Jesús Alberto Torrealba Rodríguez (born May 18, 1958 in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

), also known as Chúo Torrealba, is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...

n politician and journalist, serving as Secretary-General of the

Democratic Unity Roundtable The Democratic Unity Roundtable ( es, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) was a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party ...

(MUD) from September 24, 2014 to February 17, 2017.Chúo Torrealba, el papaúpa de la MUD
Climax, December 29, 2014.Jesús Torrealba renuncia a liderazgo en MUD
, elCaribe, February 18, 2017 Torrealba was originally active in the

Communist Party of Venezuela The Communist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV) is a communist party and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela. It was the main leftist political party in Venezuela from its foundation in 1931 until its ...

(PCV) until 1974. In the 1980s, Torrealba trained as a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas (IPC) and studied journalism at the

Central University of Venezuela The Central University of Venezuela ( Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in ...

(UCV). In 2000 he founded the civil association ''Radar de los barrios'' ("Radar of the slums") to promote social work in Caracas. On September 23, 2014, Torrealba was elected Secretary-General of the Venezuelan opposition coalition (MUD).Torrealba es el nuevo secretario ejecutivo de la MUD
Globovisión, September 24, 2014.

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1958 births Central University of Venezuela alumni Living people Politicians from Caracas Venezuelan journalists {{SouthAm-journalist-stub