Career
He was elected to the Venezuelan Senate in the 1998 elections, becoming its President before the Senate was removed by the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela. Davila was interior minister of Venezuela until February 2001, when he moved to become foreign minister, being replaced as Interior Minister by Luis Miquilena. He was replaced as foreign minister by Roy Chaderton in May 2002, having briefly been replaced by José Rodríguez Iturbe in 2002.
In the Venezuelan regional elections, 2008 he stood as an independent, gaining less than 1% of the vote.
