
José Luis "El Puma" Rodríguez González (born 14 January 1943) was a Venezuelan singer, actor, and businessman. Born in Caracas to a Canarian father and a Venezuelan housewife, he lost his father at a young age and was raised in Ecuador by his mother, who was exiled for opposing Marcos Perez Jimenez's dictatorship and being an Accion Democratica activist. He represented Venezuela at the 1974 OTI Festival in Acapulco and became a famous singer during the 1970s and 1980s, also entering the world of television acting.
Rodriguez, like his mother, was politically active. In 2017, he declared that "demons rule(d)" in Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro's socialist dictatorship, as people were dying of hunger, and there were no jobs or medicines. He rarely returned to Venezuela since filming a soap opera there in the 1990s. During the 1980s, he supported the re-election of Carlos Andres Perez as President of Venezuela, calling it an "investment in democracy."