez a su cargo en el TSJ (+Asesora)". Retrieved 3 June 2017.
4. "Exdefensora del pueblo, Gabriela Ramírez renuncia a cargo en el TSJ (+Carta)". 2001. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
5. "De defensora del chavismo a lavaplatos: Gabriela Ramírez se ganaría la vida en un restaurante de España". NTN24. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.