Yolanda Tortolero

Yolanda Tortolero
Died18 May 2021
San Felipe (Venezuela)
NationalityVenezuelan
OccupationPolitician
Political partyA New Era

Yolanda Tortolero Martínez (died 18 May 2021) was a Venezuelan physician and politician, alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Carabobo state and the A New Era party.

Career

Tortolero was a physician by profession and worked at the Bejuma Hospital for several years, a town in the Carabobo state where she was from.[1][2] She was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for Carabobo for the period 2016–2021 in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and the A New Era (UNT in Spanish) party.[3] In 2020 she was one of the 100 deputies to vote in person in favor of reelecting Juan Guaidó as president of the Assembly in the National Assembly Delegated Committee election.[4]

In 2021 she was hospitalized in San Felipe, Yaracuy state; her party, colleagues and inhabitants of Bejuma asked for financial assistance for her medical attention.[1][5] Although her death had originally been reported by 14 May, the regional executive board of UNT in Carabobo informed that by that date the parliamentarian was still alive.[1] After fighting against COVID-19 for about three weeks, Tortolero died on 18 May from complications derived from the disease.[1][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Carabobo | Muere diputada opositora Yolanda Tortolero por COVID-19". El Pitazo (in Spanish). 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  2. ^ "Un Nuevo Tiempo desmintió fallecimiento de la diputada Yolanda Tortolero". Tal Cual (in Spanish). 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  3. ^ "Yolanda Tortolero Martínez". Asamblea Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  4. ^ Morales P., Maru (2020-01-06). "Con 100 votos presenciales oposición reelige a Guaidó como presidente de la AN". Crónica Uno (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  5. ^ a b "Falleció por coronavirus la diputada Yolanda Tortolero". El Nacional (in Spanish). 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  6. ^ "Diputados de la Asamblea Nacional transmitieron sus condolencias ante fallecimiento de Yolanda Tortolero, parlamentaria por el estado Carabobo". Presidencia Venezuela (in Spanish). 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2022-01-17.