Argenis Chávez

Argenis Chávez Frías
Governor of Barinas
In office
15 October 2016  30 November 2021
Preceded byZenaida Gallardo
Succeeded bySergio Garrido
Deputy Minister of Electric Power
In office
2011–2013
Personal details
Born (1958-07-03) July 3, 1958
Sabaneta, Barinas, Venezuela
Political partyUnited Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
Spouse
Belkis Quintero
(m. 1999)
Children2
Parent(s)Hugo de los Reyes Chávez
Elena Frías de Chávez

Argenis Chávez Frías (born 3 July 1958) is a Venezuelan politician who served as Governor of Barinas state from 2016 to 2021. He is one of the brothers of the former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez.

He was secretary of the Barinas state government when his father, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, was the governor from 1998 to 2008. In 2011, he was appointed Vice Minister of Electrical Development of the Ministry of Popular Power for Electric Power.

He has a daughter: Laura Alejandra Chávez Contreras, born on February 23, 1984. On January 24, 1999, he married the lawyer Belkis Del Pilar Quintero Infante (1969), with whom he has a son: Argenis De Jesús, born on the 19th. September 2002.