SHORT PROFILE of Manuel Rosales, veteran anti-Chavismo politician and candidate in the July 28 elections in Venezuela. The former mayor of Venezuela's second-largest city, Maracaibo, gained significant popularity in the 2006 presidential election, where he was defeated by socialist Hugo Chavez, who was at the height of his popularity at the time. Rosales, who served as governor of the oil-rich state of Zulia bordering Colombia, went into exile in 2019 after Hugo Chavez's government accused him of corruption and threatened to jail him. He returned in 2015 after Chavez's death and was arrested. Despite running as an opponent of the Maduro regime with the Un Nuevo Tiempo party, Rosales has been accused by the opposition coalition of having close ties to the government since resuming the governorship of Zulia in 2021. SHORT PROFILE OF