Biographical Profile of Alejandro Hitcher, the new Minister of Environment and Natural Resources
By: Aporrea.org
Release Date: 27/01/10

Alejandro Hitcher
Credit: Hidrocapital


Alejandro Hitcher born in 1960. Is a Civil Engineer, Hydraulic mention the Central University of Venezuela.

In the university environment was part of the famous 80 in the Movement who were also students who took the path of the water, as Christopher Francis and Jacqueline Farías. Motion 80 was one of the bastions formative Hitcher.

Even before they graduate from university was formed as a specialist subject Drinking Water

He worked at the INOS, a body that dismantled the Fourth Republic to promote their business with privatization intentions.

With the birth of Hidroven Hidrocapital and held various operational and managerial positions both in Caracas and in Valles del Tuy, and provided advice on the subject in the states of Sucre, Monagas and Anzoategui.

He had to do with the birth of the Community Councils and Water Technical Tables as organizational tools in communities to solve problems Water and Sanitation.



Participated in the coordination of the Copa America on behalf of the Vice President of the Republic (Jorge Rodriguez) and subsequently coordinated the Presidential Commission for the explosion of communal power of the state of Vargas.

In 1999 he stepped into the presidency Hidroven and lived directly next to Jacqueline Farias, president of Hidrocapital then the tragedy that resulted in the destruction of the dam of El Guapo and its consequences.


Between 2000 and 2004 he was Deputy Minister of Water, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

In 2005 he became president of Hidrocapital.

Today is the new Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela


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