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Rodolfo Clemente Marco Torres (Aragua, Venezuela, September 10, 1966), is a Venezuelan soldier and politician. He is the current governor of the state of Aragua.

He was Minister of State for Public Banking, Minister of Food and Director of the Bank of Venezuela, as well as being president of the Bicentennial Bank and the Treasury Bank. Similarly, President Nicolas Maduro announced on January 15, 2014 as Minister of Popular Power for Finance, a position that was dismissed by the National Assembly on April 28, 2016. Decision revoked by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice on August 19, 2016. On August 13, 2017, he was announced his candidacy for the Governorate of Aragua state, which he won.

Corruption
On January 6, 2018 the US Department of State issued sanctions against Rodoldo Clemente and 3 other officials of the Venezuelan government for their links with corruption networks. The State Department assures that these "high-ranking military officers and officials benefit from corruption under the Maduro regime as citizens, the economy and democratic institutions languish."

Rodolfo Clemetente Marco Torres has been repeatedly accused of multi-millionaires made of corruption during his diverse and controversial charges in the regimes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.

Biography
He graduated from the Military Academy in 1988. He participated in the coup attempt, led by Hugo Chávez, on February 4, 1992 against President Carlos Andrés Pérez. He has held various positions in Venezuelan government institutions.

On August 22, 2005, he was named president of the Banco del Tesoro by President Hugo Chávez. Then he became the National Treasurer in 2011.

By January 2014, he was appointed Minister of the Popular Power of Economy, Finance and Public Banking, when he merged with the Ministry of State for Public Banking.

By April 2016, the National Assembly, with more than 3/5 of those present, approved their removal from the position of Economy, Finance and Public Banking.

Decorations
Military Order General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras.