Yolanda Tortolero | |
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Died | 18 May 2021 |
Nationality | Venezuelan |
Occupation | Politician |
Political party | A New Era |
Yolanda Tortolero Martínez (died 18 May 2021) was a Venezuelan physician and politician, alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Carabobo state and the A New Era party.
Tortolero was a physician by profession and worked at the Bejuma Hospital for several years, a town in the Carabobo state where she was from. [1] [2] She was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for Carabobo for the period 2016–2021 in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and the A New Era (UNT in Spanish) party. [3] In 2020 she was one of the 100 deputies to vote in person in favor of reelecting Juan Guaidó as president of the Assembly in the National Assembly Delegated Committee election. [4]
In 2021 she was hospitalized in San Felipe, Yaracuy state; her party, colleagues and inhabitants of Bejuma asked for financial assistance for her medical attention. [1] [5] Although her death had originally been reported by 14 May, the regional executive board of UNT in Carabobo informed that by that date the parliamentarian was still alive. [1] After fighting against COVID-19 for about three weeks, Tortolero died on 18 May from complications derived from the disease. [1] [5] [6]