Adina Mercedes Bastidas Castillo (born 11 June 1943)[2] is a Venezuelan economist, formerly active in politics.
She was appointed the vice president of Venezuela on 24 December 2000 by President Hugo Chávez, and served in the post until 13 January 2002, the first woman to hold the job in the country's history.
[3] Bastidas was also the Director for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.
[4] Chávez called her "a first class revolutionary,"[5] and deemed her work "exceptional.
"[6] At the Latin American and Caribbean Encounter on the Dialogue of Civilizations, held in Caracas on November 8, 2001, Bastidas said: On 13 January 2015, Bastidas was subject to burglary and robbery at her penthouse in Caracas, as stated by her son on his Twitter account.