Paul del Rio

It was not as an artist but as a MIR (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria) guerrilla that del Rio first came to public notice under the pseudonym Máximo Canales.

[citation needed] Six months later, del Rio kidnapped Argentine football player star Alfredo Di Stefano at gunpoint from the Potomac Hotel in Caracas while his team, Real Madrid, were on a pre-season tour of South America (8/24/1963).

In a bizarre publicity stunt at the premiere, del Rio and Di Stefano were brought together for the first time in the 42 years since the abduction.

The Venezuelan Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso as minister of mines and hydrocarbons for president Romulo Betancourt was the founder of OPEC, an idea he conceived while exiled in the United States during his review of the Texas Railroad Commission.

At 2.20 metres high, it is a casting of the emblem of the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of OPEC Member Countries, which Venezuela hosted in Caracas on September 27–28, 2000.