In he became the first Venezuelan president to be forced out of the office by the Supreme Court, for the embezzlement of bolívars belonging to a presidential discretionary fund.

The petitioners appealed to the Electoral Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court.

" His repeated negationist statements on the topic of Nazi genocide brought Degrelle to trial with Violeta Friedmann, a Romanian-born Venezuelan survivor of the camps ; although the lower courts were initially favourable to Degrelle, the Supreme Court of Spain decided that he had brought offence to the memory of the victims, both Jews and non-Jews, and it sentenced him to pay a substantial fine.

* The Indian Court, led by María Lionza and composed of many Venezuelan Indian chiefs.

* The Court of the Juans made up by a number of figures belonging to Venezuelan folklore.

* The Black and African Court, led by popular black figures of Venezuelan history such as La Negra Matea ( who was a slave to the Bolivars and nanny of Simón Bolívar ), and El Negro Primero ( Pedro Camejo ) who was known as Negro Primero because he was black and also among the first to go into combat.

On August 8, 1985, Venezuelan judge Alberto Perez Marcano of the 11th Penal Court convicted Lugo and Ricardo, sentencing them each to 20 years in prison.

Mount Roraima, on the Venezuelan border, is part of the Pakaraima range and, at 2, 762 meters, is Guyana's tallest peak.

The daughter of an undertaker, Luis López, Adamari started her career at the age of six in the Telemundo Canal 2 production of the Cristina Bazán soap opera, alongside legendary Puerto Rican actress Johanna Rosaly and Venezuelan singer José Luis Rodríguez, El Puma.

Garcés played for the Venezuelan Professional Winter League in 2006, finishing 3 – 1 with 11 saves and a 2. 31 ERA in 24 appearances for the Aguilas del Zulia.

North Bay Village's Venezuelan community had the fifth highest percentage of residents, which was at 2. 15 % of the population.

The highest point in the shield is Pico da Neblina in Brazil ( next to the Venezuelan border ) at 2, 994 m ( 9, 822 ft ).

A national congress on 19 April 1997 took from 9 am until 2 am the next day to reach a conclusion, ultimately deciding to launch Chávez ' candidacy for the Venezuelan presidential election, 1998.

The Colonia Tovar is at almost 2, 200 m in the central coastal mountains of the Venezuelan Coastal Range.

Prevail mountain landscapes of misty appearance characteristic of the Venezuelan Coastal Range ( an mountainous alignment against the Venezuelan coast of the Caribbean Sea ), which is the greater height of Aragua state, the Codazzi peak of 2, 429 meters, located north of the town.

Bello is featured on the old 2, 000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20, 000 Chilean peso notes.

In January 2007 America Movil bought the Verizon operations in Puerto Rico, and days later Telmex and America Movil announced that their equally-owned joint venture had agreed with Verizon Communications Inc. (“ Verizon ”) to terminate the joint venture ’ s agreement to acquire Verizon ’ s indirect equity interests in Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela ( CANTV ); subsequently, all of Verizon's holdings in CANTV were acquired in May 2007 by the Venezuelan government, reaching 86. 2 % of its total shares.

The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: An Historical Examination, Volume 2: The Later Years 1973 – 2004.

Bolívar proclaimed the restoration of the Venezuelan Republic and in two decrees of June 2 and July 16 declared the freedom of slaves conditional on their joining the republican forces.

* June 2 – During the Porteñazo revolt of the Venezuelan Marine Corps against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack marine corps positions at Puerto Cabello.

Humberto Quintero kin-TAIR-o ( born August 2, 1979 ) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

On August 15, 2001, Carrara combined with fellow Venezuelan pitchers Omar Daal, Kelvim Escobar, and Freddy García to win their respective starts: Carrara, of the Dodgers, facing Montreal, 13 – 1 ; Daal, in a Phillies victory over the Brewers, 8 – 6 ; Escobar, of the Blue Jays, over Oakland, 5 – 2, and García, of Seattle, against the Red Sox, 6 – 2.

Melvin Mora ( born February 2, 1972 in Agua Negra, Yaracuý State, Venezuela ), affectionately nicknamed Melmo or Melvy, is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder who is currently a free-agent.

In August 2003, about 3. 2 million signatures were presented by Súmate, a Venezuelan volunteer civil association, founded in 2002 by a group of Venezuelan citizens.

In the Venezuelan presidential election of 1998, Hugo Chávez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote ( 56. 2 %) since 1983, when Jaime Lusinchi won with 58. 4 % of the vote.

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire ( 2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969 ) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

José Omar Pastoriza ( born on 23 May 1942 in Rosario-died on 2 August 2004 in Buenos Aires ) was a football midfielder for Independiente, AS Monaco, and the Argentina national football team, as well as manager for many teams including the Venezuelan national team.

In October 2005, the Venezuelan prosecution asked for a sentence of six years for 57 to 62 of the alleged paramilitaries, while desisting to condemn between 38 and 43 of the men, which were considered to have been led to Venezuela under false pretenses and / or had apparently suffered mistreatment from the alleged coup plotters.

His most recognized works are: The Aguinaldo Que Navidad part of the Venezuelan Christmas repertoire and interpreted by the mezzosoprano Morella Muñoz, Cantata infantil Simón Bolívar, Misa de Mi Tierra among others.

This fact was not overlooked by Santo Domingo Audience civil servants in connection to his visits to Venezuelan ports: In the year 65 [...] recorded in 1567 [...] there was such a coaster named Juan de Aquines, Englishman [...] with enough goods and 300 to 400 slaves product of his raids in Guinea territory [...] In the Province of Venezuela quite a few slaves and merchandise were rescued from this Englisman and others such as Frenchmen and Portuguese who were accustomed to this kind of activities ...

" The South End's range of restaurants include American southern " Low Country ", French, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Indian, Italian, Venezuelan, African, Peruvian, Latin American, Thai, and Japanese among others.

His government was responsible for the creation of the modern currency ( bolívar ), the restoration of the national anthem, the second national census, the railroad between Caracas and La Guaira, the foundation of the Venezuelan Academy of the Language, the telephone service between Caracas and La Guaira, promotion of agriculture and education ( Decree of Public and Obligatory Instruction of 1870 ), stimulus to commerce, and important public works ( the National Pantheon, the Capitol, and the Municipal Theater, among others.

Gallegos was a highly prestigious writer, the author of the iconic novel, Doña Bárbara ( 1929 ), among several others, while Andrés Eloy Blanco was a celebrated Venezuelan poet and a witty humoristic writer.

For the next several years, he continued to make major international hits such as La Usurpadora and La Intrusa with Venezuelan actress Gaby Spanic, and Siempre te Amare, among others.

Other great architects are Fruto Vivas disciple of Carlos Raúl Villanueva who designed Culb Táchira, the Venezuelan Flower in Barquisimeto among others and Oscar Tenreriro, modernist in his style.

The Ley de Tierras — " Law of the Lands " — was passed by presidential decree in November 2001 ; it included the creation of Plan Zamora to implement land reforms, including redistribution, in Venezuelan agriculture.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.

Nearly half of Venezuela's geographic area lies south of the Orinoco River ; however, this region contains only 5 % of the Venezuelan population.

The Venezuelan economy shrank 5. 8 percent in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year and now has the highest inflation rate in Latin America ( 30. 5 %).

In 2009 the Venezuelan government approved $ 46. 5 million for an agricultural development project with Vietnam.

* January 5 – Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet ( d. 2001 )

Chicago White Sox General Manager Frank Lane, on the recommendation of fellow Venezuelan shortstop Chico Carrasquel, then signed Aparicio for $ 5, 000 down and $ 5, 000 in first year salary.

once in Caracas it was transported to the Headquarters of AD, where over 5, 000 people waited to see the hearse and the casket covered with the Venezuelan flag.

On July 5, 1811, seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence.

* May 4 – 5 – During the Carupanazo revolt against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack rebel positions at Carúpano.

Maturín ( as a part of the Province of Cumaná ) was on the republican side during the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence on July 5, 1811.

He is listed in major league records as having been born on June 30, 1931, in Cabimas, Venezuela ( Venezuelan baseball official resources indicate July 5, 1928 ).

The plan was created for several pressing reasons: to stimulate the agricultural sector in Venezuela in order to provide food security to the country ( the only net food importer in Latin America ) and more economic activity, to break up the concentrated economic power of the latifundios ( 75-80 % of land owned by 5 % of landowners, 2 % owned 60 % of farmland ; 60 % of agricultors do not possess any land ) and redistribute wealth to the poor in Venezuela, and to discourage urbanization, which creates heavy burdens on city services in the slums of Caracas and other Venezuelan cities.

Subsequently, Vélez had defeated Uruguayan Defensor Sporting in the round of 16 ( 1 – 1 and 0 – 0, 4 – 3 in penalties ), Venezuelan Minervén in the quarter finals ( 0 – 0 and 2 – 0 ) and Colombian Junior in the semifinals ( 1 – 2 and 2 – 1, 5 – 4 in penalties ).

In 1811, during the Venezuelan Independence War, La Casa Fuerte (), a building near the centre of town, located on the Avenida 5 de Julio set the scene for the period.

The Apure's drainage area thus includes the slopes of both the Colombian ( less than 0, 5 % of its total area ) and the Venezuelan Andes.

Also, new institutions were established: the National Pedagogical Institute, the National Office of Labour, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Communications, the Venezuelan Child Council, the Industrial Bank, the National Office of Currency, the National Office of Export Control, and, finally, already in 1940, the Central Bank of Venezuela ; also, enacted was an Act of Government that ended with the signing of the " Treaty of Limits with Colombia ", on 5 April 1941, by means of which Venezuela lost 108, 000 km² in territory.

Wolfgang Enrique Larrazábal Ugueto ( 5 March 1911 – 27 February 2003 ), commander of the Venezuelan Navy, became President of Venezuela following the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958.

The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by a congress of Venezuelan provinces on July 5, 1811, through which Venezuelans made the decision to break away from the Spanish Crown in order to establish a new nation based on the premises of equality of individuals, abolition of censorship and dedication to freedom of expression.

The anthem was first played on July 5 of that year, in the anniversary of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, at the Bolìvar Square of Valencia.