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Luis Herrera Campins For other uses, see Luis Herrera (disambiguation). Antonio Luis Herrera Campins (Acarigua, Portuguesa, May 4, 1925 - Caracas, November 9, 2007) was a lawyer, journalist, historian and politician Venezuelan President also called for their important cultural contributions to culture in Venezuela . He studied law at the Central University of Venezuela who had to leave to finish last at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Milito in the National Union of Students (UNE) and was one of the most prominent youth leaders of the party COPEI. University participated in the strike of 1952, and thus was expelled from the country. It exile in Madrid, where he founded the magazine along with other leaders Tiel Copei and return to the country in 1958, when they ousted the regime of Marcos Perez Jimenez. He was deputy from 1959-1964, head of the parliamentary fraction of his party in Congress during 1962-1969, general secretary of the Christian Democratic Organization of Latin America (ODCA) between 1974-1979. Was elected in the presidential elections of December 3, 1978 (which were held for the fifth time since the establishment of representative democracy in 1958) for the period 1979-1984. During his administration, the income from the sale of oil has tripled, but this did not prevent the large debts contracted with foreign financial institutions, to the extent that the public debt amounted to 25 billion dollars to Venezuela forced to undergo economic directives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In February 1983, the Central Bank of Venezuela was declared insolvent, which sparked a crisis of serious economic and financial history of the country, the result was the devaluation of the currency on February 18 this year, in the so-called Black Friday. After handing the presidency of Venezuela, is leaving public life (though in the 1990s served as president of...