Vladimir Villegas

On 2 May 2013, Villegas was offered the position of being the director of Globovisión beside Leopoldo Castillo. Villegas ultimately declined the position citing "differences" with the newly created board of directors.

He is the brother of the journalist and politician Ernesto Villegas, Minister of Communication and Information since October 2012.

He was a member of the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela which drew up the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela. He was the Venezuelan Ambassador to Brazil in 2002, and Ambassador to Mexico from May to November 2005, until the Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis saw him recalled to Caracas. From November 2003 to December 2004 he was the president of the state-run Venezolana de Televisión. In 2006 he was named deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania; he resigned in 2007 over disagreements regarding the 2007 constitutional referendum.

In the 1993 Venezuelan general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for La Causa Radical, representing the Venezuelan Federal District, and was re-elected in the 1998 elections.

Vladimir Villegas Poljak (born 11 December 1961) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. He was President of Venezolana de Televisión from late 2003 to December 2004. He has written regularly for El Nacional and El Mundo, with a weekly column in El Nacional. He is a founder of the Avanzada Progresista party, having previously been a supporter of Patria Para Todos.