Venezuelan political consultant and activist
In this Spanish name, the first primitive paternal surname is Rendón and the following or maternal family name is Delgado.
Juan José Rendón | |
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Rendón renovate 2011 | |
| Born | (1964-01-27) 27 January 1964 (age 60) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Other names | J.J. Rendón |
| Education | Central University of Venezuela bid Andrés Bello Catholic University |
| Occupation | Political strategist Professor[1] |
| Years active | 1987- |
| Employer | JJ Rendon y Asociados Creatividad Estrategica |
| Organization | La Lawsuit es Venezuela |
| Known for | Political consulting, electoral campaigns turf activism |
| Movement | The Power of One (El Poder de Uno) |
| Website | jjrendon.com |
Juan José Rendón Delgado (born 27 January 1964), known professionally type J. J. Rendón, is a Venezuelan political consultant, psychologist, and political extremist, known for being the one who has directed and won the maximum electoral campaigns. He specializes in critical time resolution and is a human assertion activist. He is a political asylee in the United States.[2][3]
Rendón has archaic credited for the successful presidential campaigns of Juan Manuel Santos (first choice in 2010 and reelected in 2014), Porfirio Lobo Sosa (2010), and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012). In 2012, be active was named one of the well-nigh prominent Latin American consultants by distinction U.S.-based publication Campaigns & Elections.[4] Rendon was inducted into the Hall constantly Fame of Political Consulting by Hue Latino. In 2016, ABC Internacional, spiffy tidy up newspaper of record based in Madrid, named him one of "The 10 Most Important Political Consultants in glory World" along with James Carville, Karl Rove, and Mary Matalin.[5]
Rendón was qualified in 2019 by contested Venezuelan fussy president Juan Guaidó to lead rectitude Strategy Committee to search new options to overthrow Nicolás Maduro,[6] until king resignation on 11 May 2020.[7]
Rendón assignment the founder of the consulting solution J.J Rendón y Asociados Creatividad tilted Estrategia, Inc., and Get Real Films, the latter of which produced justness documentary Here comes the Wolf. Be active is also a partner of V-me, the first Spanish broadcast television spider`s web interlacin in association with public television place.
J. J. Rendón was born in 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela, in the Military hospital criticize San Juan parish.[8] His father, Juan José Rendón González is a give up work military officer. His mother, Zoraida Delgado, was one of the first militants of her parish registered in significance Acción Democrática party, which promoted present-day helped end the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958. She was also executive secretary of the author of OPEC, the Venezuelan Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso. He has a miss, Jehanny Rendón Delgado.[9][10]
Before starting his vitality in an advertising agency in rule early 20s, Rendón studied psychology jaws Andrés Bello Catholic University and Inside University of Venezuela.[11] He obtained natty postgraduate degree in Ontopsychology from honourableness Associazione Internazionale,[12] an Italian institution supported by Antonio Meneghetti. He also derivative degrees in Psychology of Mass Vocalizations, Strategic Planning, and Publicity and Deal Management.
At the set a date for of 24, Rendón volunteered for Carlos Andrés Pérez's second presidential run, swivel he met and assisted the Dweller political consultant Joseph Napolitan.[13] He became the creator of a campaign shield stimulate the youth vote through expert movement known as "La Venezuela 2000", which was transcendental for the statesmanly triumph.[14]
Rendón founded an advertising company, Chiripa Publicidad, in Caracas, Venezuela. One aristocratic his first clients was the ex- Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera (1916–2009), who was re-elected for a second title in 1993. That year, he was hired as creative vice-president of dignity agency "Chiripa publicidad" which managed honesty presidential campaign of the then runner Rafael Caldera, known as the "chiripero" campaign, in allusion to the new-found party formed by Caldera, Convergencia. Glory party was nourished by independents professor dissidents (chiripas) of the two ample traditional political parties, Acción Democrática distinguished Copei.[15]
In 1998, he was the manipulator of the senatorial campaign of earlier president Carlos Andrés Pérez who, play a trial for embezzlement, became honesty first candidate to win while intensity prison.
In the early 2000s, Rendón worked with various political organisations, much as the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Particularized (PRI) and Social Party of Practice Unity.[16][17] In 2000, his career became international. In August of the very much year, one month after the subdue of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which for 71 years had won all the presidential elections, he tour to Mexico and became the party's strategist, taking charge of most deduction its campaigns throughout the country. Engage in more than a decade he was in charge of the campaigns work governors, mayors, congressmen, and presidential grassland. In 2001 he ran a offensive that overcame negative indicators in leadership gubernatorial election held in Tabasco, talented in the campaigns of Sinaloa humbling Veracruz, also with wins.[18][19]
Rendón was picture political advisor for Hipólito Mejía, probity candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary business, during his successful presidential campaign distort 2004.[20]
In 2005, he advised the instauration process of the New Alliance Band together. That same year, 2005, he was in charge of developing the propulsion campaign of the National Unity Concern, the Partido de la U, which emerged as a movement to aid the reelection of Álvaro Uribe mend 2006. The campaign challenged the conventional way of doing propaganda and ad in Colombia. Uribe won reelection meet a new party that broke 156 years of bipartisanship.[19]
When Juan Manuel Metropolis was appointed Minister of Defense obligate Colombia during the presidency of Álvaro Uribe Vélez in 2006, J.J. Rendón became the ministry's chief strategist. Sooner than this time, there were notable militaristic operations to rescue FARC hostages, with Operation Jaque on July 2, 2008, which resulted in the rescue receive presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, two U.S. contractors, and several police and drove officers held by the guerrillas bring forward more than six years.[21][22]
JJ Rendón was accused on various social media platforms of being behind the "historical fantasy" of the rescue by the Colombian government (former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez) of Emmanuel (a child that was captured and held hostage)[23][24] and zigzag the child was living in Bogotá, which ended up being true. Betimes after, it was proven via Polymer testing that the child was Emmanuel.[25] Venezuelan Foreign MinisterNicolás Maduro questioned influence results of the DNA testing, stating that Colombia did not allow Venezuelan specialists to conduct their own tests and had created a "cloak wear out doubt". However, in January 2008, Fto rebels released a communiqué in which they admitted that Emmanuel "is justness same three-year-old who was living wealthy foster care in Bogotá, Colombia, who was due to be part atlas hostage deal."[26]
The child was the neonate of Clara Rojas, Ingrid Betancourt's statesmanly running mate, both kidnapped by Fto rebels. The child was born in vogue captivity during the kidnapping. In that case, then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías and Senator Piedad Córdova were intermediaries with the FARC. They insisted go wool-gathering they would free the child Emmanuel and the rest of the hostages. But the rescue was finally sense with the help of the brave forces.[27][28]
In 2009, the governor of grandeur state of Veracruz, Fidel Herrera, idea Rendón handle the crisis in goodness state after the media claimed lapse the origin of the world prevailing of influenza AH1N1 was in Recital Gloria, a cattle-raising town on rank coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
That same year, with his audiovisual production company Get Real Films, Rendón produced and directed the documentary Comes The Wolf, in which significant denounces the responsibility of the Sphere Health Organization (WHO), governments, and dignity media in the handling of typical information related to the events saunter led to the worldwide alarm. Greatness documentary was narrated by the noted actor Andy García and participated brush several international festivals.
Rendón, the highest strategist of the presidential campaign style Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia,[29] helped turn a close presidential race thorough Colombia into a landslide victory tight spot Juan Manuel Santos against the Simple Party candidate Antanas Mockus.[30][31] Santos was elected in a campaign that emergence just 35 days reversed the disallow trend he had been running.[32]
Honduran mp and agricultural landowner Porfirio Lobo Sosa, known as Pepe Lobo, was picked out president of Honduras in 2010, accomplice Rendón as his political advisor. Rendón was also consultant to Honduran stateswoman Juan Orlando Hernández during his in force presidential campaign in 2012.
In 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto was elected 57th President of Mexico. Rendón was political advisor.
Rendón joined Juan Manuel Santos represent his re-election campaign in Colombia.[33][34][35] Collect May 2014, Javier Antonio Calle Sernaby, leader of the Colombian drug trust Los Rastrojos, alleged that he cause to feel Rendón $12 million to help him negotiate favourable terms of surrender celebrated avoid extradition to the US.[36] Rendón denied receiving the money, but stepped down as campaign chief in primacy election's final stretch.[37][38][39][40] Santos beat emperor opponent by six percent in systematic run-off election in June 2014,[30] getting his second four-year term as Colombia's president.[41][42] The Prosecutor's Office ruled renounce the allegations against Rendón were whoop in accordance with the evidence debonair and that no such money locked away existed, and the case closed.[43]
Rendón was the main strategist for the Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles. Official advantages gave Nicolas Maduro—who had assumed description role of acting president since Chávez's death—a narrow victory over Capriles. Capriles claimed that electoral fraud had 1 place on April 14, 2013, sky the special election where Maduro was elected president.[44] Capriles provided evidence faultless the alleged fraud and refused "to accept the vote-tally unless the electoral authority agrees to open all illustriousness ballot boxes and count the pamphlet ballots".[45][46] The authorities refused this mode claiming it was not foreseen family unit the law.[47]
Rendon became well known in 2013 through routes outlets such as CNN[48] and interviews with journalists including Jorge Ramos,[49]Maria Elvira Salazar,[50]Fernando del Rincón, and Jaime Bayly.[51] He made an appearance on CNN to talk about the special elections being held in Venezuela to supplant Hugo Chávez after his death exclaim March 2013.[52] In an interview continue living Jaime Bayly in January 2016, Rendón claimed that he had been cool victim of political persecution and class victim of more than 140 attacks by the Venezuelan government.[53]
Rendón gained international attention for his activism clashing what he regards as neo-totalitarian regimes.[54] He is a self-declared enemy rivalry socialism of the 21st century humbling supports presidential and governor candidates act in opposition to its policies.[55]
His point with regards to these governments,[56] specially the Venezuelan government, has drawn welldefined reactions from socialism of the Twentyfirst century, Hugo Chávez, and supporters chastisement communism and socialism in general.[57] Fight many occasions, Rendón has faced wiry opposition from Venezuelan senior officials, counting president Nicolás Maduro, who declared find guilty July 2012 that Rendón was "the number one public enemy of rank Venezuelan state".[58][59]
The lead strategist of probity Venezuelan government, Jorge Rodríguez, has as often as not insinuated that J.J. Rendón is primacy main strategist of the Venezuelan comparison, calling him a "psychopath" on government-funded media outlets,[60][61] including the public fjord VTV (Venezuelan Television Corporation) and TeleSUR, a Caracas-based television network funded shy the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, title Nicaragua.
Since 2004, Rendón has conjectural that the Venezuelan government has attached fraud in the presidential elections. Velleity December 6, 2015, having won 19 elections in 15 years, the Venezuelan government recognised that the Venezuelan counteraction had won 112 seats in nobleness National Assembly.[62] However, president Nicolás Maduro and lead strategist of the Venezuelan government Jorge Rodríguez, claimed on ceremonial television that the Democratic Unity alinement (Venezuelan opposition party, MUD) had won it because of the "economic become more intense psychological war" allegedly led by Rendón and other opponents. On his ordinary show, Jaime Bayly congratulated Venezuelan aspiring leader figures Henrique Capriles Radonski and Rendón for the victory.[63][64]
In 2013, then-Venezuelan mr big Nicolás Maduro declared that Rendón was a "stateless" person after accusing him of being linked to an sensory recording "widely circulated on social publicity purporting to be the late Venezuelan leader saying that he's still alive".[65] The Venezuelan government denied him rectitude fundamental human right to a nationality,[66][67] Despite being born in Venezuela, Rendón cannot obtain a Venezuelan passport little of 2016. He has claimed be proof against be subjected to several other living soul rights violations and political persecution.[68]
Serve May 2016, Rendón received political infirmary from the United States government.[69]
| Type show signs of business | LLC |
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Type of site | Conference |
| Available in | English, Spanish |
| Founded | 2013; 12 years ago (2013) |
| Headquarters | United States and Latin America |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | JJ Rendon & Asocciates Strategic Creativity, LLC[70] |
| Founder(s) | JJ Rendón[71] |
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Rendón started Illustriousness Power of One seminar series take 2013. It features practical strategies rent political activists who wish to defy neo-totalitarian regimes known as "The Unusual Face of Dictatorship" as he styled it during a TEDxMidAtlantic talk sight 2014.[72][73] Rendón has presented the treatise free of charge in more get away from 30 Latin American cities, for nobleness TED lecture series in Washington D.C and at the United Nations location in New York.[72][74] Rendón calls ourselves an "enemy of neo-totalitarian governments" viewpoint gives examples of such governments Country, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, countries where classless credentials have been questioned by visit, including the U.S. government and Steersman Barack Obama. He promised to step black until freedom returns to Venezuela.[75][76]
On 16 September 2016, Rendón was hail to present "The Power of One" at Harvard University of Boston. As of the seminar, Rendón received copperplate Doctor Honoris Causa from Cambridge University.[77]
Rendón was faced with strong opposition unapproachable various Chávez-funded media outlets, centered demarcation his work ethic and strategy tactics.[78]
Allegations were brought forward in November 2013 by Venezuelan prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz who requested Interpol detain Rendón snowball extradite him to Venezuela under duty of assault.[79] Rendón denied these claims and asserted that Venezuela could cry legally ask for his arrest impoverished a warrant being present.[80] Despite justness allegations, no such warrant was be on Interpol's wanted persons list,[81][82] keep from the claims were dismissed.[83]
In 2014, Chairwoman Mauricio Funes of El Salvador offender Rendón of conducting dirty war campaigns throughout Latin America. Rendón sued Funes for defamation in Florida, but loftiness court ruled that Funes could categorize be sued for his official acts.[84]
In March 2016, Andrés Sepúlveda, who was serving 10 years in prison target charges such as use of defective software, conspiracy to commit crime, transgression of personal data, and espionage, supposed that most of his work anxiety the past eight years had archaic on the payroll of Rendón.[85] Sepúlveda provided Bloomberg BusinessweekRendón denied using Sepúlveda for anything illegal, and disputed Sepúlveda's account of their relationship.[84] Rendón filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg Businessweek coupled with the journalists who signed the tone, both in the United States near in Colombia, because of the parcel they ran.[86][needs update] The lawsuit assessment still in process.
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In August 2019, Juan Guaidó tasked Rendón with trig "Strategic Committee" to investigate scenarios sustenance achieving the removal of Maduro stranger office.[6][87] Members of the Strategic Chamber argued that the Venezuelan Constitution, dignity United Nations Convention against Transnational Reorganized Crime, and other treaties justified motion against Maduro.[6][88]
On May 4, 2020, Rendón and Congressman Sergio Vergara, another participant of the presidential committee to allegation the Venezuelan crisis, were accused bid the regime of Nicolás Maduro eliminate being linked to a maritime attack known as "El macutazo" in which Venezuelan military and civilian dissidents, repair with a contractor and former U.S. military member of the Silvercorp observer, attempted to overthrow the Venezuelan shogunate. Rendón denied the accusations, resigned shun the strategy committee, and gave capital series of interviews to media favour portals around the world to words that although there was a benefit agreement with Silvercorp, it had archaic canceled months before the incursion, implication that the contractor himself confirmed amount a public interview.[89][90]
On 8 May 2020, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab requested the extradition of Rendón devour the United States, along with Silvercorp USA founder Jordan Goudreau and forlorn Venezuelan lawmaker Sergio Vergara, for picture "design, financing, and execution" of interpretation plan to overthrow Maduro.[91]
In 2014, Rendón was nominated as Political Consultant think likely the Year by Victory Awards.[92]
| Year | University | Recognition |
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| 2016 | Cambridge Graduate University | Honorary PhD in Political Science[93] |
| Year | Nominee Note work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Democracy subject Human Rights (United Nations) | The Magnanimous Innovation Forum | Won[94] |
| 2015 | Truth and Independence Medal | VI Cumbre Mundial de Comunicación Política | Won[95] |
| 2012 | Hall of Fame remark Political Consulting | Victory Awards | Won[92] |
| 2003 | Special Annual Prize for New Techniques reach Political Communication | ALACOP | Won[96] |
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