# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-arias-cardenas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:43:22.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-arias-cardenas"
name: "Francisco Arias Cárdenas"
slug: "francisco-arias-cardenas"
description: "Francisco Javier Arias Cárdenas is a Venezuelan politician and career military officer, and was the governor of Zulia state. He participated in Hugo Chávez's unsuccessful February 1992 coup attempt, being pardoned in 1994 by Rafael Caldera, along with the other conspirators. He was elected Governor of Zulia state in 1995 for the Radical Cause, and challenged Hugo Chávez for the presidency in 2000. He subsequently served as Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN, and deputy to the National Assembly after the 2010 parliamentary elections."
tagline: "Venezuelan politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Arias_Cardenas_Conferencia.jpg/330px-Arias_Cardenas_Conferencia.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.6
  momentum:             0.01846722068328716
  historical:           5.03906
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PanchoArias2012"
    handle:    "PanchoArias2012"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/panchoarias2012/"
    handle:    "panchoarias2012"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فرنسيسكو أرياس كارديناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Arias_C%C3%A1rdenas"
    title: "Francisco Arias Cárdenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Arias_C%C3%A1rdenas"
    title: "Francisco Arias Cárdenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Arias_C%C3%A1rdenas"
    title: "Francisco Arias Cárdenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Arias_C%C3%A1rdenas"
    title: "Francisco Arias Cárdenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5483151"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump