Jorge Rodríguez (Venezuelan politician)

Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Gómez (born 9 November 1965) is a Venezuelan politician and psychiatrist serving as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela since 2021.

Following the defeat of the referendum, Chávez announced on 3 January 2008 that he was replacing Rodríguez with Ramón Carrizales, previously the Minister of Housing.

On 22 September 2017, Canada sanctioned Rodríguez due to rupture of Venezuela's constitutional order following the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election.

[6][7] In January 2019, Rodríguez was one of over 200 people with a "close relationship and support for the Nicolás Maduro regime", who were banned from entering the Colombia.

He was arrested in 1976 as a suspect in the kidnapping by guerrillas of William Frank Niehous [es], vice-president of the Owens-Illinois Venezuela, and tortured to death by the police.