Jorge Elieser Marquez (born February 20, 1971, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan politician.
[4] According to a profile published on the official page of Venezolana de Televisión on November 3, 2017: "He was aide-de-camp to President Nicolás Maduro, with whom he has worked since he was Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
[6] On November 9, 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury included him in a list of Venezuelan officials sanctioned for allegedly being involved in "electoral fraud, censorship of the media and corruption in food distribution programs".
According to statements by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, the officials are being sanctioned because "they are directly involved in activities that undermine democratic institutions.
He was deemed to be a close associate of Nicolas Maduro and thus a complicit contributor to the progressively deteriorating situation with human rights and democracy in Venezuela, particularly by suppressing free speech and limiting access to independent and critical television and radio stations, news agencies and websites.