Carmen Meléndez

Carmen Teresa Meléndez Rivas (born 3 November 1961) is a Venezuelan politician and Navy admiral.[5] On July 3, 2012, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, promoted her to the rank of Vice Admiral.[6] Melendez was the first Venezuelan woman to receive this distinction in after being named Commander of General Staff of the Bolivarian Armed Forces.[10][11] On 9 August 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury placed sanctions on Meléndez for her position in the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela where she is tasked with the street government command.[12] Canada sanctioned Meléndez on 22 September 2017 due to alleged "rupture of Venezuela's constitutional order.
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