Carlos Eduardo Giménez Colmenares was born in the
Independencia Municipality, located in the
Yaracuy State on April 9, 1959. He would go on to study law at the Universidad Fermin Toro in
Barquisimeto in the
Lara State. He was elected to the Yaracuy Legislative Assembly in 1993 where he would serve until 1996, when he was elected mayor of Independencia Municipality. In 1998, he became
vice-president of the Bolivarian National Association of Mayors of Venezuela (Asociacion Nacional Bolivariana de Alcaldes de Venezuela). That same year, he supported the candidacy of
Hugo Chávez. In the
October 2004 regional elections, Gimenez was elected governor of Yaracuy, beating the incumbent anti-Chavez governor,
Eduardo Lapi. ==References==