Tareck El Aissami is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 12, 1974 in Alberto Adriani Municipality, Mérida, Venezuela.
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah (Spanish pronunciation: [taˈɾek ˈsajðan el ajˈsami ˈmaða] ; Arabic: طارق زيدان العيسمي مداح , born 12 November 1974) is a Venezuelan politician serving as Minister of Industries and National Production since 14 June 2018, and as Minister of Petroleum since 27 April 2020. He previously was Minister of the Interior and Justice from 2008 to 2012, Governor of Aragua from 2012 to 2017 and Vice President of Venezuela from 2017 to 2018. While holding that office, El Aissami faced allegations of participating in corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking. In 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added El Aissami to the ICE Most Wanted List, listed by the Homeland Security Investigations unit.
El Aissami’s father supported Hugo Chávez during the February 1992 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt and was arrested. Following the news of his father’s arrest and the raiding of his childhood home, seventeen-year-old El Aissami became disillusioned with the state of Venezuela. A quote from his father stuck with El Aissami for life, “No matter what happens, remember the capable men are the ones who write history, the incapable criticize it”, with his father referring to Chávez as being able to rewrite history. Following the arrest of El Aissami’s father in 1992, his great-uncle Shibli El Aissami retired from politics in Iraq, remaining in the country until the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
