Roberto "Bobby" Pocaterra Silva (born 1 October 1941 – 22 April 2016 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Venezuelan economist, professor and politician.
As a student activist in this city, he participated in the national protests that preceded overthrow of Marcos Perez Jimenez on January 23, 1958.
[1] During Venezuela's first democratic government, his uncle, Julio Pocaterra, was one of President Rómulo Betancourt's closest confidants and convinced him to make his son his personal secretary.
[2][3][1] On February 27, 1988, he was appointed president of the Banco Industrial de Venezuela -a position he held until 1990- where he was in charge of reforming the institution's organizational structure to adapt to the needs of a country that was coming out of a major economic recession that led to El Caracazo.
[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] In 1993, he internally contested within Accion Democratica the possibility of being a candidate for mayor of Caracas, but the party opted for Claudio Fermín who ultimately lost the election to Aristóbulo Isturiz.