Fernando Martínez Mottola is a Venezuelan politician who served as Minister of Transport and Communications during the second presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez.
[1] In 1991 he declared that in addition to removing La Mancha Negra, a mysterious black substance that oozed from streets in Caracas, he would also remove residents near the Caracas-La Guaira highway as they "were part of the problem creating filters on the road".
[2] In 2019 he was one of Juan Guaidó's top advisers and participated as a representative in a negotiation between the government and the opposition in Norway.
On 26 March 2024, Argentine president Javier Milei confirmed in a press release that Mottola, along with Magalli Meda, Humberto Villalobos, Claudia Macero, Omar González, and Pedro Urruchurtu were being protected as guests in the Argentine ambassador's residence,[3] which underwent a series of two sieges that cut off power.
[4] On 29 March, the Argentine government granted political asylum to the group after they formally requested it.