Gonzalo Himiob

Gonzalo Himiob Santomé (born October 5, 1969) is a Venezuelan lawyer, writer and activist. He is a founding member of the non-governmental organization Foro Penal and is currently its vice-president.

Biography Gonzalo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in 1992, specializing in criminal science at the UCAB in 1996 and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in 2011. He was a university professor at the UCAB from 1996 to 2016 and has been a professor at the UCV since 2000. Himiob was also founder of the legal office Himiob, Romero y Asociados, being coordinator of the criminal and criminology area since 1993, and since 2001 he is an associate researcher of the Legal Research Center of the UCAB.

Since 2014, Gonzalo Himiob has been singled out and criminalized on multiple occasions in the program Con el Mazo Dando de Diosdado Cabello, as well as in different public media and by official spokespersons. He has received threats against his physical and personal integrity because of his work as an activist.

In February 2020 Gonzalo was formally authorized as lawyer authorized to litigate before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Personal life Gonzalo Himiob plays the bass.