[2] His relation with Primero Justicia ended as a result of being called to occupy the position of Minister of Finance in the "de facto" government that was intended to be formed after the coup d'état of April 2002.
During his tenure as a member of the Assembly, Martinez Nucete was vocal and fearless in denouncing what he considered the authoritarian trends of the Chavez government, as well as its reckless management of the economy and corruption.
Between the years of 2002 and 2005 members of Chavez' parliamentary fraction petition the Supreme Court to authorize the impeachment of Martinez Nucete as a conspirator and traitor of the national interest.
After years of successful litigation efforts against this confiscation, the process was ended in 24 hours, adverse to the Martinez Family, with an irregular ruling of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court which, in their Judgement 1863 on December 19, 2014 (case 14–1342), returned the asset to the control of the government.
[5] For that reason, as the Founder CDDA/IQLatino, we was a founding board member of the influential political action committee Foreign Policy for America and lately, the Co-Chair of the Venezuela Solutions Group of the prestigious Altlantic Council.
Given his leadership roles with Latino Victory, Martinez Nucete has supervised or advised the work of such organization in the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton (2016) and Joe Biden (2020); and in more than 50 political campaigns of candidates for the United States Congress or Senate, as well as candidates for Governor or legislators in States such as Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, California, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona.
Martinez Nucete has also been a strong promoter of capacity building efforts in the progressive ecosystem, through his involvement as Board member of the National Democratic Training Committee.
In his activism and advocacy on Latino empowerment, with the Latino Victory Project and as a DNC member, Leopoldo Martinez spearheaded the efforts that led to including in the Democratic Party’s platform of 2020 the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan refugees fleeing the humanitarian crisis and oppressive regime of Nicolas Maduro, which became effective during the Biden Harris Administration since March 2021.