Erika Farías

Erika del Valle Farías Peña (born 30 October 1972) is a Venezuelan politician. She served as Minister for the Office of the Presidency three times as Minister for Urban Agriculture, Minister for the Communes and deputy to the 2017 National Constituent Assembly. She is a militant and member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and is currently the mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality of Caracas. deputy of the National Assembly for Cojedes in 2010. On 16 December 2012, she won the governor elections for the Cojedes State, with 75,383 votes.

She was appointed Minister of People's Power for Communes and Social Movements by Nicolás Maduro in 2016.

Sanctions On 9 August 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury placed sanctions on Farías for her position in the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela.

Responding to the May 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, Canada sanctioned 14 Venezuelans on 30 May 2018, including Farías, stating that the "economic, political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has continued to worsen as it moves ever closer to full dictatorship". The government said the 2018 presidential election was "illegitimate and anti-democratic",