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The Republic of Venezuela was a democratic republic first established in 1953, and replaced in 1999 by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela saw ten years of military dictatorship from 1948 to 1958. After the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état brought an end to a three-year experiment in democracy ( Spanish: El Trienio Adeco ), a ...
The coat of arms was established in the Law of the National Flag, Shield and Anthem ( Ley de Bandera, Escudo e Himno Nacionales ), passed on February 17, 1954, by the military governor of Venezuela, Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The shield is divided in the colors of the national flag. In the dexter chief, on a red field, wheat represents the union ...
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states ( Spanish: estados ), a Capital District ( Spanish: Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies ( Spanish: Dependencias Federales ), which consist of many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. [1] Venezuela claims the disputed Essequibo territory as one of ...
A navy blue field charged with an anchor with seven five-pointed stars in an arc above it. The current eight-star flag of Venezuela was introduced in 2006. The basic design includes a horizontal tricolour of yellow, blue, and red, dating to the original flag introduced in 1811, in the Venezuelan War of Independence .
History of Venezuela. Since 2 February 1999, Venezuela saw sweeping and radical shifts in social policy, moving away from the last government's officially embracing a free-market economy and liberalization reform principles and towards income redistribution and social welfare programs. Then- President Hugo Chávez dramatically shifted Venezuela ...
Venezuela (amtlich Bolivarische Republik Venezuela, spanisch República Bolivariana de Venezuela [venezolanische Aussprache reˈpuβlika βoliβaˈɾjana ðe βeneˈswela]) ist ein südamerikanischer Staat an der Karibikküste. Er grenzt im Süden an Brasilien, im Westen an Kolumbien und im Osten an Guyana. Venezuela wurde 1811 von Spanien ...
The Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region, also known as Esequibo or Guayana Esequiba in Spanish ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈʝana eseˈkiβa] ⓘ ), [1] a 159,500 km 2 (61,600 sq mi) area west of the Essequibo River.
