* 2012 – A primary election is held in Venezuela to choose the contendent against Hugo Chávez, the then current president of Venezuela.

* 1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.

Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela.

On 1950, Venezuela was the world's 4th largest wealthiest nation per capita However, from 1958 / 1959 onward, Romulo Betancourt ( president from 1959 to 1964 ) inherited an enormous internal and external debt caused by rampant public spending during the dictatorship.

* 2002 Venezuelan coup d ' état attempt – a failed military coup d ' état on April 11, 2002, which aimed to overthrow the president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez.

* December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.

* November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta.

* October 18 – Isaías Medina Angarita, president of Venezuela, is overthrown by a military coup.

* September 7, 1821 – The Republic of Gran Colombia ( a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador ) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

* September 7 – The Republic of Gran Colombia ( a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador ) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

On September 7, 1821 the Gran Colombia ( a state covering much of modern Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, northern Peru, and northwest of Brazil ) was created, with Bolívar as president and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

created a stir when it issued a press release praising the attempted overthrow of Hugo Chávez, the elected president of Venezuela and a confrontational populist, who, like Mr. Aristide, was seen as a threat by some in Washington.

Just before the election, an email was released revealing that the socialist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, had given financial support to Humala's 2006 campaign.

On May 27, 1987, The president Jaime Lusinchi, Venevisión begin broadcast license in Venezuela on 20 years.

During Gray's tenure as president, the company greatly expanded its international business through arrangements with companies in Ireland, England, Canada and Venezuela.

Sáez was received in the International Airport Simón Bolívar by former president of Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins and he gave her a chain of gold for her victory in Miss Universe.

After oil prices slumped at around $ 15 a barrel in the late 1990s, concerted diplomacy, sometimes attributed to Venezuela ’ s president Hugo Chávez, achieved a coordinated scaling back of oil production beginning in 1998.

Kirchner's increasing alignment with Hugo Chávez became evident when during a visit to Venezuela on July 2006 he attended a military parade alongside Bolivian president Evo Morales.

In quick succession he is designated as military and civilian chief of Guarico in 1871, second appointed of the Presidency of Venezuela in 1873, president of Guarico state in 1874, and, between 1876 until 1877, minister of war and navy.

On 14 April 1884 Crespo was elected president of Venezuela by the Federal Council.

The “ Bolivarian Revolution ” refers to a leftist social movement and political process in Venezuela led by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement ( replaced by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in 2007 ).

* 1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan military officer and politician, President of Venezuela

* Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 or MBR-200, a leftist political movement founded by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.

Cuba has allied itself with the popular radical socialist politics of Bolivarianism as supported by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

* Hugo Chávez returns to power in Venezuela.

President Hugo Chavez has expressed optimism that Venezuela will soon emerge from recession, despite the International Monetary Fund forecasts showing that Venezuela will be the only country in the region to remain in recession this year.

Venezuela has a limited national railway system, which has no active rail connections to other countries ; the government of Hugo Chávez has invested substantially in expanding it.

However with the election of Hugo Chávez as President of Venezuela in 1998, the foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government has differed substantially from that of previous Venezuelan governments.

* February 2 – Hugo Chávez becomes President of Venezuela.

These governments include those of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela since 1999, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Evo Morales in Bolivia.

* December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.

* February 4 – In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez leads an unsuccessful coup attempt against President of Venezuela Carlos Andrés Pérez.

* President Hugo Chávez ( Venezuela )

In addition, Benetton released an advertisement that displayed President Barack Obama of the United States and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela kissing.

In recent years, with deep economic and social crisis provoked by neoliberal policies, the right wing lost appeal in the region ( with the major exception being Colombia ) and the election of a sequence of left wing presidents began with Hugo Chávez ' victory on the 1998 presidential election in Venezuela.

* 1998: Hugo Chávez, Venezuela

On January 2008, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez set up a commission to investigate theories that Bolívar was the victim of an assassination.

The ' Bolivarianism ' of the last two decades, such as in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez, tries to evoke the memory of Bolívar, using a left-wing view of his writings and supposed ambitions as the basis for a political movement.

Under Chávez, Venezuela has also instituted worker-run " co-management " initiatives in which workers ' councils play a key role in the management of a plant or factory.

Poverty in Venezuela increased during the 1980s and 1990s but has decreased during the Chávez presidency, with the exception of the troubled years 2002 and 2003.

" The head of the Institute for Press and Society in Venezuela said that " here you had the convergence in the media of two things: grave journalistic errors-to the extreme of silencing information on the most important news events-and taking political positions to the extreme of advocating a nondemocratic, insurrectional path.

In addition to these communities, Roman Catholic-professing communities who are descendants of Crypto-Jews are said to exist in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and in various other Spanish-speaking countries of South America, such as Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador.

Former Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt said in his book Venezuela: Oil and Politics that "(...) Gomez was something more than a local despot, he was the instrument of foreign control of the Venezuelan economy, the ally and servant of powerful outside interests.

The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.

Glover said: "... the threat of what happens to Haiti is a threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations ... they're all in peril because of global warming ... because of climate change ... when we did what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens ..." In the same statement, he called for a new form of international partnership with Haiti and other Caribbean nations and praised Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba, for already accepting this partnership.

Charrière's 1970 best-selling book Papillon, which Papillon said was " 75 percent true ," details his alleged numerous escapes, attempted escapes, adventures and recaptures, from his imprisonment in 1932 to his final escape to Venezuela.

" Pérez's relatives in Miami said that Pérez would be buried in Miami and that they have no intention of returning his remains to Venezuela until Chávez is no longer in office.

Donnelly said that he believed the event was a setback for communist propagandists in Venezuela.

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His grandmother was Maria de los Angeles Gonzalez, said to be the daughter of a Cacique Chief from Valencia Venezuela.

After that second meeting Vásquez de Armas said he collected 12kg of C4 plastic explosive in Panama and transported it to Venezuela.

The Caribbean basin as a region may be said to have its origins in the migrations of the Caribs from the Orinoco Valley in modern Venezuela into the Caribbean Sea beginning around 1200, which created an intercommunicating zone that connected places as far north as Puerto Rico, Hispaniola ( modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic ) and Jamaica to the mid reaches of the Orinoco River.

Later, when Vanessa was about to leave for Venezuela, Dinah and Ross said their goodbyes and mother and daughter finally reunited.

It is also said that is the spiritual capital of Venezuela, and it is recognizable for its tourism, and where many events take place.

On August 6, 2010 in the framework of the macro national business conference, the Deputy Minister of Tourism Oscar Rueda said that studies a direct international flight to counteract the effects of the crisis in neighboring Venezuela.