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Available in 269 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-269" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">269 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A8n%C3%A8zu%C3%A8la" title="Vènèzuèla – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="Vènèzuèla" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbd mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8D" title="Венесуелэ – Kabardian" lang="kbd" hreflang="kbd" data-title="Венесуелэ" data-language-autonym="Адыгэбзэ" data-language-local-name="Kabardian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгэбзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ady mw-list-item"><a href="https://ady.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8D" title="Венесуэлэ – Adyghe" lang="ady" hreflang="ady" data-title="Венесуэлэ" data-language-autonym="Адыгабзэ" data-language-local-name="Adyghe" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгабзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%AC%E1%8A%94%E1%8B%9D%E1%8B%8C%E1%88%8B" title="ቬኔዝዌላ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ቬኔዝዌላ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेजुएला – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="वेनेजुएला" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feneswela" title="Feneswela – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Feneswela" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуела – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="Венесуела" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Аԥсшәа</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7" title="فنزويلا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="فنزويلا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DC%92%DC%A2%DC%99%DC%98%DC%9D%DC%A0%DC%90" title="ܒܢܙܘܝܠܐ – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="ܒܢܙܘܝܠܐ" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ܐܪܡܝܐ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%A6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A1" title="Վենեզուելա – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Վենեզուելա" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A8n%C3%A8%C3%A7u%C3%A8la" title="Vènèçuèla – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Vènèçuèla" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेज़ुएला – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="वेनेज़ुएला" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अवधी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesu%C3%A9la" title="Venesuéla – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Venesuéla" data-language-autonym="Avañe&#039;ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%C3%AFxwila" title="Winïxwila – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Winïxwila" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ونزوئلا – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ونزوئلا" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9n%C3%A9zu%C3%A9la" title="Vénézuéla – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Vénézuéla" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bm mw-list-item"><a href="https://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Bambara" lang="bm" hreflang="bm" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Bamanankan" data-language-local-name="Bambara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bamanankan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE" title="ভেনেজুয়েলা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ভেনেজুয়েলা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Вэнэсуэла – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Вэнэсуэла" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेजुएला – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="वेनेजुएला" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesuela" title="Benesuela – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Benesuela" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneswela" title="Veneswela – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Veneswela" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bislama</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венецуела – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Венецуела" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%9D%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9F%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8D" title="ཝེ་ནེ་ཟུའེ་ལ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཝེ་ནེ་ཟུའེ་ལ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venecuela" title="Venecuela – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Venecuela" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8D" title="Венесуэлэ – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Венесуэлэ" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vene%C3%A7uela" title="Veneçuela – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Veneçuela" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ch mw-list-item"><a href="https://ch.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Chamorro" lang="ch" hreflang="ch" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Chamoru" data-language-local-name="Chamorro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chamoru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feneswela" title="Feneswela – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Feneswela" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ڤينيزويلا – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="ڤينيزويلا" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%88%DE%AC%DE%82%DE%AC%DE%92%DE%AA%DE%87%DE%AD%DE%8D%DE%A7" title="ވެނެޒުއޭލާ – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ވެނެޒުއޭލާ" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1%C5%82k%C3%A1%C3%A1%CA%BC_Bighan_Dine%CA%BC%C3%A9_Bik%C3%A9yah" title="Táłkááʼ Bighan Dineʼé Bikéyah – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Táłkááʼ Bighan Dineʼé Bikéyah" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Diné bizaad</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="भेनेजुयला – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="भेनेजुयला" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>डोटेली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%B6%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B1" title="Βενεζουέλα – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βενεζουέλα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venes%C3%BCela" title="Venesüela – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Venesüela" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelo" title="Venezuelo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Venezuelo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vene%C3%A7uela" title="Veneçuela – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Veneçuela" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ee mw-list-item"><a href="https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Ewe" lang="ee" hreflang="ee" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Eʋegbe" data-language-local-name="Ewe" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eʋegbe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ونزوئلا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ونزوئلا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenezu%C3%ABla" title="Fenezuëla – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Fenezuëla" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ff mw-list-item"><a href="https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenesuwela" title="Wenesuwela – Fula" lang="ff" hreflang="ff" data-title="Wenesuwela" data-language-autonym="Fulfulde" data-language-local-name="Fula" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fulfulde</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veinis%C3%A9ala" title="Veiniséala – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Veiniséala" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_Veneswaaley" title="Yn Veneswaaley – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Yn Veneswaaley" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%27_Bheiniseala" title="A&#039; Bheiniseala – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="A&#039; Bheiniseala" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ГӀалгӀай</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B5%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%9D%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%8F%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%BE" title="વેનેઝુએલા – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="વેનેઝુએલા" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-got mw-list-item"><a href="https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%86%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8C%BE%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%85%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8D%83" title="𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 – Gothic" lang="got" hreflang="got" data-title="𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃" data-language-autonym="𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺" data-language-local-name="Gothic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9D%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="व्हेनेझुएला – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="व्हेनेझुएला" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A0%EB%84%A4%EC%88%98%EC%97%98%EB%9D%BC" title="베네수엘라 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="베네수엘라" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenekola" title="Wenekola – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="Wenekola" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A1" title="Վենեսուելա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վենեսուելա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेज़ुएला – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="वेनेज़ुएला" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Igbo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE" title="ভেনেজুয়েলা – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="ভেনেজুয়েলা" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%C3%A6" title="Венесуэлæ – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Венесуэлæ" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiZulu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venes%C3%BAela" title="Venesúela – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Venesúela" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%94" title="ונצואלה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ונצואלה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenezuyeelaa" title="Fenezuyeelaa – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Fenezuyeelaa" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kabɩyɛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B5%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BE" title="ವೆನೆಜುವೆಲಾ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ವೆನೆಜುವೆಲಾ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesuela" title="Benesuela – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Benesuela" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90" title="ვენესუელა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვენესუელა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%8E%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%97%DB%8C%D9%90%D9%84%D8%A7" title="وینَزوٗیِلا – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="وینَزوٗیِلا" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenezuelsk%C3%B4" title="Wenezuelskô – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="Wenezuelskô" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezwela" title="Venezwela – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Venezwela" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuwela" title="Venezuwela – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Venezuwela" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikinyarwanda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rn mw-list-item"><a href="https://rn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Rundi" lang="rn" hreflang="rn" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ikirundi" data-language-local-name="Rundi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikirundi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneswela" title="Beneswela – Kongo" lang="kg" hreflang="kg" data-title="Beneswela" data-language-autonym="Kongo" data-language-local-name="Kongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezwela" title="Venezwela – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Venezwela" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9n%C3%A9zw%C3%A9la" title="Vénézwéla – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Vénézwéla" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9B%E0%BA%B0%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%97%E0%BA%94%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%A7%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%99%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%B8%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B2" title="ປະເທດເວເນຊຸເອລາ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ປະເທດເວເນຊຸເອລາ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ltg mw-list-item"><a href="https://ltg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venecuela" title="Venecuela – Latgalian" lang="ltg" hreflang="ltg" data-title="Venecuela" data-language-autonym="Latgaļu" data-language-local-name="Latgalian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latgaļu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetiola" title="Venetiola – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Venetiola" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venecu%C4%93la" title="Venecuēla – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Venecuēla" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezwela" title="Venezwela – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Venezwela" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/benesuel" title="benesuel – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="benesuel" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>La .lojban.</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mad mw-list-item"><a href="https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Madurese" lang="mad" hreflang="mad" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Madhurâ" data-language-local-name="Madurese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Madhurâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="भेनेजुएला – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="भेनेजुएला" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венецуела – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Венецуела" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezoela" title="Venezoela – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Venezoela" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B2" title="വെനസ്വേല – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വെനസ്വേല" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vene%C5%BCwela" title="Veneżwela – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Veneżwela" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weneh%C5%ABera" title="Wenehūera – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Wenehūera" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9D%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="व्हेनेझुएला – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="व्हेनेझुएला" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90" title="ვენესუელა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ვენესუელა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ڤينيزويلا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ڤينيزويلا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ونزوئلا – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="ونزوئلا" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%9A%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%85%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%93%EA%AF%A8%EA%AF%91%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%82%EA%AF%A5" title="ꯚꯦꯅꯦꯓꯨꯑꯦꯂꯥ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯚꯦꯅꯦꯓꯨꯑꯦꯂꯥ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benezuela" title="Benezuela – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Benezuela" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8D%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Вэнэзуэла – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Вэнэзуэла" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB" title="Венесуэл – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Венесуэл" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%97%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%AE%E1%80%87%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B2%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6" title="ဗင်နီဇွဲလားနိုင်ငံ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဗင်နီဇွဲလားနိုင်ငံ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://fj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Na Vosa Vakaviti" data-language-local-name="Fijian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nedersaksies</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="भेनेजुएला – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="भेनेजुएला" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="भेनेजुएला – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="भेनेजुएला" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%8D%E3%82%BA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9" title="ベネズエラ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ベネズエラ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weenesuela" title="Weenesuela – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Weenesuela" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pih mw-list-item"><a href="https://pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenezuela" title="Wenezuela – Norfuk / Pitkern" lang="pih" hreflang="pih" data-title="Wenezuela" data-language-autonym="Norfuk / Pitkern" data-language-local-name="Norfuk / Pitkern" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norfuk / Pitkern</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9n%C3%A9zu%C3%A9la" title="Vénézuéla – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Vénézuéla" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Novial</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vene%C3%A7u%C3%A8la" title="Veneçuèla – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Veneçuèla" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezu%E2%80%99eelaa" title="Venezu’eelaa – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Venezu’eelaa" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE" title="ਵੈਨੇਜ਼ੁਐਲਾ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਵੈਨੇਜ਼ੁਐਲਾ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेज्वेला – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="वेनेज्वेला" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>पालि</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Pangasinan" data-language-local-name="Pangasinan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangasinan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangcah</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7" title="وینزویلا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="وینزویلا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%90%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%90%D9%84%D8%A7" title="وېنزوېلا – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="وېنزوېلا" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venizuela" title="Venizuela – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Venizuela" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%9C%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%8E%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%9F%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%99%E1%9E%A2%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%A1%E1%9E%B6" title="វេណេស៊ុយអេឡា – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="វេណេស៊ុយអេឡា" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcd mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Picard" lang="pcd" hreflang="pcd" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Picard" data-language-local-name="Picard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Picard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venessuela" title="Venessuela – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Venessuela" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuwela" title="Venesuwela – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="Venesuwela" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tok Pisin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenezuela" title="Wenezuela – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wenezuela" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rmy mw-list-item"><a href="https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Vlax Romani" lang="rmy" hreflang="rmy" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Romani čhib" data-language-local-name="Vlax Romani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Romani čhib</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Rumantsch" data-language-local-name="Romansh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Rumantsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winisuyla" title="Winisuyla – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Winisuyla" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5c%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венеcуела – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Венеcуела" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagana Samoa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="वेनेजुयेला – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="वेनेजुयेला" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%AD%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%9F" title="ᱵᱷᱮᱱᱮᱡᱩᱭᱮᱞᱟ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱵᱷᱮᱱᱮᱡᱩᱭᱮᱞᱟ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Seediq" data-language-local-name="Taroko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seediq</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezzuela" title="Venezzuela – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Venezzuela" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80" title="වෙනිසියුලාව – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="වෙනිසියුලාව" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7" title="وينيزويلا – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="وينيزويلا" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynezuela" title="Wynezuela – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Wynezuela" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanansuwela" title="Fanansuwela – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Fanansuwela" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%DB%8E%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8E%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ڤێنیزوێلا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ڤێنیزوێلا" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a href="https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venswelikondre" title="Venswelikondre – Sranan Tongo" lang="srn" hreflang="srn" data-title="Venswelikondre" data-language-autonym="Sranantongo" data-language-local-name="Sranan Tongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sranantongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венецуела – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Венецуела" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9n%C3%A9zu%C3%A9la" title="Vénézuéla – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Vénézuéla" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE" title="வெனிசுவேலா – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="வெனிசுவேலா" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taqbaylit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-tara mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Tarantino" lang="nap-x-tara" hreflang="nap-x-tara" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Tarandíne" data-language-local-name="Tarantino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tarandíne</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B0%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9D%E1%82%84%E1%82%87%E1%81%BC%E1%80%B1%E1%82%87%E1%81%B8%E1%80%BD%E1%82%86%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9C%E1%82%83%E1%80%B8" title="မိူင်းဝႄႇၼေႇၸွႆးလႃး – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="မိူင်းဝႄႇၼေႇၸွႆးလႃး" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Tayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Tayal" data-language-local-name="Tayal" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tayal</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE" title="వెనుజ్వేలా – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="వెనుజ్వేలా" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tet mw-list-item"><a href="https://tet.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Tetum" lang="tet" hreflang="tet" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Tetun" data-language-local-name="Tetum" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tetun</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B8%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2" title="ประเทศเวเนซุเอลา – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ประเทศเวเนซุเอลา" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ti mw-list-item"><a href="https://ti.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%89%AC%E1%8A%94%E1%8B%9D%E1%8B%8C%E1%88%8B" title="ቬኔዝዌላ – Tigrinya" lang="ti" hreflang="ti" data-title="ቬኔዝዌላ" data-language-autonym="ትግርኛ" data-language-local-name="Tigrinya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ትግርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-to mw-list-item"><a href="https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuela" title="Venesuela – Tongan" lang="to" hreflang="to" data-title="Venesuela" data-language-autonym="Lea faka-Tonga" data-language-local-name="Tongan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lea faka-Tonga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8F%AA%E1%8F%81%E1%8F%91%E1%8F%AA%E1%8E%B3" title="ᏪᏁᏑᏪᎳ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="ᏪᏁᏑᏪᎳ" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᏣᎳᎩ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenesuela" title="Wenesuela – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Wenesuela" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kcg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kcg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezwela" title="Venezwela – Tyap" lang="kcg" hreflang="kcg" data-title="Venezwela" data-language-autonym="Tyap" data-language-local-name="Tyap" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tyap</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуэла – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Венесуэла" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Удмурт</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Венесуела – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Венесуела" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7" title="وینیزویلا – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="وینیزویلا" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8B%DB%90%D9%86%DB%90%D8%B3%DB%87%D8%A6%DB%90%D9%84%D8%A7" title="ۋېنېسۇئېلا – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="ۋېنېسۇئېلا" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veijneisuilah" title="Veijneisuilah – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Veijneisuilah" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vahcuengh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesue%C5%82a" title="Venesueła – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Venesueła" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venesuel" title="Venesuel – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Venesuel" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Venezuela" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" 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title="Spain">Spain</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;<a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Venezuelan Declaration of Independence">Declared</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">5 July 1811</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;<span class="nowrap">from <a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Gran Colombia</a></span> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">13 January 1830</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;Recognized </div></th><td class="infobox-data">29 March 1845</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">•&#160;<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Current constitution</a></span> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">20 December 1999<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Venezuela" title="Geography of Venezuela">Area </a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">•&#160;Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">916,445<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span 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class="tmp-color" style="color:orange">medium</span></span>&#160;(<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">119th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar" title="Venezuelan bolívar">Venezuelan bolívar</a> (official) <br /> <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">United States dollar</a> (de facto recognised, unofficial)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>−4</span> (<a href="/wiki/Time_in_Venezuela" title="Time in Venezuela">VET</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date format</th><td class="infobox-data">dd/mm/yyyy (<a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_namenone"><a href="#ref_namenone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> The "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" has been the full official title since the adoption of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution of 1999</a>, when the state was renamed in honor of <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a>.</li><li value="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_languagesnone"><a href="#ref_languagesnone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> The Constitution also recognizes all <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">indigenous languages</a> spoken in the country.</li><li value="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_groupsnone"><a href="#ref_groupsnone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> Some important subgroups include those of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Venezuelan">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese Venezuelan">Portuguese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italo-Venezuelans" class="mw-redirect" title="Italo-Venezuelans">Italian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Venezuela" title="Indigenous peoples in Venezuela">Amerindian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afro-Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="Afro-Venezuelan">African</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arab_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab Venezuelan">Arab</a> and <a href="/wiki/German_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="German Venezuelan">German</a> descent.</li><li value="4"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_areanone"><a href="#ref_areanone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> Area totals include only Venezuelan-administered territory.</li><li value="5"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_currencynone"><a href="#ref_currencynone"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> On 1 October 2021, a new bolivar was introduced, the <i>Bolívar digital</i> (ISO 4217 code VED) worth 1,000,000 VES.</li> </ol></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Venezuela</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> officially the <b>Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is a country on the northern coast of <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>, consisting of a <a href="/wiki/Continent" title="Continent">continental</a> landmass and many <a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">islands and islets</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a>. It comprises an area of 916,445&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (353,841&#160;sq&#160;mi), and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a>. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, on the west by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> on the south, <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a> to the north-east and on the east by <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a>. Venezuela is a <a href="/wiki/Presidential_republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential republic">presidential republic</a> consisting of <a href="/wiki/States_of_Venezuela" title="States of Venezuela">23 states</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Capital_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Capital District">Capital District</a> and <a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">federal dependencies</a> covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America;<sup id="cite_ref-encartaSA_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encartaSA-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNpopstats_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNpopstats-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg/220px-All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg/330px-All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg/440px-All_Venezuela_in_three_parts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2777" data-file-height="1792" /></a><figcaption>Pictorial map of Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>The territory of Venezuela was <a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas">colonized by Spain</a> in 1522 amid resistance from Indigenous peoples. In 1811, it became one of the first Spanish-American territories to <a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Venezuela" title="First Republic of Venezuela">declare independence</a> from the Spanish and to form part of the first federal Republic of Colombia (<a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Gran Colombia</a>). It separated as a full sovereign country in 1830. During the 19th century, Venezuela suffered political turmoil and autocracy, remaining dominated by regional <a href="/wiki/Caudillo" title="Caudillo">military dictators</a> until the mid-20th century. From 1958, the country had a series of democratic governments, as an exception where most of the region was ruled by military dictatorships, and the period was characterized by economic prosperity. </p><p>Economic shocks in the <a href="/wiki/1980s_oil_glut" title="1980s oil glut">1980s</a> and 1990s led to major political crises and widespread social unrest, including the deadly <a href="/wiki/Caracazo" title="Caracazo">Caracazo</a> riots of 1989, <a href="/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempts" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempts">two attempted coups in 1992</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez#Impeachment" title="Carlos Andrés Pérez">impeachment of a President</a> for embezzlement of public funds charges in 1993. The collapse in confidence in the existing parties saw the <a href="/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="1998 Venezuelan presidential election">1998 Venezuelan presidential election</a>, the catalyst for the <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a>, which began with a <a href="/wiki/1999_Constituent_Assembly_of_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela">1999 Constituent Assembly</a>, where a new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution of Venezuela</a> was imposed. The government's <a href="/wiki/Populist" class="mw-redirect" title="Populist">populist</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Social welfare">social welfare</a> policies were bolstered by soaring oil prices,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> temporarily increasing social spending,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and reducing <a href="/wiki/Economic_inequality" title="Economic inequality">economic inequality</a> and poverty in the early years of the regime.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, poverty began to rapidly increase in the 2010s.<sup id="cite_ref-UN_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election">2013 Venezuelan presidential election</a> was widely disputed leading to <a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election_protests" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests">widespread protest</a>, which triggered another nationwide <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">crisis</a> that continues to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has experienced <a href="/wiki/Democratic_backsliding" title="Democratic backsliding">democratic backsliding</a>, shifting into an <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarian state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Isidoro_LosadaBitar_Deeb2022_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Isidoro_LosadaBitar_Deeb2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It <a href="/wiki/International_rankings_of_Venezuela" title="International rankings of Venezuela">ranks</a> low in international measurements of <a href="/wiki/Media_freedom_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Media freedom in Venezuela">freedom of the press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela" title="Human rights in Venezuela">civil liberties</a> and has high levels of perceived <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">corruption</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Human_Rights_Watch_2021_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_2021-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela is a developing country having the world's <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves" title="List of countries by proven oil reserves">largest known oil reserves</a> and has been one of the world's leading <a href="/wiki/Oil_exporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil exporter">exporters of oil</a>. Previously, the country was an underdeveloped exporter of agricultural commodities such as coffee and cocoa, but oil quickly came to dominate exports and government revenues. The excesses and poor policies of the incumbent government led to the collapse of Venezuela's entire economy.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ELPAISfeb2015_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAISfeb2015-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The country struggles with record <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela" title="Hyperinflation in Venezuela">hyperinflation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">shortages of basic goods</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> unemployment,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> poverty,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> disease, high child mortality, <a href="/wiki/Malnutrition" title="Malnutrition">malnutrition</a>, <a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Venezuela" title="Environmental issues in Venezuela">environmental issues</a>, severe crime and corruption. These factors have precipitated the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">Venezuelan refugee crisis</a> in which more than 7.7 million people had fled the country by June 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2017, Venezuela was declared to be in <a href="/wiki/Default_(finance)" title="Default (finance)">default</a> regarding debt payments by <a href="/wiki/Credit_rating_agency" title="Credit rating agency">credit rating agencies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The crisis in Venezuela has contributed to a rapidly deteriorating <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela" title="Human rights in Venezuela">human rights</a> situation. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 presidential election</a> were not recognized by the <a href="/wiki/Carter_Center" title="Carter Center">Carter Center</a> and <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> due to the lack of granular results, and disputed by the opposition, leading to <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">protests across the country</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> <p>According to the most popular and accepted version, in 1499, an expedition led by <a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ojeda" title="Alonso de Ojeda">Alonso de Ojeda</a> visited the Venezuelan coast. The <a href="/wiki/Stilt_houses" class="mw-redirect" title="Stilt houses">stilt houses</a> in the area of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Maracaibo" title="Lake Maracaibo">Lake Maracaibo</a> reminded the Italian navigator, <a href="/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci" title="Amerigo Vespucci">Amerigo Vespucci</a>, of the city of <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>, Italy, so he named the region <i>Veneziola</i>, or "Little Venice".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMassabié2008153_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMassabié2008153-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Spanish version of <i>Veneziola</i> is <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Venezuela</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThomas2005189_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThomas2005189-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Enciso" title="Martín Fernández de Enciso">Martín Fernández de Enciso</a>, a member of the Vespucci and Ojeda crew, gave a different account. In his work <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Suma_de_Geographia" title="Suma de Geographia">Summa de geografía</a></i></span>, he states that the crew found <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous peoples</a> who called themselves the <i>Veneciuela.</i> Thus, the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from the native word.<sup id="cite_ref-ICH_1958_386_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICH_1958_386-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Previously, the official name was <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/State_of_Venezuela" title="State of Venezuela">Estado de Venezuela</a></i></span> (1830–1856), <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">República de Venezuela</i></span> (1856–1864), <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela" title="United States of Venezuela">Estados Unidos de Venezuela</a></i></span> (1864–1953), and again <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venezuela" title="Republic of Venezuela">República de Venezuela</a></i></span> (1953–1999). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Venezuela" title="History of Venezuela">History of Venezuela</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-Columbian_history">Pre-Columbian history</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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image</a> sculpted in ceramic, <a href="/wiki/Los_Roques_Archipelago" title="Los Roques Archipelago">Los Roques Archipelago</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Petroglifo,_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg/200px-Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg/300px-Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg/400px-Petroglifo%2C_Parque_Waraira_Repano.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="1840" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Petroglyph" title="Petroglyph">Petroglyph</a> in the <a href="/wiki/El_%C3%81vila_National_Park" title="El Ávila National Park">Waraira Repano National Park</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>Evidence exists of human habitation in the area now known as Venezuela from about 15,000 years ago. Tools have been found on the high <a href="/wiki/River_terraces_(tectonic%E2%80%93climatic_interaction)" title="River terraces (tectonic–climatic interaction)">riverine terraces</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pedregal_River" title="Pedregal River">Rio Pedregal</a> in western Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKipfer200091_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKipfer200091-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Late_Pleistocene" title="Late Pleistocene">Late Pleistocene</a> hunting artifacts, including spear tips, have been found at a similar series of sites in northwestern Venezuela; according to <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating" title="Radiocarbon dating">radiocarbon dating</a>, these date from 13,000 to 7,000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKipfer2000172_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKipfer2000172-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is unknown how many people lived in Venezuela before the Spanish conquest; it has been estimated at one million.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition to Indigenous peoples known today, the population included groups such as the <a href="/wiki/Kalina_people" title="Kalina people">Kalina</a> (Caribs), <a href="/wiki/Auak%C3%A9_people" title="Auaké people">Auaké</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caquetio" title="Caquetio">Caquetio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mariche" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariche">Mariche</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Timoto%E2%80%93Cuica_people" title="Timoto–Cuica people">Timoto–Cuicas</a>. The Timoto–Cuica culture was the most complex society in Pre-Columbian Venezuela, with pre-planned permanent villages, surrounded by irrigated, terraced fields.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMahoney89_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMahoney89-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Their houses were made of stone and wood with thatched roofs. They were peaceful and depended on growing crops. Regional crops included potatoes and <a href="/wiki/Ulluco" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulluco">ullucos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-art_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-art-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They left behind art, particularly anthropomorphic ceramics, but no major monuments. They spun vegetable fibers to weave into textiles and mats for housing. They are credited with having invented the <a href="/wiki/Arepa" title="Arepa">arepa</a>, a staple in <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_cuisine" title="Venezuelan cuisine">Venezuelan cuisine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalas2004&#91;httpsbooksgooglecombooksid6-1QnKS6xG4CpgPA142_142&#93;_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalas2004[httpsbooksgooglecombooksid6-1QnKS6xG4CpgPA142_142]-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the conquest, the population dropped markedly, mainly through the spread of infectious diseases from Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two main north–south axes of pre-Columbian population were present, who cultivated maize in the west and <a href="/wiki/Manioc" class="mw-redirect" title="Manioc">manioc</a> in the east.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Large parts of the <i><a href="/wiki/Llanos" title="Llanos">llanos</a></i> were cultivated through a combination of <a href="/wiki/Slash_and_burn" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash and burn">slash and burn</a> and permanent settled agriculture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonization">Colonization</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas">Spanish colonization of the Americas</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="German colonization of the Americas">German colonization of the Americas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Venezuela" title="Colonial Venezuela">Colonial Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Musterung-Welser-Armada.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Musterung-Welser-Armada.png/220px-Musterung-Welser-Armada.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Musterung-Welser-Armada.png/330px-Musterung-Welser-Armada.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Musterung-Welser-Armada.png/440px-Musterung-Welser-Armada.png 2x" data-file-width="678" data-file-height="515" /></a><figcaption><i>The German <a href="/wiki/Welser" class="mw-redirect" title="Welser">Welser</a> Armada exploring Venezuela</i>, German Welsers ruled Venezuela from 1528 to 1546, before it was retaken by the Spanish Empire. Painting of 1560 by Hieronymus Köler.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1498, during his third voyage to the Americas, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> sailed near the <a href="/wiki/Orinoco_Delta" title="Orinoco Delta">Orinoco Delta</a> and landed in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Paria" title="Gulf of Paria">Gulf of Paria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDickey1892103_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDickey1892103-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Amazed by the great offshore current of freshwater which deflected his course eastward, Columbus expressed in a letter to Isabella and Ferdinand that he must have reached Heaven on Earth (terrestrial paradise): </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Great signs are these of the Terrestrial Paradise... for I have never read or heard of such a large quantity of fresh water being inside and in such close proximity to salt water; the very mild temperateness also corroborates this; and if the water of which I speak does not proceed from Paradise then it is an even greater marvel, because I do not believe such a large and deep river has ever been known to exist in this world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZamora1993Voyage_to_Paradise_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZamora1993Voyage_to_Paradise-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas">Spain's colonization of mainland Venezuela</a> started in 1522, establishing its first permanent South American settlement in the present-day<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venezuela&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> city of <a href="/wiki/Cuman%C3%A1" title="Cumaná">Cumaná</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="German_colonization">German colonization</h4></div> <p>In the 16th century, the king of Spain granted a concession to the German <a href="/wiki/Welser_family" title="Welser family">Welser family</a>. <a href="/wiki/Klein-Venedig" title="Klein-Venedig">Klein-Venedig</a> <sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> became the most extensive initiative in the <a href="/wiki/German_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="German colonization of the Americas">German colonization of the Americas</a> from 1528 to 1546. The Welsers were bankers to the Habsburgs and financiers of <a href="/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles V</a>, <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor</a>, who was King of Spain and had borrowed heavily from them to pay bribes for his <a href="/wiki/Imperial_election,_1519" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial election, 1519">Imperial election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1528, Charles V granted the Welsers the right to explore, rule and colonize the territory, as well as to seek the mythical golden town of <a href="/wiki/El_Dorado" title="El Dorado">El Dorado</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first expedition was led by <a href="/wiki/Ambrosius_Ehinger" title="Ambrosius Ehinger">Ambrosius Ehinger</a>, who established <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a> in 1529. After the deaths of first Ehinger (1533), then <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Federmann" title="Nikolaus Federmann">Nikolaus Federmann</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Georg_von_Speyer" title="Georg von Speyer">Georg von Speyer</a> (1540), <a href="/wiki/Philipp_von_Hutten" title="Philipp von Hutten">Philipp von Hutten</a> persisted in exploring the interior. In absence of von Hutten from the capital of the province, the crown of Spain claimed the right to appoint a governor. On Hutten's return to the capital, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Ana_de_Coro" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Ana de Coro">Santa Ana de Coro</a>, in 1546, the Spanish governor <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Carvajal" title="Juan de Carvajal">Juan de Carvajal</a> had Hutten and <a href="/wiki/Bartholomeus_VI._Welser" title="Bartholomeus VI. Welser">Bartholomeus VI. Welser</a> executed. Subsequently, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Charles_V" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Charles V">Charles V</a> revoked Welser's concession. The Welsers transported German miners to the colony, in addition to 4,000 African <a href="/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a> to plant <a href="/wiki/Sugar_cane" class="mw-redirect" title="Sugar cane">sugar cane</a> plantations. Many German colonists died from tropical diseases, to which they had no <a href="/wiki/Immunity_(medical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Immunity (medical)">immunity</a>, or through wars with the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous inhabitants</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_15th_century_to_early_17th_century">Late 15th century to early 17th century</h3></div> <p>Native <i><a href="/wiki/Cacique" title="Cacique">caciques</a></i> (leaders) such as <a href="/wiki/Guaicaipuro" title="Guaicaipuro">Guaicaipuro</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8201;1530–1568</span>) and <a href="/wiki/Tamanaco" title="Tamanaco">Tamanaco</a> (died 1573) attempted to resist Spanish incursions, but the newcomers ultimately subdued them.<sup id="cite_ref-UNE_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNE-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 16th century, during the Spanish colonization, indigenous peoples such as the <a href="/wiki/Mariches" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariches">Mariches</a>, themselves descendants of the Kalina, were converted to <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a>. Some resisting tribes or leaders are commemorated in place names, including Caracas, <a href="/wiki/Chacao_Municipality" title="Chacao Municipality">Chacao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Teques" title="Los Teques">Los Teques</a>. The early colonial settlements focused on the northern coast,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130_52-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWunder2003130-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but in the mid-18th century, the Spanish pushed farther inland along the <a href="/wiki/Orinoco_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Orinoco River">Orinoco River</a>. Here, the <a href="/wiki/Ye%27kuana" title="Ye&#39;kuana">Ye'kuana</a> organized resistance in 1775–76.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGott2005203_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGott2005203-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spain's eastern Venezuelan settlements were incorporated into <a href="/wiki/New_Andalusia_Province" title="New Andalusia Province">New Andalusia Province</a>. Administered by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Audiencia_of_Santo_Domingo" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo">Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo</a> from the early 16th century, most of Venezuela became part of the <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" title="Viceroyalty of New Granada">Viceroyalty of New Granada</a> in the early 18th century, and was then reorganized as an autonomous <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Venezuela" title="Captaincy General of Venezuela">Captaincy General</a> starting in 1777. Caracas, founded in the central coastal region in 1567, was well-placed to become a key location, being near the coastal port of <a href="/wiki/La_Guaira" title="La Guaira">La Guaira</a> and in a valley, in a mountain range, providing defensive strength against <a href="/wiki/Pirate" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirate">pirates</a> and a more fertile and healthy climate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEwell19844_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEwell19844-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Independence_and_19th_century">Independence and 19th century</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_War_of_Independence" title="Venezuelan War of Independence">Venezuelan War of Independence</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg/170px-Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg/255px-Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg/340px-Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1525" data-file-height="1990" /></a><figcaption><i>El Libertador</i>, <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After unsuccessful uprisings, Venezuela, under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Miranda" title="Francisco de Miranda">Francisco de Miranda</a>, a Venezuelan marshal who had fought in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolutions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Venezuelan Declaration of Independence">declared independence</a> as the <a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Venezuela" title="First Republic of Venezuela">First Republic of Venezuela</a> on 5 July 1811.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This began the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_War_of_Independence" title="Venezuelan War of Independence">Venezuelan War of Independence</a>. A devastating <a href="/wiki/1812_Caracas_earthquake" title="1812 Caracas earthquake">1812 Caracas earthquake</a>, together with the rebellion of the Venezuelan <i><a href="/wiki/Llanero" title="Llanero">llaneros</a></i>, helped bring down the republic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChasteen2001103_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChasteen2001103-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a>, new leader of the independentist forces, launched his <a href="/wiki/Admirable_Campaign" title="Admirable Campaign">Admirable Campaign</a> in 1813 from <a href="/wiki/United_Provinces_of_New_Granada" title="United Provinces of New Granada">New Granada</a>, retaking most of the territory and being proclaimed as <i>El Libertador</i> ("The Liberator"). A <a href="/wiki/Second_Republic_of_Venezuela" title="Second Republic of Venezuela">Second Republic of Venezuela</a> was proclaimed on 7 August 1813, but lasted only a few months before being crushed by <a href="/wiki/Royalist_(Spanish_American_independence)" title="Royalist (Spanish American independence)">royalist</a> caudillo <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Tom%C3%A1s_Boves" title="José Tomás Boves">José Tomás Boves</a> and his personal army of <i>llaneros</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The end of the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">French invasion</a> of homeland Spain in 1814 allowed a large expeditionary force to come under general <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Morillo" title="Pablo Morillo">Pablo Morillo</a>, with the goal to regain the lost territory in Venezuela and New Granada. As the war reached a stalemate on 1817, Bolívar reestablished the <a href="/wiki/Third_Republic_of_Venezuela" title="Third Republic of Venezuela">Third Republic of Venezuela</a> on the territory still controlled by the patriots, mainly in the <a href="/wiki/Guayana_Province" title="Guayana Province">Guayana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Llanos" title="Llanos">Llanos</a> regions. This republic was short-lived as only two years later, during the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Angostura" title="Congress of Angostura">Congress of Angostura</a> of 1819, the union of Venezuela with New Granada was decreed to form the Republic of Colombia. The war continued until full victory and <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereignty</a> was attained after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Carabobo" title="Battle of Carabobo">Battle of Carabobo</a> on 24 June 1821.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGregory199289–90_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGregory199289–90-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 24 July 1823, <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Prudencio_Padilla" title="José Prudencio Padilla">José Prudencio Padilla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Urdaneta" title="Rafael Urdaneta">Rafael Urdaneta</a> helped seal Venezuelan independence with their victory in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Maracaibo" title="Battle of Lake Maracaibo">Battle of Lake Maracaibo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> New Granada's congress gave Bolívar control of the Granadian army; leading it, he liberated several countries and founded the Republic of Colombia (<a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Gran Colombia</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGregory199289–90_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGregory199289–90-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:19_de_abril.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/19_de_abril.jpg/220px-19_de_abril.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/19_de_abril.jpg/330px-19_de_abril.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/19_de_abril.jpg/440px-19_de_abril.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1260" data-file-height="795" /></a><figcaption><i>Revolution of 19 April 1810</i>, the beginning of Venezuela's independence, by <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Tovar_y_Tovar" title="Martín Tovar y Tovar">Martín Tovar y Tovar</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Sucre went on to liberate <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> and become the second president of <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>. Venezuela remained part of Gran Colombia until 1830, when a rebellion led by <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_P%C3%A1ez" title="José Antonio Páez">José Antonio Páez</a> allowed the proclamation of a newly independent Venezuela, on 22 September;<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Páez became the first president of the new <a href="/wiki/State_of_Venezuela" title="State of Venezuela">State of Venezuela</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Between one-quarter and one-third of Venezuela's population was lost during these two decades of war (including about half the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelans_of_European_descent" title="Venezuelans of European descent">Venezuelans of European descent</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which by 1830, was estimated at 800,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Caudillismo_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Caudillismo-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Venezuela" title="Flag of Venezuela">Flag of Venezuela</a>, the yellow stands for land wealth, the blue for the sea that separates Venezuela from Spain, and the red for the blood shed by the heroes of independence.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">Slavery</a> in Venezuela was abolished in 1854.<sup id="cite_ref-Caudillismo_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Caudillismo-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Much of Venezuela's 19th-century history was characterized by political turmoil and dictatorial rule, including the Independence leader José Antonio Páez, who gained the presidency three times and served 11 years between 1830 and 1863. This culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_War" title="Federal War">Federal War</a> (1859–63). In the latter half of the century, <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Guzm%C3%A1n_Blanco" title="Antonio Guzmán Blanco">Antonio Guzmán Blanco</a>, another <i>caudillo</i>, served 13 years, between 1870 and 1887, with three other presidents interspersed. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg/220px-Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg/330px-Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg/440px-Martin_Tovar_y_Tovar_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1455" data-file-height="980" /></a><figcaption>The signing of Venezuela's independence, by <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Tovar_y_Tovar" title="Martín Tovar y Tovar">Martín Tovar y Tovar</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1895, a longstanding dispute with Great Britain about the Essequibo territory, which Britain claimed as part of <a href="/wiki/British_Guiana" title="British Guiana">British Guiana</a> and Venezuela saw as Venezuelan territory, erupted into the <a href="/wiki/Venezuela_Crisis_of_1895" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuela Crisis of 1895">Venezuela Crisis of 1895</a>. The dispute became a diplomatic crisis when Venezuela's lobbyist, <a href="/wiki/William_Lindsay_Scruggs" title="William Lindsay Scruggs">William L. Scruggs</a>, sought to argue that British behavior over the issue violated the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>' <a href="/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine" title="Monroe Doctrine">Monroe Doctrine</a> of 1823, and used his influence in Washington, D.C., to pursue the matter. Then, U.S. president <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> adopted a broad interpretation of the doctrine that declared an American interest in any matter within the hemisphere.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZakaria1999145–146_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZakaria1999145–146-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Britain ultimately accepted arbitration, but in negotiations over its terms was able to persuade the U.S. on many details. A tribunal convened in Paris in 1898 to decide the issue and in 1899 awarded the bulk of the disputed territory to British Guiana.<sup id="cite_ref-Humphreys_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Humphreys-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1899, <a href="/wiki/Cipriano_Castro" title="Cipriano Castro">Cipriano Castro</a>, assisted by his friend <a href="/wiki/Juan_Vicente_G%C3%B3mez" title="Juan Vicente Gómez">Juan Vicente Gómez</a>, seized power in Caracas. Castro defaulted on Venezuela's considerable foreign debts and declined to pay compensation to foreigners caught up in Venezuela's <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_civil_wars" title="Venezuelan civil wars">civil wars</a>. This led to the <a href="/wiki/Venezuela_Crisis_of_1902%E2%80%931903" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903">Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903</a>, in which Britain, Germany and Italy imposed a naval blockade before international arbitration at the new <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration" title="Permanent Court of Arbitration">Permanent Court of Arbitration</a> was agreed. In 1908, <a href="/wiki/Dutch-Venezuela_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch-Venezuela War">another dispute</a> broke out with the Netherlands, which was resolved when Castro left for medical treatment in Germany and was promptly overthrown by <a href="/wiki/Juan_Vicente_G%C3%B3mez" title="Juan Vicente Gómez">Juan Vicente Gómez</a> (1908–35). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt,_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt%2C_1961.jpg/220px-R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt%2C_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt%2C_1961.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="244" data-file-height="233" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt" title="Rómulo Betancourt">Rómulo Betancourt</a> (president 1945–1948 / 1959–1964), one of the major democratic leaders of Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>The discovery of massive <a href="/wiki/Oil_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil field">oil deposits</a> in Lake Maracaibo during World War I<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> proved pivotal for Venezuela and transformed its economy from a heavy dependence on agricultural exports. It prompted a boom that lasted into the 1980s; by 1935, Venezuela's per capita gross domestic product was Latin America's highest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrow1980616–617_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrow1980616–617-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gómez benefited handsomely from this, as corruption thrived, but at the same time, the new source of income helped him centralize the state and develop its authority. </p><p>Gómez remained the most powerful man in Venezuela until his death in 1935. The <i>gomecista</i> dictatorship (1935–1945) system largely continued under <a href="/wiki/Eleazar_L%C3%B3pez_Contreras" title="Eleazar López Contreras">Eleazar López Contreras</a>, but from 1941, under <a href="/wiki/Isa%C3%ADas_Medina_Angarita" title="Isaías Medina Angarita">Isaías Medina Angarita</a>, was relaxed. Angarita granted a range of reforms, including the legalization of all political parties. After World War II, immigration from Southern Europe and poorer Latin American countries markedly diversified Venezuelan society.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1945, a civilian-military coup overthrew Medina Angarita and ushered in <a href="/wiki/El_Trienio_Adeco" title="El Trienio Adeco">a period of democratic rule</a> (1945–1948) under the mass membership party <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Action_(Venezuela)" title="Democratic Action (Venezuela)">Democratic Action</a>, initially under <a href="/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt" title="Rómulo Betancourt">Rómulo Betancourt</a>, until <a href="/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Gallegos" title="Rómulo Gallegos">Rómulo Gallegos</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1947_Venezuelan_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 Venezuelan presidential election">1947 Venezuelan presidential election</a> (the first free and fair elections in Venezuela).<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gallegos governed until overthrown by a military junta led by the triumvirate <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luis_Felipe_Llovera_P%C3%A1ez&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Luis Felipe Llovera Páez (page does not exist)">Luis Felipe Llovera Páez</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Llovera_P%C3%A1ez" class="extiw" title="es:Luis Llovera Páez">es</a>&#93;</span>, <a href="/wiki/Marcos_P%C3%A9rez_Jim%C3%A9nez" title="Marcos Pérez Jiménez">Marcos Pérez Jiménez</a>, and Gallegos' Defense Minister, <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Delgado_Chalbaud" title="Carlos Delgado Chalbaud">Carlos Delgado Chalbaud</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/1948_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1948 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état">1948 Venezuelan <i>coup d'état</i></a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez.jpg/170px-Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez" title="Carlos Andrés Pérez">Carlos Andrés Pérez</a> was <a href="/wiki/Impeached" class="mw-redirect" title="Impeached">impeached</a> on corruption charges in 1993.</figcaption></figure> <p>The most powerful man in the military <i>junta</i> (1948–58) was Pérez Jiménez and he was suspected of being behind the death of Chalbaud, who died in a bungled kidnapping in 1950. When the junta unexpectedly lost the <a href="/wiki/1952_Venezuelan_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1952 Venezuelan presidential election">1952 presidential election</a>, it ignored the results and Jiménez was installed as president<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Jiménez was forced out on 23 January 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In an effort to consolidate a young democracy, the three major political parties (<a href="/wiki/Acci%C3%B3n_Democr%C3%A1tica" class="mw-redirect" title="Acción Democrática">Acción Democrática</a> (AD), <a href="/wiki/COPEI" class="mw-redirect" title="COPEI">COPEI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n_Republicana_Democr%C3%A1tica" class="mw-redirect" title="Unión Republicana Democrática">Unión Republicana Democrática</a> (URD), with the notable exception of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="Communist Party of Venezuela">Communist Party of Venezuela</a>), signed the <a href="/wiki/Puntofijo_Pact" title="Puntofijo Pact">Puntofijo Pact</a> power-sharing agreement. AD and COPEI dominated the political landscape for four decades. </p><p>During the presidencies of <a href="/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt" title="Rómulo Betancourt">Rómulo Betancourt</a> (1959–64, his second term) and <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Leoni" title="Raúl Leoni">Raúl Leoni</a> (1964–69), substantial guerilla movements occurred. Most laid down their arms under <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Caldera" title="Rafael Caldera">Rafael Caldera</a>'s first presidency (1969–74). Caldera had won the <a href="/wiki/1968_Venezuelan_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 Venezuelan presidential election">1968 election</a> for COPEI, the first time a party other than Democratic Action took the presidency through a democratic election. The new democratic order had its antagonists. Betancourt <a href="/wiki/Assassination_attempt_of_R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassination attempt of Rómulo Betancourt">suffered an attack</a> planned by the Dominican dictator <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo" title="Rafael Trujillo">Rafael Trujillo</a> in 1960, and the leftists excluded from the Pact initiated an insurgency by organizing themselves into the Armed Forces of National Liberation, sponsored by the Communist Party and <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>. In 1962 they tried to destabilize the military corps, with failed revolts. Betancourt promoted a foreign policy, the <a href="/wiki/Betancourt_Doctrine" title="Betancourt Doctrine">Betancourt Doctrine</a>, in which he only recognized elected governments by popular vote.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Quotation needed from source to verify. (April 2018)">need quotation to verify</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg/220px-Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg/330px-Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg/440px-Caracas_Sabana_Grande_1973.jpg 2x" data-file-width="590" data-file-height="393" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sabana_Grande,_Caracas" title="Sabana Grande, Caracas">Sabana Grande</a> district, <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a> (1973)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1973_Venezuelan_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1973 Venezuelan presidential election">1973 Venezuelan presidential election</a> of <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Andr%C3%A9s_P%C3%A9rez" title="Carlos Andrés Pérez">Carlos Andrés Pérez</a> coincided with an <a href="/wiki/1973_oil_crisis" title="1973 oil crisis">oil crisis</a>, in which Venezuela's income exploded as <a href="/wiki/Oil_prices" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil prices">oil prices</a> soared; oil industries were nationalized in 1976. This led to massive increases in public spending, but also increases in external debts, until the collapse of oil prices during the 1980s crippled the economy. As the government started to devalue the currency in 1983 to face its financial obligations, standards of living fell dramatically. Failed economic policies and increasing corruption in government led to rising poverty and crime, worsening social indicators, and increased political instability.<sup id="cite_ref-Schuyler_2001_10_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schuyler_2001_10-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1980s, the Presidential Commission for State Reform (COPRE) emerged as a mechanism of political innovation. Venezuela decentralized its political system and diversified its economy, reducing the size of the state. COPRE operated as an innovation mechanism, also by incorporating issues into the political agenda, that were excluded from public deliberation by the main actors of the democratic system. The most discussed topics were incorporated into the public agenda: decentralization, political participation, municipalization, judicial order reforms and the role of the state in a new economic strategy. The social reality made the changes difficult to apply.<sup id="cite_ref-:32_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:32-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s led to a political crisis. Hundreds of people were killed by security forces and the military in the <i><a href="/wiki/Caracazo" title="Caracazo">Caracazo</a></i> riots of 1989, during the second presidential term of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989–1993) and after the implementation of economic austerity measures.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a>, who in 1982 had promised to depose the bipartisanship governments, used the growing anger at economic austerity measures to justify a <a href="/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempts" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempts">coup attempt in February 1992</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-Marquez124_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marquez124-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCprofile_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCprofile-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/November_1992_Venezuelan_coup_attempt" title="November 1992 Venezuelan coup attempt">second coup d'état attempt occurred in November</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCprofile_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCprofile-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> President Carlos Andrés Pérez (re-elected in 1988) was impeached under embezzlement charges in 1993, leading to the interim presidency of <a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Jos%C3%A9_Vel%C3%A1squez" title="Ramón José Velásquez">Ramón José Velásquez</a> (1993–1994). Coup leader Chávez <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Caldera#Amnesty_to_the_1992_coup_participants" title="Rafael Caldera">was pardoned in March 1994</a> by president Rafael Caldera (1994–1999, his second term), with a clean slate and his political rights reinstated, allowing Chávez to win and maintain the presidency continuously from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez won the elections of 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2012 and the presidential referendum of 2004. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bolivarian_government_under_Chávez:_1999–2013"><span id="Bolivarian_government_under_Ch.C3.A1vez:_1999.E2.80.932013"></span>Bolivarian government under Chávez: 1999–2013</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Venezuela_(1999%E2%80%93present)" title="History of Venezuela (1999–present)">History of Venezuela (1999–present)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg/220px-Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg/330px-Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg/440px-Chavez_Kirch_Lula141597.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3506" data-file-height="1769" /></a><figcaption>Chávez with fellow South American presidents <a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9stor_Kirchner" title="Néstor Kirchner">Néstor Kirchner</a> of Argentina and <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Lula da Silva</a> of Brazil</figcaption></figure> <p>A collapse in confidence in the existing parties led to <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> being elected president in 1998 and the subsequent launch of a "Bolivarian Revolution", beginning with a 1999 <a href="/wiki/Constituent_assembly" title="Constituent assembly">constituent assembly</a> to write a new Constitution. The Revolution refers to a <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_populism" title="Left-wing populism">left-wing populism</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_movement" title="Social movement">social movement</a> and political process led by Chávez, who founded the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Republic_Movement" title="Fifth Republic Movement">Fifth Republic Movement</a> in 1997 and the <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a> in 2007. The "Bolivarian Revolution" is named after <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a>. According to Chávez and other supporters, the "Bolivarian Revolution" sought to build a mass movement to implement <a href="/wiki/Bolivarianism" title="Bolivarianism">Bolivarianism</a>—<a href="/wiki/Popular_democracy" title="Popular democracy">popular democracy</a>, economic independence, equitable distribution of revenues, and an end to political corruption. They interpret Bolívar's ideas from a <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populist</a> perspective, using <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> rhetoric. This led to formation of the <b>Fifth Republic of Venezuela</b>, commonly known as the <b>Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela</b>, that continues to the present day. Venezuela has been considered the Bolivarian Republic following the adoption of the new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution of 1999</a>. Following Chávez's election, Venezuela developed into a <a href="/wiki/Dominant-party_system" title="Dominant-party system">dominant-party system</a>, dominated by the <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party of Venezuela</a>. In April 2002, Chávez was briefly ousted from power in the <a href="/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempt">2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt</a> following popular demonstrations by his opponents,<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but Chavez returned after two days as a result of demonstrations by poor Chávez supporters and actions by the military.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECannon2004295_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECannon2004295-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELópez_Maya200516_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELópez_Maya200516-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Chávez remained in power after an all-out national strike that lasted <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_general_strike_of_2002%E2%80%932003" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003">from December 2002 to February 2003</a>, including a strike/lockout in the state oil company <a href="/wiki/PDVSA" title="PDVSA">PDVSA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Capital_flight" title="Capital flight">Capital flight</a> before and during the strike led to the reimposition of <a href="/wiki/Foreign_exchange_controls" title="Foreign exchange controls">currency controls</a>. In the subsequent decade, the government was forced into currency devaluations.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Economist_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Businessweek_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Businessweek-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These devaluations did not improve the situation<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vagueness" title="Wikipedia:Vagueness"><span title="This information is too vague. (November 2024)">vague</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> of the people who rely on imported products or locally produced products that depend on imported inputs, while dollar-denominated oil sales account for the majority of exports.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The profits of the oil industry have been lost to "social engineering" and corruption, instead of investments needed to maintain oil production.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chávez survived further political tests, including an <a href="/wiki/2004_Venezuelan_recall_referendum" title="2004 Venezuelan recall referendum">August 2004 recall referendum</a>. He was elected for another term <a href="/wiki/2006_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2006 Venezuelan presidential election">in December 2006</a> and for a third term in October 2012. However, he was never sworn in due to medical complications; he died in March 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bolivarian_government_under_Maduro:_2013–present"><span id="Bolivarian_government_under_Maduro:_2013.E2.80.93present"></span>Bolivarian government under Maduro: 2013–present</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Presidency of Nicolás Maduro">Presidency of Nicolás Maduro</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">Crisis in Venezuela</a></div> <p>The presidential election that took place in April 2013, was the first since Chávez took office in 1999 in which his name did not appear on the ballot.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on a self-published source. (October 2022)">self-published source?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Under the Bolivarian government, Venezuela went from being one of the richest countries in Latin America to one of the poorest.<sup id="cite_ref-RICHtoRAGS_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RICHtoRAGS-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_administration" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez administration">Hugo Chávez's socioeconomic policies</a> of relying on oil sales and importing goods resulted in large amounts of debt, no change to <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">corruption in Venezuela</a> and culminated into a <a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">crisis in Venezuela</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RICHtoRAGS_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RICHtoRAGS-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result, the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">Venezuelan refugee crisis</a>, the largest emigration of people in Latin America's history,<sup id="cite_ref-WPfeb18_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPfeb18-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> occurred, with over 7 million – about 20% of the country's population – emigrating.<sup id="cite_ref-LPgracias_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LPgracias-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJfeb18_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJfeb18-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Chávez initiated <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_missions" title="Bolivarian missions">Bolivarian missions</a>, programs aimed at helping the poor.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/270px-Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/360px-Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_en_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2003" data-file-height="2671" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> in 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>Poverty began to increase into the 2010s.<sup id="cite_ref-UN_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> was picked by Chavez as his successor, appointing him vice president in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Economist_93-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maduro has been <a href="/wiki/President_of_Venezuela" title="President of Venezuela">president of Venezuela</a> since 14 April 2013, when he won the <a href="/wiki/2013_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2013 Venezuelan presidential election">presidential election</a> after Chavez' death, with 51% of the vote, against <a href="/wiki/Henrique_Capriles" title="Henrique Capriles">Henrique Capriles</a> on 49%. The <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable" title="Democratic Unity Roundtable">Democratic Unity Roundtable</a> contested Maduro's election as fraud, but an audit of 56% of the vote showed no discrepancies,<sup id="cite_ref-BBC12June_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC12June-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court of Venezuela">Supreme Court of Venezuela</a> ruled Maduro was the legitimate president.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Opposition leaders and some international media consider Maduro's government a dictatorship.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters-maduro_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters-maduro-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hrw-maduro_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw-maduro-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wpo-maduro_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpo-maduro-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Since February 2014, hundreds of thousands have protested over high levels of criminal violence, corruption, hyperinflation, and chronic scarcity of basic goods due to government policies.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Demonstrations and riots have resulted in over 40 fatalities in the unrest between Chavistas and opposition protesters<sup id="cite_ref-2014protests_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014protests-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and opposition leaders, including <a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_L%C3%B3pez" title="Leopoldo López">Leopoldo López</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Ledezma" title="Antonio Ledezma">Antonio Ledezma</a> were arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-2014protests_111-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014protests-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Human rights groups condemned the arrest of López.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election</a>, the opposition gained a majority.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela devalued its currency in February 2013 due to rising shortages,<sup id="cite_ref-Businessweek_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Businessweek-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-Devalue-Currency_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-Devalue-Currency-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">which included</a> milk and other necessities. This led to an increase in malnutrition, especially among children.<sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian-Food-Shortages_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian-Food-Shortages-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ECONeatCHAVISMO_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECONeatCHAVISMO-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The economy had become dependent on the exportation of oil, with crude accounting for 86% of exports,<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and a high price per barrel to support social programs. Beginning in 2014 the <a href="/wiki/Price_of_oil" title="Price of oil">price of oil</a> plummeted from over $100 to $40. This placed pressure on the economy, which was no longer able to afford vast social programs. The Government began taking more money from <a href="/wiki/PDVSA" title="PDVSA">PDVSA</a>, the state oil company, resulting in a lack of reinvestment in fields and employees. Production decreased from its height of nearly 3 to 1&#160;million <a href="/wiki/Barrel_(unit)#Oil_barrel" title="Barrel (unit)">barrels</a> (480 to 160&#160;thousand <a href="/wiki/Cubic_metre" title="Cubic metre">cubic metres</a>) per day.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, Venezuela entered a <a href="/wiki/Recession" title="Recession">recession</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 2015, had the world's highest inflation, surpassing 100%.<sup id="cite_ref-FPblackbox_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPblackbox-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2017, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s administration imposed more <a href="/wiki/Economic_sanctions" title="Economic sanctions">economic sanctions</a> against PDVSA and Venezuelan officials.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Economic problems, as well as crime, were the causes of the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_protests_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan protests (2014–present)">2014–present Venezuelan protests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Since 2014, roughly 5.6 million people have <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis" title="Venezuelan refugee crisis">fled Venezuela</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2016, Maduro decreed an "economic emergency", revealing the extent of the crisis and expanding his powers.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July 2016, Colombian border crossings were temporarily opened to allow Venezuelans to purchase food and basic health items.<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuelans_Cross_Into_Colombia_In_Search_Of_Food_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuelans_Cross_Into_Colombia_In_Search_Of_Food-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 2016, a study<sup id="cite_ref-Hambre_en_Venezuela:_El_15.7%_de_los_venezolanos_se_ha_alimentado_de_residuos_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hambre_en_Venezuela:_El_15.7%_de_los_venezolanos_se_ha_alimentado_de_residuos-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> indicated 15% of Venezuelans were eating "<a href="/wiki/Food_waste" class="mw-redirect" title="Food waste">food waste</a> discarded by commercial establishments". 200 prison riots had occurred by October 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Man_claims_son_was_eaten_by_fellow_inmates_during_riot_in_Venezuelan_prison_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Man_claims_son_was_eaten_by_fellow_inmates_during_riot_in_Venezuelan_prison-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg/220px-The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg/330px-The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg/440px-The_TSJ_chamber_at_Maduro_2019_inauguration.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2953" data-file-height="1969" /></a><figcaption>Maduro was <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Second inauguration of Nicolás Maduro">inaugurated</a> for a <a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis">contested</a> and controversial second term on 10 January 2019.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Maduro-aligned <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal</a>, which had been overturning <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly (Venezuela)">National Assembly</a> decisions since the opposition took control, took over the functions of the assembly, creating the <a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_constitutional_crisis" title="2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis">2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-reuters-maduro_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters-maduro-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2017, the <a href="/wiki/2017_Constituent_National_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Constituent National Assembly">2017 Constituent National Assembly</a> was elected and stripped the National Assembly of its powers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> The election raised concerns of an emerging dictatorship.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTjail_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTjail-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2017, Maduro declared opposition parties barred from the following year's presidential vote after they boycotted mayoral polls.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Maduro won the <a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">2018 election</a> with 68% of the vote. The result was challenged by Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France and the US who deemed it fraudulent and recognized <a href="/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a> as president.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other countries continued to recognize Maduro,<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although China, facing financial pressure over its position, began hedging by decreasing loans, cancelling joint ventures, and signaling willingness to work with all parties.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2019, Trump imposed an economic embargo against Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2020, Trump indicted Maduro and Venezuelan officials, on charges of drug trafficking, <a href="/wiki/Narcoterrorism" title="Narcoterrorism">narcoterrorism</a>, and corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2020, a report documented <a href="/wiki/Enforced_disappearance" title="Enforced disappearance">enforced disappearances</a> that occurred in 2018–19. 724 enforced disappearances of <a href="/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner">political detainees</a> were reported. The report stated that security forces subjected victims to <a href="/wiki/Torture_in_Venezuela" title="Torture in Venezuela">torture</a>. The report stated the government used enforced disappearances to silence opponents and other critical voices.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro,_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg/220px-Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg/330px-Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg/440px-Protestas_en_Caracas_contra_la_reelecci%C3%B3n_de_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro%2C_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="606" /></a><figcaption>Protesters in Caracas fighting against the public forces during the <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">2024 Venezuelan protests</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Maduro</a> ran for a third consecutive term in the <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 presidential election</a>, while former diplomat <a href="/wiki/Edmundo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Urrutia" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmundo González Urrutia">Edmundo González Urrutia</a> represented the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_Platform" title="Unitary Platform">Unitary Platform</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">Plataforma Unitaria Democrática</i>; PUD), the main opposition political alliance.<sup id="cite_ref-MCM_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCM-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Polls conducted before the election indicated that González would win by a wide margin. After the government-controlled <a href="/wiki/National_Electoral_Council_(Venezuela)" title="National Electoral Council (Venezuela)">National Electoral Council</a> (CNE) announced partial results showing a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July, <a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election">world leaders predominantly expressed skepticism of the claimed results</a> and did not recognize the CNE claims<sup id="cite_ref-HardtoBelieve_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HardtoBelieve-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters29jul_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters29jul-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with only some exceptions.<sup id="cite_ref-WorldLeadersCast_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WorldLeadersCast-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Both González and Maduro proclaimed themselves winners of the election. The results of the election were not recognized by the <a href="/wiki/Carter_Center" title="Carter Center">Carter Center</a> and <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> due to the lack of granular results, and disputed by the opposition, which claimed a landslide victory and released access to vote tallies collected by <a href="/wiki/Poll_watchers" class="mw-redirect" title="Poll watchers">poll watchers</a> from a majority of polling centers as proof.<sup id="cite_ref-OAS_report_VE_pres_elec_DECO_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OAS_report_VE_pres_elec_DECO-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-opposition_results_website_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-opposition_results_website-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LaPatilla_how2access_electoral_records_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaPatilla_how2access_electoral_records-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJElectionDatabase_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJElectionDatabase-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election#Aftermath" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">aftermath</a> of the announcement of results by the election authorities, <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">protests broke out across the country</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Venezuela" title="Geography of Venezuela">Geography of Venezuela</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_Topography.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Venezuela_Topography.png/300px-Venezuela_Topography.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Venezuela_Topography.png/450px-Venezuela_Topography.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Venezuela_Topography.png/600px-Venezuela_Topography.png 2x" data-file-width="2101" data-file-height="1809" /></a><figcaption>Topographic map of Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela is located in the north of South America; geologically, its mainland rests on the <a href="/wiki/South_American_Plate" class="mw-redirect" title="South American Plate">South American Plate</a>. It has a total area of 916,445&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (353,841&#160;sq&#160;mi) and a land area of 882,050&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (340,560&#160;sq&#160;mi), making Venezuela the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries and outlying territories by total area">33rd largest country in the world</a>. The territory it controls lies between latitudes <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">0°</a> and <a href="/wiki/16th_parallel_north" title="16th parallel north">16°N</a> and longitudes <a href="/wiki/59th_meridian_west" title="59th meridian west">59°</a> and <a href="/wiki/74th_meridian_west" title="74th meridian west">74°W</a>. </p><p>Shaped roughly like a triangle, the country has a 2,800&#160;km (1,700&#160;mi) coastline in the north, which includes numerous islands in the Caribbean and the northeast borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well defined <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topographical</a> regions: the <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo_Basin" title="Maracaibo Basin">Maracaibo lowlands</a> in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east–west arc from the Colombian border along the northern Caribbean coast, the wide plains in central Venezuela, and the <a href="/wiki/Guiana_Highlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Guiana Highlands">Guiana Highlands</a> in the southeast. </p><p>The northern mountains are the extreme northeastern extensions of South America's Andes mountain range. <a href="/wiki/Pico_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Pico Bolívar">Pico Bolívar</a>, the nation's highest point at 4,979&#160;m (16,335&#160;ft), lies in this region. To the south, the dissected <a href="/wiki/Guayana_Region" class="mw-redirect" title="Guayana Region">Guiana Highlands</a> contain the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin and <a href="/wiki/Angel_Falls" title="Angel Falls">Angel Falls</a>, the world's highest waterfall, as well as <i><a href="/wiki/Tepui" title="Tepui">tepuis</a></i>, large table-like mountains. The country's center is characterized by the <i>llanos</i>, which are extensive plains that stretch from the Colombian border in the far west to the Orinoco River <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">delta</a> in the east. The Orinoco, with its rich <a href="/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvial soils</a>, binds the largest and most important <a href="/wiki/Drainage_system_(geomorphology)" title="Drainage system (geomorphology)">river system</a> of the country; it originates in one of the largest <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">watersheds</a> in Latin America. The <a href="/wiki/Caron%C3%AD_River_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caroní River (Venezuela)">Caroní</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Apure_River" title="Apure River">Apure</a> are other major rivers. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guanaguanare.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Guanaguanare.JPG/273px-Guanaguanare.JPG" decoding="async" width="273" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Guanaguanare.JPG/410px-Guanaguanare.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Guanaguanare.JPG/546px-Guanaguanare.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cayo_de_Agua" title="Cayo de Agua">Cayo de Agua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Roques_Archipelago" title="Los Roques Archipelago">Los Roques</a> Archipiélago, <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela borders Colombia to the west, <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a> to the east, and Brazil to the south. Caribbean islands such as <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grenada" title="Grenada">Grenada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Antilles" title="Leeward Antilles">Leeward Antilles</a> lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela has territorial disputes with Guyana, formerly United Kingdom, largely concerning the <a href="/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_territorial_dispute" title="Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute">Essequibo area</a> and with Colombia concerning the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Venezuela" title="Gulf of Venezuela">Gulf of Venezuela</a>. In 1895, after years of diplomatic attempts to solve the border dispute, the dispute over the Essequibo River border flared up. It was submitted to a "neutral" commission (composed of British, American, and Russian representatives and without a direct Venezuelan representative), which in 1899 decided mostly against Venezuela's claim.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Venezuela" title="Climate of Venezuela">Climate of Venezuela</a></div><p>Venezuela is entirely located in the tropics over the Equator to around 12° N. Its climate varies from humid low-elevation plains, where average annual temperatures range as high as 35&#160;°C (95.0&#160;°F), to glaciers and highlands (the <i><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1ramo" title="Páramo">páramos</a></i>) with an average yearly temperature of 8&#160;°C (46.4&#160;°F). Annual rainfall varies from 430&#160;mm (16.9&#160;in) in the semiarid portions of the northwest to over 1,000&#160;mm (39.4&#160;in) in the Orinoco Delta of the far east and the Amazonian Jungle in the south. The precipitation level is lower in the period from August through April. These periods are referred to as hot-humid and cold-dry seasons. Another characteristic of the climate is this variation throughout the country by the existence of a mountain range called "Cordillera de la Costa" which crosses the country from east to west. The majority of the population lives in these mountains.<sup id="cite_ref-LOC_2005_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOC_2005-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png/266px-Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png" decoding="async" width="266" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png/399px-Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png/532px-Venezuela_K%C3%B6ppen.png 2x" data-file-width="4782" data-file-height="3891" /></a><figcaption>Venezuela map of Köppen climate classification</figcaption></figure> <p>The country falls into four horizontal temperature zones based primarily on elevation, having tropical, dry, temperate with dry winters, and polar (<a href="/wiki/Alpine_tundra" title="Alpine tundra">alpine tundra</a>) climates, amongst others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWarhol200665_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWarhol200665-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Geografía_–_Clima_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Geografía_–_Clima-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the tropical zone—below 800&#160;m (2,625&#160;ft)—temperatures are hot, with yearly averages ranging between 26 and 28&#160;°C (78.8 and 82.4&#160;°F). The temperate zone ranges between 800 and 2,000&#160;m (2,625 and 6,562&#160;ft) with averages from 12 to 25&#160;°C (53.6 to 77.0&#160;°F); many of Venezuela's cities, including the capital, lie in this region. Colder conditions with temperatures from 9 to 11&#160;°C (48.2 to 51.8&#160;°F) are found in the cool zone between 2,000 and 3,000&#160;m (6,562 and 9,843&#160;ft), especially in the Venezuelan Andes, where pastureland and permanent snowfield with yearly averages below 8&#160;°C (46&#160;°F) cover land above 3,000 meters (9,843&#160;ft) in the <i>páramos</i>. </p><p>The highest temperature recorded was 42&#160;°C (108&#160;°F) in <a href="/wiki/Machiques" title="Machiques">Machiques</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the lowest temperature recorded was −11&#160;°C (12&#160;°F), reported from an uninhabited high altitude at <a href="/wiki/Pico_Piedras_Blancas" title="Pico Piedras Blancas">Páramo de Piedras Blancas</a> (<a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Mérida state">Mérida state</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biodiversity_and_conservation">Biodiversity and conservation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Natural_regions_of_Venezuela" title="Natural regions of Venezuela">Natural regions of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Venezuela" title="Fauna of Venezuela">Fauna of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flora_of_Venezuela" title="Flora of Venezuela">Flora of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_symbols_of_Venezuela" title="National symbols of Venezuela">National symbols of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Venezuela" title="List of birds of Venezuela">List of birds of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Venezuela" title="Environmental issues in Venezuela">Environmental issues in Venezuela</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Venezuela" title="List of national parks of Venezuela">List of national parks of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG/220px-Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG/330px-Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG/440px-Curacao-Icterus-Icterus-2013.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2649" data-file-height="1995" /></a><figcaption>The national animal of Venezuela is the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_troupial" title="Venezuelan troupial">Venezuelan troupial</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela lies within the <a href="/wiki/Neotropical_realm" title="Neotropical realm">Neotropical realm</a>; large portions of the country were originally covered by <a href="/wiki/Tropical_and_subtropical_moist_broadleaf_forests" title="Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests">moist broadleaf forests</a>. One of 17 <a href="/wiki/Megadiverse_countries" title="Megadiverse countries">megadiverse countries</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's <a href="/wiki/Habitat" title="Habitat">habitats</a> range from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive <i>llanos</i> plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east. They include <a href="/wiki/Deserts_and_xeric_shrublands" title="Deserts and xeric shrublands">xeric scrublands</a> in the extreme northwest and coastal <a href="/wiki/Mangrove" title="Mangrove">mangrove</a> forests in the northeast.<sup id="cite_ref-LOC_2005_157-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOC_2005-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Cloud_forest" title="Cloud forest">cloud forests</a> and lowland <a href="/wiki/Rainforest" title="Rainforest">rainforests</a> are particularly rich.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442_164-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Venezuela" title="Fauna of Venezuela">Animals</a> of Venezuela are diverse and include <a href="/wiki/Manatee" title="Manatee">manatees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Three-toed_sloth" title="Three-toed sloth">three-toed sloth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Two-toed_sloth" title="Two-toed sloth">two-toed sloth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amazon_river_dolphin" title="Amazon river dolphin">Amazon river dolphins</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Orinoco_Crocodile" class="mw-redirect" title="Orinoco Crocodile">Orinoco Crocodiles</a>, which have been reported to reach up to 6.6&#160;m (22&#160;ft) in length. Venezuela hosts a total of 1,417 bird species, 48 of which are endemic.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Important birds include <a href="/wiki/Ibis" title="Ibis">ibises</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osprey" title="Osprey">ospreys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingfisher" title="Kingfisher">kingfishers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442_164-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the yellow-orange <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_troupial" title="Venezuelan troupial">Venezuelan troupial</a>, the national bird. Notable <a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammals</a> include the <a href="/wiki/Giant_anteater" title="Giant anteater">giant anteater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaguar" title="Jaguar">jaguar</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Capybara" title="Capybara">capybara</a>, the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Rodent" title="Rodent">rodent</a>. More than half of Venezuelan avian and mammalian species are found in the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon Rainforest">Amazonian forests</a> south of the Orinoco.<sup id="cite_ref-Bevilacqua_2002_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bevilacqua_2002-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the fungi, an account was provided by R.W.G. Dennis<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which has been digitized and the records made available on-line as part of the Cybertruffle Robigalia database.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That database includes nearly 3,900 species of fungi recorded from Venezuela, but is far from complete, and the true total number of fungal species already known from Venezuela is likely higher, given the generally accepted estimate that only about 7% of all fungi worldwide have so far been discovered.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE&#39;&#39;Georgia_Country_Study_Guide_Volume_1_Strategic_Information_and_Developments&#39;&#39;201336_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE&#39;&#39;Georgia_Country_Study_Guide_Volume_1_Strategic_Information_and_Developments&#39;&#39;201336-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shakira_posando.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Shakira_posando.JPG/217px-Shakira_posando.JPG" decoding="async" width="217" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Shakira_posando.JPG/325px-Shakira_posando.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Shakira_posando.JPG/433px-Shakira_posando.JPG 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Crocodile in Hato El Cedral in <a href="/wiki/Apure_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Apure State">Apure State</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Among plants of Venezuela, over 25,000 species of <a href="/wiki/Orchidaceae" class="mw-redirect" title="Orchidaceae">orchids</a> are found in the country's cloud forest and lowland rainforest ecosystems.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442_164-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDydynskiBeech200442-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These include the <i>flor de mayo</i> orchid (<i><a href="/wiki/Cattleya_mossiae" title="Cattleya mossiae">Cattleya mossiae</a></i>), the national flower. Venezuela's national tree is the <a href="/wiki/Tabebuia_chrysantha" class="mw-redirect" title="Tabebuia chrysantha">araguaney</a>. The tops of the tepuis are also home to several carnivorous plants including the marsh pitcher plant, <a href="/wiki/Heliamphora" title="Heliamphora">Heliamphora</a>, and the insectivorous bromeliad, <a href="/wiki/Brocchinia_reducta" title="Brocchinia reducta">Brocchinia reducta</a>. </p><p>Venezuela is among the top 20 countries in terms of <a href="/wiki/Endemism" title="Endemism">endemism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GFW_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GFW-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Among its animals, 23% of <a href="/wiki/Reptile" title="Reptile">reptilian</a> and 50% of <a href="/wiki/Amphibian" title="Amphibian">amphibian</a> species, including the <a href="/wiki/Mannophryne_trinitatis" title="Mannophryne trinitatis">Trinidad poison frog</a>, are endemic.<sup id="cite_ref-GFW_170-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GFW-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although the available information is still very small, a first effort has been made to estimate the number of fungal species endemic to Venezuela: 1334 species of fungi have been tentatively identified as possibly endemic.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some 38% of the over 21,000 plant species known from Venezuela are unique to the country.<sup id="cite_ref-GFW_170-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GFW-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela is one of the 10 most biodiverse countries on the planet, yet it is one of the leaders of deforestation due to economic and political factors. Each year, roughly 287,600 hectares of forest are permanently destroyed, and other areas are degraded by mining, oil extraction, and logging. Between 1990 and 2005, Venezuela officially lost 8.3% of its forest cover, which is about 4.3&#160;million ha. In response, federal protections for critical habitat were implemented; for example, 20% to 33% of forested land is protected.<sup id="cite_ref-Bevilacqua_2002_166-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bevilacqua_2002-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela had a 2019 <a href="/wiki/Forest_Landscape_Integrity_Index" title="Forest Landscape Integrity Index">Forest Landscape Integrity Index</a> mean score of 8.78/10, ranking it 19th globally out of 172 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The country's <a href="/wiki/Biosphere_reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="Biosphere reserve">biosphere reserve</a> is part of the <a href="/wiki/World_Network_of_Biosphere_Reserves" title="World Network of Biosphere Reserves">World Network of Biosphere Reserves</a>; five <a href="/wiki/Wetlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Wetlands">wetlands</a> are registered under the <a href="/wiki/Ramsar_Convention" title="Ramsar Convention">Ramsar Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2003, 70% of the nation's land was under conservation management in over 200 protected areas, including 43 national parks.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Venezuela" title="List of national parks of Venezuela">Venezuela's 43 national parks</a> include Canaima National Park, <a href="/wiki/Morrocoy_National_Park" title="Morrocoy National Park">Morrocoy National Park</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mochima_National_Park" title="Mochima National Park">Mochima National Park</a>. In the far south is a reserve for the country's Yanomami tribes. Covering 32,000 square miles (82,880 square kilometres), the area is off-limits to farmers, miners, and all non-Yanomami settlers. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LakeVal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/LakeVal.jpg/220px-LakeVal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/LakeVal.jpg/330px-LakeVal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/LakeVal.jpg/440px-LakeVal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Valencia_Lake" class="mw-redirect" title="Valencia Lake">Valencia Lake</a>, formerly praised by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt" title="Alexander von Humboldt">Alexander von Humboldt</a> for its beauty, is massively polluted due to the countless sewage systems pouring residuals.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure><p>Venezuela was one of the few countries that did not enter an <a href="/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions" class="mw-redirect" title="Intended Nationally Determined Contributions">INDC</a> at <a href="/wiki/COP21" class="mw-redirect" title="COP21">COP21</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many terrestrial ecosystems are considered <a href="/wiki/IUCN_Red_List_of_Ecosystems#Risk_Categories" title="IUCN Red List of Ecosystems">endangered</a>, specially the <a href="/wiki/Dry_forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Dry forest">dry forest</a> in the northern regions of the country and the <a href="/wiki/Coral_reef" title="Coral reef">coral reefs</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> coast.<sup id="cite_ref-Foundations_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foundations-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are 105 protected areas in Venezuela, which cover around 26% of the country's continental, marine and insular surface.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hydrography">Hydrography</h3></div> <p>The country is made up of three river basins: the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a>, the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Valencia, which forms an endorheic basin.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the Atlantic side it drains most of Venezuela's river waters. The largest basin in this area is the extensive Orinoco basin<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whose surface area, close to one million km<sup>2</sup>, is greater than that of the whole of Venezuela, although it has a presence of 65% in the country. </p><p>The size of this basin - similar to that of the Danube - makes it the third largest in South America, and it gives rise to a flow of some 33,000 m<sup>3</sup>/s, making the Orinoco the third largest in the world, and also one of the most valuable from the point of view of renewable natural resources. The Rio or Brazo Casiquiare is unique in the world, as it is a natural derivation of the <a href="/wiki/Orinoco_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Orinoco river">Orinoco</a> that, after some 500&#160;km in length, connects it to the Negro River, which in turn is a tributary of the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_River" title="Amazon River">Amazon</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG/229px-LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG" decoding="async" width="229" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG/344px-LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG/458px-LA_LAGUNA_VICTORIA.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Victoria Lagoon, <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_(state)" title="Mérida (state)">Mérida State</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Orinoco receives directly or indirectly rivers such as the Ventuari, the Caura, the <a href="/wiki/Caron%C3%AD_River" title="Caroní River">Caroní</a>, the Meta, the <a href="/wiki/Arauca_River" title="Arauca River">Arauca</a>, the Apure and many others. Other Venezuelan rivers that empty into the Atlantic are the waters of the San Juan and Cuyuní basins. Finally, there is the Amazon River, which receives the Guainía, the Negro and others. Other basins are the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Paria" title="Gulf of Paria">Gulf of Paria</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Essequibo_River" title="Essequibo River">Esequibo River</a>. The second most important watershed is the Caribbean Sea. The rivers of this region are usually short and of scarce and irregular flow, with some exceptions such as the <a href="/wiki/Catatumbo_River" title="Catatumbo River">Catatumbo</a>, which originates in <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> and drains into the Maracaibo Lake basin. Among the rivers that reach the Maracaibo lake basin are the Chama, the Escalante, the Catatumbo, and the contributions of the smaller basins of the Tocuyo, Yaracuy, Neverí and Manzanares rivers. </p><p> A minimum drains to the Lake Valencia basin.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Of the total extension of the rivers, a total of 5400&#160;km are navigable. Other rivers worth mentioning are the Apure, Arauca, Caura, Meta, Barima, <a href="/wiki/Portuguesa_River" title="Portuguesa River">Portuguesa</a>, Ventuari and Zulia, among others.</p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cerro_Wichuj(Cara_de_Indio)_(12111191594).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg/250px-Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg/375px-Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg/500px-Cerro_Wichuj%28Cara_de_Indio%29_%2812111191594%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4917" data-file-height="3278" /></a><figcaption>Amazon <a href="/wiki/Rainforest" title="Rainforest">rainforest</a> and Autana River, <a href="/wiki/Amazonas_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazonas (Venezuela)">Amazonas</a> state</figcaption></figure><p>The country's main lakes are Lake Maracaibo<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> -the largest in South America- open to the sea through the natural channel, but with fresh water, and Lake Valencia with its endorheic system. Other noteworthy bodies of water are the <a href="/wiki/Guri_Reservoir" title="Guri Reservoir">Guri reservoir</a>, the Altagracia lagoon, the Camatagua reservoir and the Mucubají lagoon in the Andes. </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relief">Relief</h3></div> <p>The Venezuelan natural <a href="/wiki/Landscape" title="Landscape">landscape</a><sup id="cite_ref-:3_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is the product of the interaction of <a href="/wiki/Tectonic_plates" class="mw-redirect" title="Tectonic plates">tectonic plates</a><sup id="cite_ref-:3_186-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that since the <a href="/wiki/Paleozoic" title="Paleozoic">Paleozoic</a> have contributed to its current appearance. On the formed structures, seven physical-natural units have been modeled, differentiated in their relief and in their <a href="/wiki/Natural_resources" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural resources">natural resources</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG/220px-Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG/330px-Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG/440px-Flores_para_la_Nieve.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3672" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bol%C3%ADvar_Peak" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolívar Peak">Bolívar Peak</a>, the highest mountain in Venezuela, in <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_National_Park_(Venezuela)" title="Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela)">Sierra Nevada de Mérida</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The relief of Venezuela has the following characteristics: <a href="/wiki/Coastline" class="mw-redirect" title="Coastline">coastline</a> with several peninsulas<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Islands">islands</a>, adenas of the Andes mountain range (north and northwest), Lake Maracaibo (between the chains, on the coast);<sup id="cite_ref-:4_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Orinoco_river" class="mw-redirect" title="Orinoco river">Orinoco river</a> delta,<sup id="cite_ref-:5_189-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> region of <a href="/wiki/Peneplain" title="Peneplain">peneplains</a> and plateaus (tepui, east of the Orinoco) that together form the Guyanas massif (plateaus, southeast of the country). </p><p>The oldest rock formations in South America are found in the complex basement of the Guyanas highlands<sup id="cite_ref-:6_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in the crystalline line of the Maritime and Cordillera massifs in Venezuela. The Venezuelan part of the Guyanas <a href="/wiki/Altiplano" title="Altiplano">Altiplano</a> consists of a large granite block of <a href="/wiki/Gneiss" title="Gneiss">gneiss</a> and other crystalline <a href="/wiki/Archean" title="Archean">Archean</a> rocks, with underlying layers of sandstone and shale clay.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The core of <a href="/wiki/Granite" title="Granite">granite</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cordillera" title="Cordillera">cordillera</a> is, to a large extent, flanked by sedimentary layers from the <a href="/wiki/Cretaceous" title="Cretaceous">Cretaceous</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> folded in an <a href="/wiki/Anticline" title="Anticline">anticline</a> structure. Between these orographic systems there are plains covered with tertiary and quaternary layers of gravel, sands and clayey <a href="/wiki/Marl" title="Marl">marls</a>. The depression contains lagoons and lakes, among which is that of <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a>, and presents, on the surface, <a href="/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvial</a> deposits from the <a href="/wiki/Quaternary" title="Quaternary">Quaternary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Coastal_Range" title="Venezuelan Coastal Range">Coastal Mountain Range</a></li></ul> <p>Also known as the Cordillera de la Costa, stretches along Venezuela's northern coast. This region is known for its lush tropical rainforests, stunning coastal views, and a rich variety of flora and fauna. The intermountain depressions, or valleys, between the mountain ranges are often home to fertile agricultural land and vibrant communities. These valleys offer a stark contrast to the rugged mountains that rise dramatically from the coast. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coro_region" title="Coro region">Lara-Falcón Highlands</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg/220px-La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg/330px-La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg/440px-La_vegetaci%C3%B3n_m%C3%A1s_abundante_se%C3%B1ala_el_canal_de_los_r%C3%ADos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Los Llanos, <a href="/wiki/Apure_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Apure state">Apure state</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Situated in northwestern Venezuela, the Lara-Falcón Highlands exhibit a terrain defined by plateaus and rolling hills. These highlands provide a significant contrast to the surrounding lowlands and coastal areas. The relief is characterized by gently sloping plateaus that support agriculture, including coffee and cacao cultivation. This region's semi-arid climate and picturesque landscapes make it an important agricultural and tourism center. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maracaibo_Basin" title="Maracaibo Basin">Lake Maracaibo Lowlands</a></li></ul> <p>Encompass the basin of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Maracaibo" title="Lake Maracaibo">Lake Maracaibo</a> and the plains surrounding the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Venezuela" title="Gulf of Venezuela">Gulf of Venezuela</a>. This region offers two distinct plains—the northern one is relatively dry, while the southern one is humid and dotted with swamps. The relief here is primarily characterized by flat terrain, with the exception of some elevated areas near the lake. Lake Maracaibo itself sits in a depression, surrounded by oil-rich lands and productive agricultural areas.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_188-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Andes" title="Venezuelan Andes">The Andes</a></li></ul> <p>The Venezuelan Andes, part of the broader <a href="/wiki/Andes" title="Andes">Andes</a> mountain range, offer a striking relief with towering peaks, deep valleys, and fertile intermontane basins. Dominated by these corpulent mountain ranges, including Venezuela's highest peak, <a href="/wiki/Bol%C3%ADvar_Peak" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolívar Peak">Bolívar Peak</a>, the region's rugged and picturesque landscapes are defined by its high-altitude terrain. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg/247px-Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg" decoding="async" width="247" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg/371px-Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg/494px-Playa_Grande_in_Choroni.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4592" data-file-height="3056" /></a><figcaption>Coastal Mountain Range (<i>Cordillera de la Costa</i>) in Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>The unique relief of this area finds its origins in the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period" title="Last Glacial Period">Last Glacial Period</a>, where the interplay of repeated glacier advances and retreats sculpted the landscape, shaped by the cold, high-altitude climate. This glacial heritage has left a lasting imprint, with glaciers carving deep valleys and polishing rugged peaks, while sheltered intramontane valleys offer fertile soils and temperate microclimates, creating ideal conditions for agriculture and human settlement. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Llanos" title="Venezuelan Llanos">Los Llanos</a></li></ul> <p>Los Llanos, or "the plains", are expansive sedimentary basins characterized by predominantly flat relief.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the eastern Llanos feature low-plateaus and the Unare depression, created through mesa erosion, adding diversity to the terrain. This region is subject to seasonal flooding, transforming the flat plains into a vast wetland during the rainy season. The relief here influences the region's unique ecosystems, including extensive grasslands and abundant wildlife. </p> <ul><li><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_(2004)_23.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg/261px-Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg" decoding="async" width="261" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg/392px-Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg/522px-Vuelo_Santa_Elena-Canaima_%282004%29_23.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1060" data-file-height="712" /></a><figcaption>Guayana natural region in Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Guayana_natural_region" title="Guayana natural region">Guiana Shield</a></li></ul> <p>The Guiana Shield boasts a varied relief shaped by geological processes over millions of years. This region encompasses peneplains, rugged mountain ranges, foothills, and the iconic <a href="/wiki/Tepuis" class="mw-redirect" title="Tepuis">tepuis</a>, or table-top mountains. The tepuis stand as isolated, flat-topped plateaus that rise dramatically from the surrounding terrain. This unique relief contributes to the region's remarkable biodiversity and scientific significance.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_190-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orinoco_Delta" title="Orinoco Delta">Orinoco Delta</a></li></ul> <p>The Orinoco Delta's relief is characterized by a complex system of lands and waters. It consists of numerous channels, islands, and shifting sedimentary deposits. While the relief may appear relatively uniform, it conceals a dynamic environment influenced by seasonal flooding and sediment deposition. This complex deltaic relief supports diverse aquatic life and the livelihoods of Indigenous communities adapted to its ever-changing landscapes.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_189-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Valleys">Valleys</h3></div> <p>The valleys are undoubtedly the most important type of <a href="/wiki/Landscape" title="Landscape">landscape</a> in the Venezuelan territory,<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> not because of their spatial extension, but because they are the environment where most of the country's population and economic activities are concentrated. On the other hand, there are valleys throughout almost all the national space, except in the great sedimentary basins of the Llanos and the depression of the <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo_Lake" class="mw-redirect" title="Maracaibo Lake">Maracaibo Lake</a>, except also in the Amazonian peneplains.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By their modeling, the valleys of the Venezuelan territory belong mainly to two types: valleys of <a href="/wiki/Fluvial" class="mw-redirect" title="Fluvial">fluvial</a> type and valleys of <a href="/wiki/Glacial" class="mw-redirect" title="Glacial">glacial</a> type.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Much more frequent, the former largely dominate the latter, which are restricted to the highest parts of the Andes. Moreover, most glacial valleys are relics of a past geologic epoch, which culminated some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. </p><p>The deep and narrow Andean valleys are very different from the wide depressions of <a href="/wiki/Aragua" title="Aragua">Aragua</a> and Carabobo, in the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Coastal_Range" title="Venezuelan Coastal Range">Cordillera de la Costa</a>, or from the valleys nestled in the Mesas de <a href="/wiki/Monagas" title="Monagas">Monagas</a>. These examples indicate that the configuration of the local relief is decisive in identifying regional types of valleys. Likewise, due to their warm climate, the Guayana valleys are distinguished from the temperate or cold <a href="/wiki/Andes" title="Andes">Andean valleys</a> by their humid environment. Both are, in turn, different from the semi-arid depressions of the states of Lara and Falcón. </p><p>The Andean valleys, essentially agricultural, precociously populated but nowadays in loss of speed, do not confront the same problems of space occupation as the strongly urbanized and industrialized valleys of the central section of the Cordillera de la Costa. On the other hand, the unpopulated and practically untouched <a href="/wiki/The_Guianas" title="The Guianas">Guiana</a> valleys are another category this area is called the Lost World (<i>Mundo Perdido</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_196-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Andean valleys are undoubtedly the most impressive of the Venezuelan territory because of the energy of the encasing reliefs, whose summits often dominate the valley bottoms by 3,000 to 3,500 <a href="/wiki/Meters" class="mw-redirect" title="Meters">meters</a> of relative <a href="/wiki/Altitude" title="Altitude">altitude</a>. They are also the most picturesque in terms of their style of habitat, forms of land use, <a href="/wiki/Handicraft" title="Handicraft">handicraft</a> production and all the traditions linked to these activities.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_196-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 185px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Valle de Mifafí, Mérida State"><img alt="Valle de Mifafí, Mérida State" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg/200px-Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg/300px-Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg/400px-Valle_de_Mifaf%C3%AD_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6016" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Valle de Mifafí, <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Mérida State">Mérida State</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 185px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Caracas Valley"><img alt="The Caracas Valley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg/200px-Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg/300px-Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg/400px-Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3734" data-file-height="2655" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a> Valley</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deserts">Deserts</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg/220px-Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg/330px-Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg/440px-Medanos_de_Coro_Falcon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9danos_de_Coro_National_Park" title="Médanos de Coro National Park">Médanos de Coro National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paraguan%C3%A1_Peninsula" title="Paraguaná Peninsula">Paraguaná Peninsula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Falc%C3%B3n" title="Falcón">Falcón State</a>, Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela has a great diversity of landscapes and climates,<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> including arid and dry areas. The main <a href="/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">desert</a> in the country is in the state of Falcon near the city of Coro. It is now a protected park, the <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9danos_de_Coro_National_Park" title="Médanos de Coro National Park">Médanos de Coro National Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The park is the largest of its kind in Venezuela, covering 91 square kilometres. The landscape is dotted with cacti and other xerophytic plants that can survive in humidity-free conditions near the desert. </p><p>Desert wildlife includes mostly lizards, <a href="/wiki/Iguanas" class="mw-redirect" title="Iguanas">iguanas</a> and other reptiles. Although less frequent, the desert is home to some foxes, giant anteaters and rabbits. There are also some native bird populations, such as the sparrowhawk, tropical mockingbird, scaly dove and crested quail. </p><p>Other desert areas in the country include part of the Guajira Desert in the Guajira Municipality in the north of Zulia State<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and facing the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Venezuela" title="Gulf of Venezuela">Gulf of Venezuela</a>, the Médanos de Capanaparo<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in the Santos Luzardo National Park in <a href="/wiki/Apure_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Apure State">Apure State</a>, the Medanos de la Isla de Zapara<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in Zulia State, the so-called Hundición de Yay<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in the Andrés Eloy Blanco Municipality of Lara State, and the Urumaco Formation also in Falcón State. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_politics">Government and politics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Venezuela" title="Government of Venezuela">Government of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Venezuela" title="Cabinet of Venezuela">Cabinet of Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela" title="Politics of Venezuela">Politics of Venezuela</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_Venezuela" title="Democracy in Venezuela">Democracy in Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2024 Venezuelan presidential election">2024 Venezuelan presidential election</a> and <a href="/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_protests" title="2024 Venezuelan protests">2024 Venezuelan protests</a></div> <p>Two major blocs of <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Venezuela" title="List of political parties in Venezuela">political parties</a> are in Venezuela: the incumbent leftist bloc United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), its major allies <a href="/wiki/Fatherland_for_All" title="Fatherland for All">Fatherland for All</a> (PPT) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), and the opposition bloc grouped into the electoral coalition <a href="/wiki/Mesa_de_la_Unidad_Democr%C3%A1tica" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesa de la Unidad Democrática">Mesa de la Unidad Democrática</a>. This includes <a href="/wiki/A_New_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Era">A New Era</a> (UNT) together with allied parties <a href="/wiki/Project_Venezuela" title="Project Venezuela">Project Venezuela</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justice_First" title="Justice First">Justice First</a>, <a href="/wiki/Movement_for_Socialism_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement for Socialism (Venezuela)">Movement for Socialism</a> (MAS) and others. </p><p>The Venezuelan president is elected by a vote, with direct and <a href="/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a>, and is both <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> and <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of government</a>. The term of office is six years, and (as of 15 February 2009) a president may be re-elected an unlimited number of times. The president appoints the vice president and decides the size and composition of the cabinet and makes appointments to it with the involvement of the legislature. The president can ask the legislature to reconsider portions of laws he finds objectionable, but a simple parliamentary majority can override these objections. </p><p>The president may ask the National Assembly to pass an <a href="/wiki/Enabling_act#In_Venezuela" title="Enabling act">enabling act</a> granting the ability to <a href="/wiki/Rule_by_decree" title="Rule by decree">rule by decree</a> in specified policy areas; this requires a two-thirds majority in the Assembly. Since 1959, six Venezuelan presidents have been granted such powers. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">unicameral</a> Venezuelan parliament is the <i>Asamblea Nacional</i> ("National Assembly"). The number of members is variable – each state and the Capital district elect three representatives plus the result of dividing the state population by 1.1% of the total population of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Three seats are reserved for representatives of Venezuela's Indigenous peoples. For the 2011–2016 period the number of seats is 165.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> All deputies serve five-year terms. </p><p>The voting age in Venezuela is 18. Voting is not <a href="/wiki/Compulsory_voting" title="Compulsory voting">compulsory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TG_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TG-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Venezuela" title="Law of Venezuela">legal system of Venezuela</a> belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)" title="Civil law (legal system)">Continental Law</a> tradition. The highest <a href="/wiki/Judiciary" title="Judiciary">judicial</a> body is the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal of Justice</a> or <i>Tribunal Supremo de Justicia</i>, whose magistrates are elected by parliament for a single twelve-year term. The <a href="/wiki/National_Electoral_Council_(Venezuela)" title="National Electoral Council (Venezuela)">National Electoral Council</a> (<i>Consejo Nacional Electoral</i>, or <i>CNE</i>) is in charge of electoral processes; it is formed by five main directors elected by the National Assembly. Supreme Court president Luisa Estela Morales said in December 2009 that Venezuela had moved away from "a rigid division of powers" toward a system characterized by "intense coordination" between the branches of government. Morales clarified that each power must be independent.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 185px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:LegislativoCentro.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="National Assembly of Venezuela building"><img alt="National Assembly of Venezuela building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/LegislativoCentro.jpg/200px-LegislativoCentro.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/LegislativoCentro.jpg/300px-LegislativoCentro.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/LegislativoCentro.jpg/400px-LegislativoCentro.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Venezuela" title="National Assembly of Venezuela">National Assembly of Venezuela</a> <a href="/wiki/Palacio_Federal_Legislativo" title="Palacio Federal Legislativo">building</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 185px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona,_Caracas.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="La Casona presidential residence in Caracas, now a museum"><img alt="La Casona presidential residence in Caracas, now a museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg/200px-Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg/300px-Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg/400px-Residencia_presidencial_La_Casona%2C_Caracas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="2880" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">La Casona presidential residence in Caracas, now a <a href="/wiki/Museum" title="Museum">museum</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/States_of_Venezuela" title="States of Venezuela">States of Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Venezuela" title="Regions of Venezuela">Regions of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg/220px-Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg/330px-Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg/440px-Localizador_Politico_de_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="534" data-file-height="614" /></a><figcaption>Map of the Venezuelan federation</figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela is divided into 23 states (<i>estados</i>), a capital district (<i>distrito capital</i>) corresponding to the city of Caracas, and the Federal Dependencies (<i>Dependencias Federales</i>, a special territory). Venezuela is further subdivided into 335 municipalities (<i>municipios</i>); these are subdivided into over one thousand parishes (<i>parroquias</i>). The states are grouped into nine administrative regions (<i>regiones administrativas</i>), which were established in 1969 by presidential decree.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>The country can be further divided into ten geographical areas, some corresponding to climatic and biogeographical regions. In the north are the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Andes" title="Venezuelan Andes">Venezuelan Andes</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Coro_region" title="Coro region">Coro region</a>, a mountainous tract in the northwest, holds several <a href="/wiki/Mountain_range" title="Mountain range">sierras</a> and valleys. East of it are lowlands abutting <a href="/wiki/Lake_Maracaibo" title="Lake Maracaibo">Lake Maracaibo</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Venezuela" title="Gulf of Venezuela">Gulf of Venezuela</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cordillera_de_la_Costa_Central" title="Cordillera de la Costa Central">Central Range</a> runs parallel to the coast and includes the hills surrounding <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a>; the Eastern Range, separated from the Central Range by the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Cariaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf of Cariaco">Gulf of Cariaco</a>, covers all of <a href="/wiki/Sucre_(state)" title="Sucre (state)">Sucre</a> and northern <a href="/wiki/Monagas" title="Monagas">Monagas</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Insular_Region_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Insular Region (Venezuela)">Insular Region</a> includes all of Venezuela's island possessions: <a href="/wiki/Nueva_Esparta" title="Nueva Esparta">Nueva Esparta</a> and the various <a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Dependencies">Federal Dependencies</a>. The Orinoco Delta, which forms a triangle covering <a href="/wiki/Delta_Amacuro" title="Delta Amacuro">Delta Amacuro</a>, projects northeast into the Atlantic Ocean.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>The country maintains a claim on the territory it calls "Guayana Esequiba", the territory administered by Guyana west of the Esequibo River. In 1966 the British and Venezuelan governments signed the Geneva Agreement to resolve the conflict peacefully. The Port of Spain Protocol of 1970 set a deadline to try to resolve the issue, without success to date.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <table style="background:transparent;font-size: 11px;float: left"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="4"><div role="img" class="noresize" style="width: 500px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Venezuela_location_map.svg/500px-Venezuela_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="447" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Venezuela_location_map.svg/750px-Venezuela_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Venezuela_location_map.svg/1000px-Venezuela_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1654" data-file-height="1479" /></span></span> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:344px; top:213px"><i><a href="/wiki/Bolivar_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivar State"><span style="color:teal;">Bolívar</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:249px; top:327px"><i><a href="/wiki/Amazonas_(Venezuelan_state)" title="Amazonas (Venezuelan state)"><span style="color:teal;">Amazonas</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:169px; top:199.5px"><i><a href="/wiki/Apure" title="Apure"><span style="color:teal;">Apure</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:44px; top:93px"><i><a href="/wiki/Zulia" title="Zulia"><span style="color:teal;">Zulia</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:44px; top:172px"><i><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1chira" title="Táchira"><span style="color:teal;">Táchira</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:109px; top:158px"><i><a href="/wiki/Barinas_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Barinas State"><span style="color:teal;">Barinas</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:64px; top:143px"><i><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_(state)" title="Mérida (state)"><span style="color:teal;">Mérida</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:89px; top:113px"><i><a href="/wiki/Trujillo_(state)" title="Trujillo (state)"><span style="color:teal;">Trujillo</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:123px; top:87px"><i><a href="/wiki/Lara_(state)" title="Lara (state)"><span style="color:teal;">Lara</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:121.5px; top:128px"><i><a href="/wiki/Portuguesa_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguesa (Venezuela)"><span style="color:teal;">Portuguesa</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:234px; top:133px"><i><a href="/wiki/Gu%C3%A1rico" title="Guárico"><span style="color:teal;">Guárico</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:164px; top:114.5px"><i><a href="/wiki/Cojedes_(state)" title="Cojedes (state)"><span style="color:teal;">Cojedes</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:155px; top:79.5px"><i><a href="/wiki/Yaracuy" title="Yaracuy"><span style="color:teal;">Yaracuy</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:119px; top:58px"><i><a href="/wiki/Falc%C3%B3n" title="Falcón"><span style="color:teal;">Falcón</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:184px; top:90.5px"><i><a href="/wiki/Carabobo" title="Carabobo"><span style="color:teal;">Carabobo</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:214px; top:103px"><i><a href="/wiki/Aragua" title="Aragua"><span style="color:teal;">Aragua</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:244px; top:84.5px"><i><a href="/wiki/Miranda_(state)" title="Miranda (state)"><span style="color:teal;">Miranda</span></a></i></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:224px; top:76px"><i><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Capital_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Capital District"><span style="color:teal;">D. 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population">Rank</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Venezuela">Name</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/States_of_Venezuela" title="States of Venezuela">State</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Venezuela_by_population" title="List of cities in Venezuela by population">Pop.</a></th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Caracas"><img alt="Caracas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg/120px-Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg/180px-Venezuela_-_Caracas_-_Mirador_de_Valle_Arriba.jpg 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class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Barcelona,_Venezuela" title="Barcelona, Venezuela">Barcelona</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Anzo%C3%A1tegui" title="Anzoátegui">Anzoátegui</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">421,424</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">17</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_M%C3%A9rida" title="Mérida, Mérida">Mérida</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_(state)" title="Mérida (state)">Mérida</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">217,547 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Maracay" title="Maracay">Maracay</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Aragua" title="Aragua">Aragua</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">407,109</td> <td 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style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Barinas,_Barinas" title="Barinas, Barinas">Barinas</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Barinas_(state)" title="Barinas (state)">Barinas</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">353.851</td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">20</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Guanare" title="Guanare">Guanare</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Portuguesa,_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguesa, Venezuela">Portuguesa</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">192,644 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Suspension_of_constitutional_rights">Suspension of constitutional rights</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government,_Altamira_Square_6.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG/220px-Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG/330px-Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG/440px-Venezuela_protests_against_the_Nicolas_Maduro_government%2C_Altamira_Square_6.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="3216" /></a><figcaption>Protests in <a href="/wiki/Altamira_(Caracas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Altamira (Caracas)">Altamira</a>, Caracas (2014)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary elections</a> were held on 6 December 2015 to elect the 164 deputies and three Indigenous representatives of the National Assembly. In 2014, a series of protest and demonstrations began in Venezuela, attributed<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (May 2019)">by whom?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> to inflation, violence and shortages in Venezuela. The protests were largely peaceful.<sup id="cite_ref-SVCOprotestINFO_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVCOprotestINFO-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (December 2023)">better&#160;source&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> The government has accused the protest of being motivated by <a href="/wiki/Fascists" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascists">fascists</a>, opposition leaders, capitalism and foreign influence,<sup id="cite_ref-Milne_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Milne-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> President Maduro acknowledged <a href="/wiki/PSUV" class="mw-redirect" title="PSUV">PSUV</a> defeat but attributed the opposition's victory to an intensification of an economic war. Despite this, Maduro said, "I will stop by hook or by crook the opposition coming to power, whatever the costs, in any way".<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the following months, Maduro fulfilled his promise of preventing the elected National Assembly from legislating. The first steps taken by PSUV and government were the substitution of the entire <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court of Venezuela">Supreme Court</a> a day after the parliamentary elections,<sup id="cite_ref-prodavinci.com_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prodavinci.com-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> contrary to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution of Venezuela</a>, acclaimed as a fraud by the majority of the Venezuelan and international press.<sup id="cite_ref-larazon.net_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-larazon.net-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-el-nacional.com_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-el-nacional.com-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc.com_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ntn24web.com_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ntn24web.com-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <i>Financial Times</i> described the function of the Supreme Court in Venezuela as "rubber stamping executive whims and vetoing legislation".<sup id="cite_ref-broken_system_217-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-broken_system-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The PSUV government used this violation to suspend several elected opponents.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maduro said that "the Amnesty law (approved by the Parliament) will not be executed" and asked the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 January 2016, Maduro approved an unconstitutional economic emergency decree,<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> relegating to his own figure the legislative and executive powers, while also holding judiciary power through the fraudulent designation of judges the day after the election on 6 December 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-prodavinci.com_212-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prodavinci.com-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-larazon.net_213-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-larazon.net-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-el-nacional.com_214-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-el-nacional.com-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ntn24web.com_216-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ntn24web.com-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From these events, Maduro effectively controls all three branches of government. On 14 May 2016, constitutional guarantees were in fact suspended when Maduro decreed the extension of the economic emergency decree for another 60 days and declared a State of Emergency,<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which is a clear violation of the Constitution of Venezuela<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in the Article 338th: "The approval of the extension of States of emergency corresponds to the National Assembly." Thus, constitutional rights in Venezuela are considered suspended in fact by many publications<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and public figures.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 14 May 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> was considering the application of the <a href="/wiki/Inter-American_Democratic_Charter" title="Inter-American Democratic Charter">Inter-American Democratic Charter</a><sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> sanctions for non-compliance to its own constitution. </p><p>In March 2017, the Venezuelan Supreme Court took over law making powers from the National Assembly<sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but reversed its decision the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Venezuela" title="Foreign relations of Venezuela">Foreign relations of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guayana_Esequiba_(zona_completa).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png/220px-Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png/330px-Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png/440px-Guayana_Esequiba_%28zona_completa%29.png 2x" data-file-width="784" data-file-height="786" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_territorial_dispute" title="Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute">disputed "Guayana Esequiba" claim area</a> is a territory administered by <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a> and historically claimed by Venezuela.</figcaption></figure> <p>Throughout most of the 20th century, Venezuela maintained friendly relations with most Latin American and Western nations. Relations between Venezuela and the United States government worsened in 2002, after the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt during which the U.S. government recognized the short-lived interim presidency of <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Carmona" title="Pedro Carmona">Pedro Carmona</a>. In 2015, Venezuela was declared a national security threat by U.S. president <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Correspondingly, ties to various Latin American and <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> countries not allied to the U.S. have strengthened.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Venezuela seeks alternative <a href="/wiki/Western_Hemisphere" title="Western Hemisphere">hemispheric</a> integration via such proposals as the <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Alternative_for_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas">Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas</a> trade proposal and the newly launched Latin American television network <a href="/wiki/TeleSUR" class="mw-redirect" title="TeleSUR">teleSUR</a>. Venezuela is one of five nations in the world—along with Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria—to have recognized the independence of <a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_Abkhazia_and_South_Ossetia" title="International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia">Abkhazia and South Ossetia</a>. Venezuela was a proponent of <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">OAS</a>'s decision to adopt its Anti-Corruption Convention<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and is actively working in the <a href="/wiki/Mercosur" title="Mercosur">Mercosur</a> trade bloc to push increased trade and energy integration. Globally, it seeks a "<a href="/wiki/Polarity_in_international_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Polarity in international relations">multi-polar</a>" world based on strengthened ties among undeveloped countries.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg/220px-XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg/330px-XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg/440px-XIV_cumbre_del_ALBA-TCP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5939" data-file-height="3989" /></a><figcaption>President Maduro among other Latin American leaders participating in a 2017 <a href="/wiki/ALBA" title="ALBA">ALBA</a> gathering</figcaption></figure> <p>On 26 April 2017, Venezuela announced its intention to withdraw from the OAS.<sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuelan Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Delcy Rodríguez">Delcy Rodríguez</a> said that President <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> plans to publicly renounce Venezuela's membership on 27 April 2017. It will take two years for the country to formally leave. During this period, the country does not plan on participating in the OAS.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela is involved in a long-standing disagreement about the control of the <a href="/wiki/Guayana_Esequiba" class="mw-redirect" title="Guayana Esequiba">Guayana Esequiba</a> area. </p><p>Venezuela may suffer a deterioration of its power in international affairs if the global <a href="/wiki/Energy_transition" title="Energy transition">transition to renewable energy</a> is completed. It is ranked 151 out of 156 countries in the index of Geopolitical Gains and Losses after energy transition (GeGaLo).<sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela is a charter member of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> (UN), <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_States" title="Organization of American States">Organization of American States</a> (OAS), <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations" title="Union of South American Nations">Union of South American Nations</a> (UNASUR), <a href="/wiki/ALBA" title="ALBA">Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America</a> (ALBA), <a href="/wiki/Mercosur" title="Mercosur">Mercosur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin_American_Integration_Association" title="Latin American Integration Association">Latin American Integration Association</a> (LAIA) and <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Ibero-American_States" title="Organization of Ibero-American States">Organization of Ibero-American States</a> (OEI). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military">Military</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/National_Bolivarian_Armed_Forces_of_Venezuela" title="National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela">National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_(2018-04-03)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg/330px-Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg/440px-Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez_%282018-04-03%29_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption>General-in-chief <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Padrino_L%C3%B3pez" title="Vladimir Padrino López">Vladimir Padrino López</a> in his uniform with visible insignia</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg/220px-Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg/330px-Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg/440px-Venezuelan_Air_Force_Sukhoi_SU-30MK2_AADPR-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="721" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30" title="Sukhoi Su-30">Sukhoi Su-30</a>MKV of the Venezuelan Air Force</figcaption></figure> <p>The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (<i>Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana</i>, FANB) are the unified military forces of Venezuela. It includes over 320,150 men and women, under Article 328 of the Constitution, in five components of ground, sea and air. The components of the FANB are: the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Army">Venezuelan Army</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Navy">Venezuelan Navy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Air Force">Venezuelan Air Force</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan National Guard">Venezuelan National Guard</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_National_Militia" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan National Militia">Venezuelan National Militia</a>. As of 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venezuela&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, a further 600,000 soldiers were incorporated into a new branch, known as the Armed Reserve. </p><p>The president of Venezuela is the <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-chief" title="Commander-in-chief">commander-in-chief</a> of the FANB. Its main purposes are to defend the sovereign national territory of Venezuela, airspace, and islands, fight against drug trafficking, search and rescue and, in the case of a natural disaster, civil protection. All male citizens of Venezuela have a constitutional duty to register for the military service at 18, which is the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_majority" title="Age of majority">age of majority</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Law_and_crime">Law and crime</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Venezuela" title="Law of Venezuela">Law of Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela" title="Crime in Venezuela">Crime in Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:334px;max-width:334px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:332px;max-width:332px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/330px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/495px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png/660px-1998_to_2018_Venezuela_Murder_Rate.png 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1529" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Murder rate (murder per 100,000 citizens) from 1998 to 2018. <br />Sources: OVV,<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FUSIONmr_240-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FUSIONmr-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> PROVEA,<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2011_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2011-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2014_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2014-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> UN<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2011_241-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2011-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNODC2014_242-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC2014-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AFP2012_243-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFP2012-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br /> <b>*</b> UN line between 2007 and 2012 is simulated missing data.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:332px;max-width:332px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_(Presidents).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/330px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/495px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png/660px-Number_of_kidnappings_in_Venezuela_1989_to_present_%28Presidents%29.png 2x" data-file-width="2250" data-file-height="1400" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Number of kidnappings in Venezuela 1989–2011.<br />Source: <a href="/wiki/Cuerpo_de_Investigaciones_Cient%C3%ADficas,_Penales_y_Criminal%C3%ADsticas" title="Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas">CICPC</a><sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CICPC2009_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CICPC2009-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br /><b>*</b> <a href="/wiki/Express_kidnapping" title="Express kidnapping">Express kidnappings</a> may not be included in data.</div></div></div></div></div> <p>In Venezuela, a person is murdered every 21 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Violent crimes have been so prevalent in Venezuela that the government no longer produces the crime data.<sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, the homicide rate was approximately 79 per 100,000, one of the world's highest, having quadrupled in the past 15 years with over 200,000 people murdered.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2015, it had risen to 90 per 100,000.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCVenezuela_250-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCVenezuela-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The capital Caracas has one of the greatest homicide rates of any large city in the world, with 122 homicides per 100,000 residents.<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2008, polls indicated that crime was the number one concern of voters.<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Attempts at fighting crime such as Operation Liberation of the People were implemented to crack down on gang-controlled areas<sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but, of reported criminal acts, less than 2% are prosecuted.<sup id="cite_ref-Finnegan_254-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finnegan-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2017, the <i>Financial Times</i> noted that some of the arms procured by the government over the previous two decades had been diverted to paramilitary civilian groups and criminal syndicates.<sup id="cite_ref-broken_system_217-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-broken_system-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela is especially dangerous for foreign travelers and investors who are visiting. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada">Government of Canada</a> have warned foreign visitors that they may be subjected to robbery, kidnapping<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and murder, and that their own diplomatic travelers are required to travel in <a href="/wiki/Armored_vehicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored vehicles">armored vehicles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The United Kingdom's <a href="/wiki/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign and Commonwealth Office">Foreign and Commonwealth Office</a> has advised against all travel to Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Visitors have been murdered during robberies.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are approximately 33 prisons holding about 50,000 inmates.<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's prison system is heavily overcrowded; its facilities have capacity for only 14,000 prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_rights">Human rights</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela" title="Human rights in Venezuela">Human rights in Venezuela</a></div> <p>Human rights organizations such as <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> have increasingly criticized Venezuela's human rights record, with the former organization noting in 2017 that the Chavez and subsequently the Maduro government have increasingly concentrated power in the executive branch, eroded constitutional human rights protections and allowed the government to persecute and repress its critics and opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other persistent concerns as noted by the report included poor prison conditions, the continuous <a href="/wiki/Mass_media_in_Venezuela" title="Mass media in Venezuela">harassment of independent media</a> and human rights defenders by the government. In 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Economist_Intelligence_Unit" title="Economist Intelligence Unit">Economist Intelligence Unit</a> rated Venezuela a "hybrid regime" and the third least democratic regime in Latin America on the <a href="/wiki/Democracy_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Democracy Index">Democracy Index</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Democracy index downgraded Venezuela to an authoritarian regime in 2017, citing continued increasingly dictatorial behaviors by the Maduro government.<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corruption">Corruption</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Corruption in Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf/page1-220px-Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf/page1-330px-Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf/page1-440px-Corrupt_Venezuelan_Regime.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1650" data-file-height="1275" /></a><figcaption>The <i><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Corrupt Venezuelan Regime</a></i>, according to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Corruption in Venezuela</a> is high by world standards and was so for much of the 20th century. The discovery of oil worsened political corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the late 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Pablo_P%C3%A9rez_Alfonso" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso">Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso</a>'s description of oil as "the Devil's excrement" had become a common expression in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" title="Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Perceptions Index</a> has ranked Venezuela as one of the most corrupt countries since the survey started in 1995. The 2010 ranking placed Venezuela at number 164, out of 178 ranked countries in government transparency.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2016, the rank had increased to 166 out of 178.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/World_Justice_Project" title="World Justice Project">World Justice Project</a> ranked Venezuela 99th out of 99 countries surveyed in its 2014 Rule of Law Index.<sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This corruption is shown with Venezuela's significant involvement in <a href="/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Venezuela" title="Illegal drug trade in Venezuela">drug trafficking</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Colombian_cocaine" class="mw-redirect" title="Colombian cocaine">Colombian cocaine</a> and other drugs transiting Venezuela towards the United States and Europe. In the period 2003–2008 Venezuelan authorities seized the fifth-largest total quantity of cocaine in the world, behind Colombia, the United States, Spain and <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2006, the government's agency for combating illegal drug trade in Venezuela, <i><a href="/wiki/National_Anti-Drug_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="National Anti-Drug Office">ONA</a></i>, was incorporated into the office of the vice-president. However, many major government and military officials have been known for their involvement with drug trafficking.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela" title="Economy of Venezuela">Economy of Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Almost 82 per cent of Venezuelans live in poverty, with 53 per cent in extreme poverty, unable to buy even basic foodstuffs.</p><div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div><p>– A UN special rapporteur said in February 2024 after visiting the country.<sup id="cite_ref-u571_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-u571-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Venezuela was "once among South America's wealthiest countries" before the economic meltdown under Maduro regime.<sup id="cite_ref-gbnew2024jul_274-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gbnew2024jul-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>“The formerly rich petro-state has seen GDP fall by 80 percent in less than a decade, driving some seven million of its citizens to flee. Most Venezuelans live on just a few dollars a month, with the health care and education systems in total disrepair and biting shortages of electricity and fuel” as of 2024, according to <a href="/wiki/VOA" class="mw-redirect" title="VOA">VOA</a> (report from <a href="/wiki/Agence_France-Presse" title="Agence France-Presse">AFP</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-h998_275-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h998-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The country has a market-based <a href="/wiki/Mixed_economy" title="Mixed economy">mixed economy</a> dominated by the petroleum sector,<sup id="cite_ref-276" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-277" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which accounts for roughly a third of GDP, around 80% of exports, and more than half of government revenues. Per capita GDP for 2016 was estimated to be US$15,100, ranking 109th in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has the <a href="/wiki/Gasoline_usage_and_pricing" class="mw-redirect" title="Gasoline usage and pricing">least expensive petrol</a> in the world because the consumer price of petrol is heavily subsidized. The private sector controls two-thirds of Venezuela's economy.<sup id="cite_ref-278" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A part of the Venezuelan economy depends on <a href="/wiki/Remittance" title="Remittance">remittances</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Venezuela" title="Central Bank of Venezuela">Central Bank of Venezuela</a> is responsible for developing <a href="/wiki/Monetary_policy" title="Monetary policy">monetary policy</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar" title="Venezuelan bolívar">Venezuelan bolívar</a> which is used as currency. The president of the Central Bank of Venezuela serves as the country's representative in the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>. The U.S.-based conservative think tank <a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a> claims Venezuela has the weakest property rights in the world, scoring only 5.0 on a scale of 100; expropriation without compensation is not uncommon. </p><p>As of 2011, more than 60% of Venezuela's international reserves was in gold, eight times more than the average for the region. Most of Venezuela's gold held abroad was located in London. On 25 November 2011, the first of US$11&#160;billion of repatriated gold bullion arrived in Caracas; Chávez called the repatriation of gold a "sovereign" step that will help protect the country's foreign reserves from the turmoil in the U.S. and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-279" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However government policies quickly spent down this returned gold and in 2013 the government was forced to add the dollar reserves of state owned companies to those of the national bank to reassure the international bond market.<sup id="cite_ref-280" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tright" style=""><div class="thumbinner" style="width:352px"><div class="thumbimage noresize" style="width:350px;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Notice plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width:100%;margin:0;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="thumbcaption">Annual variation of real GDP according to the Central Bank of Venezuela (2016 preliminary)<sup id="cite_ref-BCV2016_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BCV2016-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div></div> <p>Manufacturing contributed 17% of GDP in 2006. Venezuela manufactures and exports heavy industry products such as steel, aluminium and cement, with production concentrated around <a href="/wiki/Ciudad_Guayana" title="Ciudad Guayana">Ciudad Guayana</a>, near the <a href="/wiki/Guri_Dam" title="Guri Dam">Guri Dam</a>, one of the largest in the world and the provider of about three-quarters of Venezuela's electricity. Other notable manufacturing includes <a href="/wiki/Electronics" title="Electronics">electronics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Automobiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Automobiles">automobiles</a>, as well as beverages, and <a href="/wiki/Foodstuff" class="mw-redirect" title="Foodstuff">foodstuffs</a>. <a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Venezuela" title="Agriculture in Venezuela">Agriculture in Venezuela</a> accounts for approximately 3% of GDP, 10% of the labor force, and at least a quarter of Venezuela's land area. The country is not self-sufficient in most areas of agriculture.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Since the discovery of oil in the early 20th century, Venezuela has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil, and it is a founding member of <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>. Previously an underdeveloped exporter of agricultural commodities, oil quickly came to dominate exports and government revenues. The 1980s oil glut led to an external debt crisis and a long-running economic crisis, which saw inflation peak at 100% in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKellyPalma2006207_283-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKellyPalma2006207-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The 1990s also saw Venezuela experience a <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_banking_crisis_of_1994" title="Venezuelan banking crisis of 1994">major banking crisis in 1994</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg/220px-Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg/330px-Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg/440px-Los_Dos_Caminos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1887" data-file-height="1474" /></a><figcaption>Millenium Mall, one of the main <a href="/wiki/Shopping_centers" class="mw-redirect" title="Shopping centers">shopping centers</a> in <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a></figcaption></figure><p> The recovery of oil prices after 2001 boosted the Venezuelan economy and facilitated social spending. With social programs such as the <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Missions" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivarian Missions">Bolivarian Missions</a>, Venezuela initially made progress in social development in the 2000s, particularly in areas such as health, education, and poverty. Many of the social policies pursued by Chávez and his administration were jump-started by the <a href="/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals" title="Millennium Development Goals">Millennium Development Goals</a>, eight goals that Venezuela and 188 other nations agreed to in September 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-284" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The sustainability of the Bolivarian Missions has been questioned due to the Bolivarian state's overspending on public works and because the Chávez government did not save funds for future economic hardships, with economic issues and poverty rising as a result of their policies in the 2010s.<sup id="cite_ref-ELPAISfeb2015_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELPAISfeb2015-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CSM25march_285-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSM25march-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FPdontblame_286-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPdontblame-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2003 the government of Hugo Chávez implemented currency controls after capital flight led to a devaluation of the currency. This led to the development of a parallel market of dollars in the subsequent years. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a> led to a renewed economic downturn. Despite controversial data shared by the Venezuelan government showing that the country had halved malnutrition following one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals,<sup id="cite_ref-ECONeatCHAVISMO_118-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECONeatCHAVISMO-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> shortages of staple goods began to occur in Venezuela and malnutrition began to increase.<sup id="cite_ref-ECONeatCHAVISMO_118-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECONeatCHAVISMO-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SaltoAngel1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/SaltoAngel1.jpg/220px-SaltoAngel1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/SaltoAngel1.jpg/330px-SaltoAngel1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/SaltoAngel1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="392" data-file-height="598" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Angel_Falls" title="Angel Falls">Ángel Falls</a> is one of Venezuela's top tourist attractions and the world's highest waterfall, located in the <a href="/wiki/Canaima_National_Park" title="Canaima National Park">Canaima National Park</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In early 2013, Venezuela devalued its currency due to growing shortages in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-Devalue-Currency_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-Devalue-Currency-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:8_288-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The shortages included, and still include, necessities such as toilet paper, milk, and flour.<sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian-Food-Shortages_117-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian-Food-Shortages-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Fears rose so high due to the toilet paper shortage that the government occupied a toilet paper factory, and continued plans to nationalize other industrial aspects like food distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-289" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-290" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's bond ratings have also decreased multiple times in 2013 due to decisions by the president Nicolás Maduro.<sup id="cite_ref-291" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2016, consumer prices in Venezuela increased 800% and the economy declined by 18.6%, entering an <a href="/wiki/Economic_depression" title="Economic depression">economic depression</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-292" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela's outlook was deemed negative by most bond-rating services in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-294" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-295" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For 2018 an inflation rate of 1,000,000 percent was projected, putting Venezuela in a similar situation to that in Germany in 1923 or Zimbabwe in the late 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-296" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism">Tourism</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Venezuela" title="Tourism in Venezuela">Tourism in Venezuela</a></div> <p>Tourism has been developed considerably in recent decades, particularly because of its favorable geographical position, the variety of landscapes, the richness of plant and <a href="/wiki/Wildlife" title="Wildlife">wildlife</a>, the culture and the tropical climate. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Margarita_Island" title="Margarita Island">Margarita Island</a> is one of the top tourist destinations. It is an island with a modern infrastructure, bordered by beaches suitable for extreme sports, and features castles, fortresses and churches of great cultural value. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Los_Roques_Archipelago" title="Los Roques Archipelago">Los Roques Archipelago</a> is made up of a set of islands and keys that constitute one of the main tourist attractions in the country. With exotic crystalline beaches, Morrocoy is a national park, formed by small keys very close to the mainland, which have grown rapidly as one of the greatest tourist attractions in the Venezuelan Caribbean.<sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG/256px-Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG" decoding="async" width="256" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG/384px-Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG/512px-Parque_Nacional_Mochima2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="562" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mochima_National_Park" title="Mochima National Park">Mochima National Park</a>, Eastern Venezuela</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Canaima_National_Park" title="Canaima National Park">Canaima National Park</a><sup id="cite_ref-298" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> extends over 30,000&#160;km<sup>2</sup> to the border with Guyana and Brazil; due to its size it is considered the sixth largest national park in the world. Its steep cliffs and waterfalls (including Angel Falls, which is the highest waterfall in the world, at 1,002 m) form spectacular landscapes. </p><p>The state of <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_(state)" title="Mérida (state)">Mérida</a><sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is one of the main tourist centers of Venezuela. It has an extensive network of hotels not only in its capital city, but also throughout the state. Starting from the same city of Mérida is the longest and highest cable car in the world, which reaches the Pico Espejo of 4,765 m. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shortages">Shortages</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela" title="Shortages in Venezuela">Shortages in Venezuela</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Shortages" class="mw-redirect" title="Shortages">Shortages</a> in Venezuela have been prevalent following the enactment of price controls and other policies during the <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government">economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-economist.com_300-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist.com-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-qz.com_301-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qz.com-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government">economic policy of the Nicolás Maduro government</a>, greater shortages occurred due to the Venezuelan government's policy of withholding United States dollars from importers with price controls.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJseptDOWNGRADE_302-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJseptDOWNGRADE-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Escasez_en_Venezuela,_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/220px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/330px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/440px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="3216" /></a><figcaption>Empty shelves in a store in Venezuela due to shortages in 2014</figcaption></figure><p>Shortages occur in regulated products, such as milk, various types of meat, coffee, rice, oil, flour, butter, and other goods including basic necessities like toilet paper, personal hygiene products, and even medicine.<sup id="cite_ref-economist.com_300-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist.com-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ACN_303-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ACN-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-El_Nuevo_Herald_304-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-El_Nuevo_Herald-304"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of the shortages, Venezuelans must search for food, wait in lines for hours and sometimes do without certain products.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_305-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-305"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-REUTjan2015_306-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REUTjan2015-306"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>302<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-307" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>303<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-308" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-308"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>304<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-309" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>305<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A drought, combined with a lack of planning and maintenance, has caused a hydroelectricity shortage. To deal with lack of power supply, in April 2016 the Maduro government announced rolling blackouts<sup id="cite_ref-310" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-310"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and reduced the government <a href="/wiki/Workweek" class="mw-redirect" title="Workweek">workweek</a> to only Monday and Tuesday.<sup id="cite_ref-311" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-311"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>307<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A multi-university study found that, in 2016 alone, about 75% of Venezuelans lost weight due to hunger, with the average losing about 8.6&#160;kg (19&#160;lbs) due to the lack of food.<sup id="cite_ref-UPIfeb17_312-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPIfeb17-312"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>308<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2017, Venezuela began having shortages of gasoline in some regions.<sup id="cite_ref-EImar17_313-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EImar17-313"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>309<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Petroleum_and_other_resources">Petroleum and other resources</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry" title="History of the Venezuelan oil industry">History of the Venezuelan oil industry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Venezuela" title="Energy policy of Venezuela">Energy policy of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil,_January_2018-December_2019.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png/220px-Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png/330px-Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png/440px-Venezuela%27s_exports_of_crude_oil%2C_January_2018-December_2019.png 2x" data-file-width="790" data-file-height="535" /></a><figcaption>Venezuela's exports of crude oil from January 2018 to December 2019<sup id="cite_ref-EIA-VEN_314-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA-VEN-314"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela has the largest oil reserves, and the eighth largest natural gas reserves in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-315" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-315"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Compared to the preceding year another 40.4% in crude oil reserves were proven in 2010, allowing Venezuela to surpass Saudi Arabia as the country with the largest reserves of this type.<sup id="cite_ref-316" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-316"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>312<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The country's main petroleum deposits are located around and beneath Lake Maracaibo, the Gulf of Venezuela (both in <a href="/wiki/Zulia_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Zulia State">Zulia</a>), and in the Orinoco River basin (<a href="/wiki/Orinoco#Eastern_Venezuelan_basin" title="Orinoco">eastern Venezuela</a>), where the country's largest reserve is located. Besides the largest conventional oil reserves and the second-largest natural gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere,<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_317-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-317"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>313<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has non-conventional oil deposits (<a href="/wiki/Heavy_crude_oil" title="Heavy crude oil">extra-heavy crude oil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bitumen" title="Bitumen">bitumen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tar_sands" class="mw-redirect" title="Tar sands">tar sands</a>) approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.<sup id="cite_ref-wec_318-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wec-318"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Venezuela" title="Electricity sector in Venezuela">electricity sector in Venezuela</a> is one of the few to rely primarily on <a href="/wiki/Hydropower" title="Hydropower">hydropower</a>, and includes the Guri Dam, one of the largest in the world. </p><p>In the first half of the 20th century, U.S. oil companies were heavily involved in Venezuela, initially interested only in purchasing concessions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYergin1991233–236,_432_319-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYergin1991233–236,_432-319"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>315<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1943 a new government introduced a 50/50 split in profits between the government and the oil industry. In 1960, with a newly installed democratic government, Hydrocarbons Minister Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso led the creation of OPEC, the consortium of oil-producing countries aiming to support the price of oil.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYergin1991510–513_320-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYergin1991510–513-320"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>316<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oil_Reserves_Updated.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Oil_Reserves_Updated.png/300px-Oil_Reserves_Updated.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Oil_Reserves_Updated.png/450px-Oil_Reserves_Updated.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Oil_Reserves_Updated.png/600px-Oil_Reserves_Updated.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="364" /></a><figcaption>A map of world <a href="/wiki/Oil_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil reserves">oil reserves</a> according to OPEC, 2013. Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1973, Venezuela voted to nationalize its oil industry outright, effective 1 January 1976, with <a href="/wiki/Petr%C3%B3leos_de_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Petróleos de Venezuela">Petróleos de Venezuela</a> (PDVSA) taking over and presiding over a number of holding companies; in subsequent years, Venezuela built a vast refining and marketing system in the U.S. and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYergin1991767_321-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYergin1991767-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>317<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the 1990s PDVSA became more independent from the government and presided over an <i>apertura</i> (opening) in which it invited in foreign investment. Under Hugo Chávez a 2001 law placed limits on foreign investment. PDVSA played a key role in the December 2002 – February 2003 national strike. As a result of the strike, around 40% of the company's workforce (around 18,000 workers) were dismissed.<sup id="cite_ref-322" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-322"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>318<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport">Transport</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Venezuela" title="Transport in Venezuela">Transport in Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Los_Jardines_(Caracas_metro).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg/220px-Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg/330px-Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg/440px-Los_Jardines_%28Caracas_metro%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Caracas_Metro" title="Caracas Metro">Caracas Metro</a> in Los Jardines Station</figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela is connected to the world primarily via air (<a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Venezuela" title="List of airports in Venezuela">Venezuela's airports</a> include the <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_International_Airport_(Venezuela)" title="Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela)">Simón Bolívar International Airport</a> in Maiquetía, near Caracas and <a href="/wiki/La_Chinita_International_Airport" title="La Chinita International Airport">La Chinita International Airport</a> near <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a>) and sea (with major seaports at La Guaira, Maracaibo and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Cabello" title="Puerto Cabello">Puerto Cabello</a>). In the south and east the Amazon rainforest region has limited cross-border transport; in the west, there is a mountainous border of over 2,213 kilometres (1,375&#160;mi) shared with Colombia. The <a href="/wiki/Orinoco" title="Orinoco">Orinoco</a> River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to 400 kilometres (250&#160;mi) inland and connects the major industrial city of Ciudad Guayana to the Atlantic Ocean. </p><p>Venezuela has a limited <a href="/wiki/Instituto_de_Ferrocarriles_del_Estado" class="mw-redirect" title="Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado">national railway system</a>, which has no active rail connections to other countries. The government of Hugo Chávez tried to invest in expanding it, but Venezuela's rail project is on hold due to Venezuela not being able to pay the $7.5&#160;billion<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (April 2017)">clarification needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> and owing <a href="/wiki/China_Railway" title="China Railway">China Railway</a> nearly $500&#160;million.<sup id="cite_ref-323" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-323"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>319<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Several major cities have metro systems; the Caracas Metro has been operating since 1983. The <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo_Metro" title="Maracaibo Metro">Maracaibo Metro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Valencia_Metro_(Venezuela)" title="Valencia Metro (Venezuela)">Valencia Metro</a> were opened more recently. Venezuela has a road network of nearly 100,000 kilometres (62,000&#160;mi), placing the country <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_network_size" title="List of countries by road network size">around 45th in the world</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-324" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-324"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>320<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> around a third of roads are paved. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Utilities">Utilities</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Venezuela" title="Electricity sector in Venezuela">Electricity sector in Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <span class="anonymous-show"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AVenezuela&amp;preload=Template%3ASubmit+an+edit+request%2Fpreload&amp;action=edit&amp;section=new&amp;editintro=Template%3AEdit+protected%2Feditintro&amp;preloadtitle=Protected+edit+request+on+27+November+2024&amp;preloadparams%5B%5D=edit+fully-protected&amp;preloadparams%5B%5D=Venezuela">making an edit request</a></span></span><span class="user-show"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venezuela&amp;action=edit&amp;section=">adding to it</a> </span>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The electricity sector in Venezuela is heavily dependent on <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectricity</a>, with this energy source accounting for 64% of the country's electricity generation in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-EIA-VEN_314-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA-VEN-314"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Venezuela" title="Demographics of Venezuela">Demographics of Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Venezuela" title="List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela">List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela</a></div> <p>Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America;<sup id="cite_ref-encartaSA_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encartaSA-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNpopstats_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNpopstats-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north, especially in the capital Caracas, which is also the largest city. About 93% of the population lives in urban areas in northern Venezuela; 73% live less than 100 kilometres (62&#160;mi) from the coastline.<sup id="cite_ref-325" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-325"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>321<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Though almost half of Venezuela's land area lies south of the Orinoco, only 5% of Venezuelans live there. The largest and most important city south of the Orinoco is <a href="/wiki/Ciudad_Guayana" title="Ciudad Guayana">Ciudad Guayana</a>, which is the sixth most populous <a href="/wiki/Conurbation" title="Conurbation">conurbation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-326" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-326"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>322<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other major cities include <a href="/wiki/Barquisimeto" title="Barquisimeto">Barquisimeto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valencia,_Carabobo" class="mw-redirect" title="Valencia, Carabobo">Valencia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maracay" title="Maracay">Maracay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barcelona-Puerto_La_Cruz" title="Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz">Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz</a>, <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_M%C3%A9rida" title="Mérida, Mérida">Mérida</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal,_T%C3%A1chira" title="San Cristóbal, Táchira">San Cristóbal</a>. </p><p>According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects<sup id="cite_ref-UN_WPP_327-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP-327"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>323<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UN_WPP_2022_328-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP_2022-328"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>324<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the total population was 28,199,867 in 2021. A 2014 study by sociologists of the <a href="/wiki/Central_University_of_Venezuela" title="Central University of Venezuela">Central University of Venezuela</a> found over 1.5&#160;million Venezuelans, or about 4% to 6% of the country's population, have left Venezuela since 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-ENHaug28_329-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ENHaug28-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>325<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Elimpulso23AUG_330-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elimpulso23AUG-330"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>326<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnicity">Ethnicity</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan people">Venezuelan people</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png/220px-Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png/330px-Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png/440px-Spaniards_in_Venezuela_by_state.png 2x" data-file-width="4280" data-file-height="4353" /></a><figcaption>Map showing the proportion of the Venezuelan population which has the Spanish nationality or people who are residing in Venezuela which are declared as Spanish or people with declared Iberian Spanish ancestry</figcaption></figure> <p>The people of Venezuela come from a variety of ancestries. It is estimated that the majority of the population is of <a href="/wiki/Pardo" title="Pardo">pardo</a>, or mixed, ethnic ancestry. In the 2011 census, which Venezuelans were asked to identify themselves according to their customs and ancestry, the term <i>pardo</i> was excluded from the answers. The majority claimed to be <a href="/wiki/Moreno_Venezuelans" title="Moreno Venezuelans">moreno</a> or <a href="/wiki/White_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="White Venezuelan">white</a>—51.6% and 43.6%, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-Census-ethnics_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census-ethnics-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moreno" class="extiw" title="wikt:moreno">moreno</a></i>, a term used throughout Ibero-America that in this case means "dark-skinned" or "brown-skinned", as opposed to having a <a href="/wiki/Light_skin" title="Light skin">lighter skin</a>. </p><p>Ethnic minorities in Venezuela consist of groups that descend mainly from African or Indigenous peoples; 2.8% identified themselves as "black" and 0.7% as <i>afrodescendiente</i> (Afro-descendant), 2.6% claimed to belong to Indigenous peoples, and 1.2% answered "other races".<sup id="cite_ref-Census-ethnics_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census-ethnics-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among Indigenous people, 58% were <a href="/wiki/Way%C3%BAu" class="mw-redirect" title="Wayúu">Wayúu</a>, 7% <a href="/wiki/Warao_people" title="Warao people">Warao</a>, 5% <a href="/wiki/Kari%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="Kariña">Kariña</a>, 4% <a href="/wiki/Pemon" title="Pemon">Pemón</a>, 3% <a href="/wiki/Piaroa" class="mw-redirect" title="Piaroa">Piaroa</a>, 3% <a href="/wiki/Jivi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jivi">Jivi</a>, 3% <a href="/wiki/A%C3%B1u" class="mw-redirect" title="Añu">Añu</a>, 3% <a href="/wiki/Cuman%C3%A1goto" class="mw-redirect" title="Cumanágoto">Cumanágoto</a>, 2% <a href="/wiki/Yukpa" class="mw-redirect" title="Yukpa">Yukpa</a>, 2% <a href="/wiki/Chaima" title="Chaima">Chaima</a> and 1% <a href="/wiki/Yanomami" title="Yanomami">Yanomami</a>; the remaining 9% consisted of other Indigenous nations.<sup id="cite_ref-331" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-331"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>327<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to an autosomal DNA study conducted in 2008 by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bras%C3%ADlia" title="University of Brasília">University of Brasília</a>, the composition of Venezuela's population is 60.60% European, 23% Indigenous, and 16.30% African.<sup id="cite_ref-332" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-332"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>328<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:392px;max-width:392px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:194px;max-width:194px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:159px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_2011_Moreno_(Brown)_population_proportion_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png/192px-Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png" decoding="async" width="192" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png/288px-Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png/384px-Venezuela_2011_Moreno_%28Brown%29_population_proportion_map.png 2x" data-file-width="4484" data-file-height="3729" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Mestizos_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Mestizos in Venezuela">Moreno (Mestizo)</a> population of Venezuela in 2011</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:194px;max-width:194px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:159px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png/192px-Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png" decoding="async" width="192" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png/288px-Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png/384px-Venezuela_2011_White_population_proportion_map.png 2x" data-file-width="4453" data-file-height="3708" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/White_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="White Venezuelan">White</a> population of Venezuela in 2011</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:195px;max-width:195px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:158px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png/193px-Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png" decoding="async" width="193" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png/290px-Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png/386px-Venezuela_2011_Ameridian_population_proportion_map.png 2x" data-file-width="4546" data-file-height="3750" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Venezuela" title="Indigenous peoples in Venezuela">Amerindian</a> population of Venezuela in 2011</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:193px;max-width:193px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:158px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png/191px-Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png" decoding="async" width="191" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png/287px-Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png/382px-Venezuela_2011_Black_and_Afrodescendant_population_proportion_map.png 2x" data-file-width="4431" data-file-height="3682" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Black_Venezuelan" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Venezuelan">Black and Afrodescendant</a> population of Venezuela in 2011</div></div></div></div></div> <p>During the colonial period and until after the Second World War, many of the European immigrants to Venezuela came from the <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-333" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-333"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>329<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Spaniards_in_Venezuela" title="Spaniards in Venezuela">Spain</a><sup id="cite_ref-334" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-334"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>330<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with a relevant amount of <a href="/wiki/Galicians" title="Galicians">Galicians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asturians" title="Asturians">Asturians</a>. These immigrants from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> had a significant cultural impact on the cuisine and customs of Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-335" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-335"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>331<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-336" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-336"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-337" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-337"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>333<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These influences on Venezuela have led to the nation being called the 8th island of the Canaries.<sup id="cite_ref-338" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>334<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-339" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>335<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With the start of oil exploitation in the early 20th century, companies from the United States began establishing operations in Venezuela, bringing with them U.S. citizens. Later, during and after the war, new waves of immigrants from other parts of Europe, the Middle East, and China began; many were encouraged by government-established <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Venezuela" title="Immigration to Venezuela">immigration programs</a> and lenient immigration policies.<sup id="cite_ref-Romero2010_340-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romero2010-340"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>336<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 20th century, Venezuela, along with the rest of Latin America, received millions of immigrants from Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-PadillaPeixoto2007_341-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PadillaPeixoto2007-341"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>337<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was especially true post-World War II, as a consequence of war-ridden Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-PadillaPeixoto2007_341-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PadillaPeixoto2007-341"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>337<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brooke1992_342-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooke1992-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 1970s, while experiencing an oil-export boom, Venezuela received millions of immigrants from Ecuador, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-Brooke1992_342-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooke1992-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Due to the belief that this immigration influx depressed wages, some Venezuelans opposed European immigration.<sup id="cite_ref-Brooke1992_342-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooke1992-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Venezuelan government, however, were actively recruiting immigrants from Eastern Europe to fill a need for engineers. Millions of Colombians, as well as Middle Eastern and Haitian populations would continue immigrating to Venezuela into the early 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-Romero2010_340-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romero2010-340"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>336<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <i>World Refugee Survey 2008</i>, published by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Venezuela hosted a population of <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugee</a> and asylum seekers from Colombia numbering 252,200 in 2007, and 10,600 new asylum seekers entered Venezuela in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Refugee_Survey_2008_343-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Refugee_Survey_2008-343"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>339<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Between 500,000 and one million <a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigrant" class="mw-redirect" title="Illegal immigrant">illegal immigrants</a> are estimated to be living in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-344" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>340<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The total Indigenous population of the country is estimated at 500 thousand people (2.8% of the total), distributed among 40 Indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-345" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-345"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>341<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There are three <a href="/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples" title="Uncontacted peoples">uncontacted tribes</a> living in Venezuela. The Constitution recognizes the multi-ethnic, pluri-cultural, and multilingual character of the country and includes a chapter devoted to Indigenous peoples' rights, which opened up spaces for their political inclusion at national and local level in 1999. Most Indigenous peoples are concentrated in eight states along Venezuela's borders with Brazil, Guyana, and Colombia, and the majority groups are the <a href="/wiki/Wayuu_people" title="Wayuu people">Wayuu</a> in the west, the <a href="/wiki/Warao_people" title="Warao people">Warao</a> in the east, the <a href="/wiki/Yanomami" title="Yanomami">Yanomami</a> installed in the south, and the <a href="/wiki/Pemon" title="Pemon">Pemon</a> which are mostly in the southeast of Venezuela. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Venezuela" title="Languages of Venezuela">Languages of Venezuela</a></div> <p>Although most residents are monolingual Spanish speakers, many languages are spoken in Venezuela. In addition to Spanish, the Constitution recognizes more than thirty Indigenous languages, including <a href="/wiki/Wayuu_language" title="Wayuu language">Wayuu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warao_language" title="Warao language">Warao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pemon_language" title="Pemon language">Pemón</a>, and many others for the official use of the Indigenous peoples, mostly with few speakers – less than 1% of the total population. Wayuu is the most spoken Indigenous language, with 170,000 speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-Ethnologue_346-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnologue-346"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>342<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG/250px-Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG/375px-Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG/500px-Palacio_de_las_Academias.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Academia_Venezolana_de_la_Lengua" title="Academia Venezolana de la Lengua">Venezuelan Academy of Language</a> studies the development of the Spanish in the country.</figcaption></figure> <p>Immigrants, in addition to Spanish, speak their own languages. Chinese (400,000), <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> (254,000),<sup id="cite_ref-Ethnologue_346-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnologue-346"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>342<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Italian (200,000)<sup id="cite_ref-347" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-347"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>343<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> are the most-spoken languages in Venezuela after the official language of Spanish. Arabic is spoken by Lebanese and Syrian colonies on <a href="/wiki/Margarita_Island" title="Margarita Island">Isla de Margarita</a>, Maracaibo, <a href="/wiki/Punto_Fijo" title="Punto Fijo">Punto Fijo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_la_Cruz" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto la Cruz">Puerto la Cruz</a>, El Tigre, <a href="/wiki/Maracay" title="Maracay">Maracay</a>, and Caracas. Portuguese is spoken not only by the Portuguese community in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Elena_de_Uair%C3%A9n" title="Santa Elena de Uairén">Santa Elena de Uairén</a> but also by much of the population due to its proximity to Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-348" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-348"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>344<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The German community speaks their native language, while the people of <a href="/wiki/Colonia_Tovar" title="Colonia Tovar">Colonia Tovar</a> speak mostly an <a href="/wiki/Alemannic_German" title="Alemannic German">Alemannic</a> dialect of German called <a href="/wiki/Colonia_Tovar_dialect" title="Colonia Tovar dialect"><i>alemán coloniero</i></a>. </p><p>English is the most widely used foreign language in demand and is spoken by many professionals, academics, and members of the upper and middle classes as a result of the oil exploration by foreign companies, in addition to its acceptance as a <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a>. Culturally, English is common in southern towns like <a href="/wiki/El_Callao_Municipality" title="El Callao Municipality">El Callao</a>, and the native English-speaking (English-creole speaking) influence is evident in folk and calypso songs from the region. Various dialects of Eastern-Caribbean English-based creoles were brought to Venezuela by <a href="/wiki/Trinidadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinidadian">Trinidadian</a> and other <a href="/wiki/British_West_Indies" title="British West Indies">British West Indies</a> immigrants,<sup id="cite_ref-349" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-349"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>345<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> they are collectively referred to as <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_English_Creole" title="Venezuelan English Creole">Venezuelan English Creole</a>. A variety of <a href="/wiki/Antillean_Creole" title="Antillean Creole">Antillean Creole</a> is spoken by a small community in El Callao and <a href="/wiki/Paria_Peninsula" title="Paria Peninsula">Paria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-350" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-350"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>346<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Italian language teaching is delivered by private Venezuelan schools and institutions. Other languages spoken by large communities in the country are <a href="/wiki/Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a> and <a href="/wiki/Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a>, among others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Venezuela" title="Religion in Venezuela">Religion in Venezuela</a></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 1589.4544843865px; 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top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 106.48918403248px; border-left-color:DodgerBlue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:DodgerBlue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:DodgerBlue"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;right:100px; top:100px; border-width:96.858316112863px 24.868988716485px 0 0; border-top-color:Blue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Blue"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Religion in Venezuela (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-grumilla_351-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grumilla-351"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Blue; color:white;">&#160;</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Catholic</a> (71%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DodgerBlue; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> (17%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:LightGray; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">No religion</a> (7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:yellow; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;Other religion (3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;No answer (1%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p>According to a 2011 poll, 88% of the population is Christian, primarily <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> (71%), and the remaining 17% <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>, primarily <a href="/wiki/Evangelicals" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelicals">Evangelicals</a> (in Latin America Protestants are usually called <i>"evangélicos"</i>). 8% of Venezuelans are irreligious. Almost 3% of the population follow another religion (1% of these people practice <a href="/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa" title="Santería">Santería</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-grumilla_351-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grumilla-351"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are small but influential Muslim, <a href="/wiki/Druze" title="Druze">Druze</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7_352-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7-352"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>348<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-353" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-353"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>349<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Buddhist, and Jewish communities. The Muslim community of more than 100,000 is concentrated among persons of <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_people" title="Lebanese people">Lebanese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syrian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian people">Syrian</a> descent living in <a href="/wiki/Nueva_Esparta" title="Nueva Esparta">Nueva Esparta</a> state, <a href="/wiki/Punto_Fijo" title="Punto Fijo">Punto Fijo</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a> area. Venezuela is home of the largest Druze communities outside the Middle East,<sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_354-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>350<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Druze" title="Druze">Druze</a> community are estimated around 60,000,<sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_354-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>350<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and concentrated among persons of <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_people" title="Lebanese people">Lebanese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syrian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian people">Syrian</a> descent.<sup id="cite_ref-355" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-355"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>351<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7_352-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7-352"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>348<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Buddhism is practiced by over 52,000 people. The Buddhist community is made up mainly of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people. </p><p>The Jewish community has shrunk in recent years due to rising economic pressures and <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Venezuela" title="Antisemitism in Venezuela">antisemitism in Venezuela</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Hurricane_356-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hurricane-356"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>352<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SRI_357-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SRI-357"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>353<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-358" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-358"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>354<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-359" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-359"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with the population declining from 22,000 in 1999<sup id="cite_ref-TOERaid_360-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TOERaid-360"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>356<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to less than 7,000 in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-AJjan2015_361-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJjan2015-361"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>357<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health">Health</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Health_care_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care in Venezuela">Health care in Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mission_Barrio_Adentro" title="Mission Barrio Adentro">Mission Barrio Adentro</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas,_UCV,_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg/234px-Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="234" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg/351px-Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg/468px-Camineria_hacia_el_Hospital_Universitario_de_Caracas%2C_UCV%2C_Venezuela_septiembre_2023_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3060" data-file-height="4080" /></a><figcaption>University Hospital, <a href="/wiki/Central_University_of_Venezuela" title="Central University of Venezuela">Central University of Venezuela</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Venezuela has a national <a href="/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">universal health care</a> system. The current government has created a program to expand access to health care known as <a href="/wiki/Mission_Barrio_Adentro" title="Mission Barrio Adentro">Misión Barrio Adentro</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Venezuela_Information_Office_362-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venezuela_Information_Office-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>358<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-363" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-363"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>359<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although its efficiency and work conditions have been criticized.<sup id="cite_ref-MBAeu_364-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBAeu-364"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>360<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-365" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-365"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>361<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABCnov2014_366-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCnov2014-366"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>362<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of December 2014 an estimated 80% of Barrio Adentro establishments in Venezuela are abandoned.<sup id="cite_ref-367" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-367"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>363<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LPdec2014_368-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LPdec2014-368"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>364<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Infant_mortality" title="Infant mortality">Infant mortality</a> in Venezuela was 19 deaths per 1,000 births for 2014 which was lower than the South American average (To compare: The U.S. figure was 6 deaths per 1,000 births in 2013).<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Child <a href="/wiki/Malnutrition" title="Malnutrition">malnutrition</a> was 17%. <a href="/wiki/Delta_Amacuro" title="Delta Amacuro">Delta Amacuro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amazonas_(Venezuelan_state)" title="Amazonas (Venezuelan state)">Amazonas</a> had the nation's highest rates.<sup id="cite_ref-369" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-369"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>365<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the United Nations, 32% of Venezuelans lacked adequate sanitation, primarily those living in rural areas.<sup id="cite_ref-370" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-370"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>366<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Diseases ranging from <a href="/wiki/Diphtheria" title="Diphtheria">diphtheria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plague_(disease)" title="Plague (disease)">plague</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Finnegan_254-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finnegan-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Typhoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Typhoid">typhoid</a> fever, <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever" title="Yellow fever">yellow fever</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_A" title="Hepatitis A">hepatitis A</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_B" title="Hepatitis B">hepatitis B</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_D" title="Hepatitis D">hepatitis D</a> were present in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian1_371-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian1-371"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Obesity" title="Obesity">Obesity</a> was prevalent in approximately 30% of the adult population.<sup id="cite_ref-ciawfb_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ciawfb-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela had a total of 150 <a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Venezuela" title="Water supply and sanitation in Venezuela">sewage treatment plants</a>; 13% of the population lacked access to drinking water, but this number had been dropping.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChávez2004_372-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChávez2004-372"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>368<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable secondary sources. (October 2022)">non-primary source needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>During the economic crisis observed under President Maduro's presidency, medical professionals were forced to perform outdated treatments on patients.<sup id="cite_ref-373" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-373"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>369<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Venezuela" title="Education in Venezuela">Education in Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg/220px-Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg/330px-Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg/440px-Illiteracy_in_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="443" data-file-height="365" /></a><figcaption>Illiteracy rate in Venezuela based on data from UNESCO<sup id="cite_ref-unesco1988_374-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco1988-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>370<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-unesco-uis_375-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-uis-375"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>371<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Venezuela<sup id="cite_ref-ortega_376-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ortega-376"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>372<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2008, 95.2% of the adult population was literate.<sup id="cite_ref-hdrstats.undp.org_377-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdrstats.undp.org-377"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>373<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The net primary school enrollment rate was at 91% and the net secondary school enrollment rate was at 63% in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-hdrstats.undp.org_377-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdrstats.undp.org-377"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>373<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has a number of universities, of which the most prestigious are the <a href="/wiki/Central_University_of_Venezuela" title="Central University of Venezuela">Central University of Venezuela</a> founded in 1721, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Zulia" title="University of Zulia">University of Zulia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Andes_(Venezuela)" title="University of the Andes (Venezuela)">University of the Andes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_University_(Venezuela)" title="Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela)">Simón Bolívar University</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Universidad_de_Oriente" title="Universidad de Oriente">University of the East</a>. </p><p>Currently, many Venezuelan graduates seek a future abroad because of the country's troubled economy and heavy crime rate. Over 1.35 million Venezuelan college graduates have left the country since the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution" title="Bolivarian Revolution">Bolivarian Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ENHaug28_329-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ENHaug28-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>325<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Elimpulso23AUG_330-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elimpulso23AUG-330"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>326<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is believed that nearly 12% of Venezuelans live abroad, with Ireland becoming a popular destination for students.<sup id="cite_ref-378" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-378"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>374<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Claudio Bifano, president of the Venezuelan Academy of Physical, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, more than half of all medical graduates had left Venezuela in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-379" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-379"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>375<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2018, over half of all Venezuelan children had <a href="/wiki/Dropped_out" class="mw-redirect" title="Dropped out">dropped out</a> of school, with 58% of students quitting nationwide while areas near bordering countries saw more than 80% of their students leave.<sup id="cite_ref-380" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-380"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>376<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_381-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-381"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>377<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Nationwide, about 93% of schools do not meet the minimum requirements to operate and 77% do not have utilities such as food, water or electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_381-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-381"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>377<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Venezuela" title="Culture of Venezuela">Culture of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joropo_foto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Joropo_foto.jpg/220px-Joropo_foto.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Joropo_foto.jpg/330px-Joropo_foto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Joropo_foto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="365" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Joropo" title="Joropo">Música Llanera</a> is the most popular folk genre, and the cowboy music, of Venezuela. Depiction of a Llanera band in 1912.</figcaption></figure> <p>The culture of Venezuela is a melting pot made up of three main groups: The Indigenous Venezuelans, the Africans, and the Spanish. </p><p>The Africans brought in many musical influences, especially introduction of the drum. The Spanish influence predominantes due to the colonization process and the socioeconomic structure it created. Spanish influences can be seen in the country's architecture, music, religion, and language. </p><p>Venezuela was also enriched by immigration streams of Indian and European origin in the 19th century, especially from France. Most recently, immigration from the United States, Spain, Italy, and Portugal has enriched the already complex cultural mosaic.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Ra%C3%BAl_Villanueva" title="Carlos Raúl Villanueva">Carlos Raúl Villanueva</a><sup id="cite_ref-382" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-382"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>378<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was the most important Venezuelan architect of the modern era; he designed the Central University of Venezuela, (a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>) and its Aula Magna. Other notable architectural works include the Capitolio, the <a href="/wiki/Baralt_Theatre" title="Baralt Theatre">Baralt Theatre</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Carre%C3%B1o_Cultural_Complex" title="Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex">Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/General_Rafael_Urdaneta_Bridge" title="General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge">General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge</a>. In Venezuela, <a href="/wiki/Prehistory" title="Prehistory">prehistoric</a> man began to build useful architecture from approximately 1000 BC to the 15th century AD, in the period known as the "Neo-Indian". Neo-Indian architecture consisted of incipient constructions, such as <a href="/wiki/Terrace_(earthworks)" title="Terrace (earthworks)">agricultural terraces</a> and vaults lined by stones, called mintoyes, which were used as tombs and silos for the storage of agricultural products. The Indo-Hispanic architecture is the one that begins to develop from the year 1498 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-383" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-383"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>379<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuelan colonial architecture is built from the 16th century, when Venezuela began to be a dependent colony of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-384" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-384"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>380<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> until 1810, when the process of Venezuelan independence began. </p><p>The architecture of this period is characterized by its discreet modesty, with the exception of some cities. The explanation lies in the socioeconomic conditions of the <a href="/wiki/Country" title="Country">country</a>. Venezuela did not offer then to the colonizers the immense riches kept by nature for later times. The simplification of technical problems, the renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated ostentations of fanciful baroque, the impossibility of using <a href="/wiki/Cost" title="Cost">expensive</a> materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen, contributed to establish a modest but well-defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture of Venezuela. During the <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonial</a> period, there were eventually confrontations between the Spanish conquerors and the barbarians and pirates that sailed along the Venezuelan coasts, in order to take over the provinces located on the coasts of the country. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a> temples from the colonial era were constituted by an almost invariable, arrangement consisting of a rectangular plan, three naves separated by arches of alfarje roofing composed of religious architecture in colonial times. The Venezuelan society dedicated a great amount of resources to erect religious monuments comparable to those of other countries of the continent. The XVII century was of reconstruction of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic churches</a> that had been destroyed by the earthquake of 1641. In the 18th century, specifically between 1728 and 1785, the prosperity that Venezuela enjoyed due to the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Guipuzcoan_Company_of_Caracas" title="Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas">Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas</a><sup id="cite_ref-385" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-385"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>381<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was also reflected in the construction of new architecture, especially of a religious nature. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 175px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro,_estado_Falcon,_Venezuela.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The historic center of Coro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,[382] is an example of Spanish colonial architecture in Venezuela."><img alt="The historic center of Coro, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,[382] is an example of Spanish colonial architecture in Venezuela." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg/200px-Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg/300px-Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg/400px-Casco_Central_Santa_Ana_de_Coro%2C_estado_Falcon%2C_Venezuela.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3504" data-file-height="2336" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The historic center of <a href="/wiki/Coro,_Venezuela" title="Coro, Venezuela">Coro</a>, a UNESCO <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Sites_by_country" title="World Heritage Sites by country">World Heritage Site</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-386" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-386"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>382<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is an example of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_architecture" title="Spanish Colonial architecture">Spanish colonial architecture</a> in Venezuela.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 175px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, built between 1686 and completed in 1858, where is kept the colonial image of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, in Maracaibo"><img alt="Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, built between 1686 and completed in 1858, where is kept the colonial image of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, in Maracaibo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg/200px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg/300px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg/400px-Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Chiquinquira.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4468" data-file-height="2947" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Chiquinquir%C3%A1,_Maracaibo" title="Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, Maracaibo">Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá</a>, built between 1686 and completed in 1858, where is kept the colonial image of the <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary_of_Chiquinquir%C3%A1" title="Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá">Virgin of Chiquinquirá</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Maracaibo" title="Maracaibo">Maracaibo</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 175px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Colonia Tovar, a German-style town built in the 1840s to 1850s by German immigrants[383] in Venezuela"><img alt="St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Colonia Tovar, a German-style town built in the 1840s to 1850s by German immigrants[383] in Venezuela" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg/200px-Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg/300px-Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg/400px-Iglesia_San_Martin_de_Tours_II.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4327" data-file-height="2912" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in <a href="/wiki/Colonia_Tovar" title="Colonia Tovar">Colonia Tovar</a>, a German-style town built in the 1840s to 1850s by German immigrants<sup id="cite_ref-387" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-387"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>383<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in Venezuela</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_art" title="Venezuelan art">Venezuelan art</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG/170px-Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG/255px-Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG/340px-Antonio_Herrera_Toro_Autoretrato_1880.JPG 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Herrera_Toro" title="Antonio Herrera Toro">Antonio Herrera Toro</a>, self portrait 1880</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_art" title="Venezuelan art">Venezuelan art</a> was initially dominated by religious motifs. However, in the late 19th century, artists began emphasizing historical and heroic representations of the country's struggle for independence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENg200431_388-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENg200431-388"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>384<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAponte200845_389-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAponte200845-389"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This move was led by <a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Tovar_y_Tovar" title="Martín Tovar y Tovar">Martín Tovar y Tovar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAponte200845_389-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAponte200845-389"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610_390-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610-390"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>386<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">Modernism</a> took over in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610_390-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610-390"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>386<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Notable <a href="/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_artists" title="List of Venezuelan artists">Venezuelan artists</a> include <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Michelena" title="Arturo Michelena">Arturo Michelena</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_Rojas_(artist)" title="Cristóbal Rojas (artist)">Cristóbal Rojas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armando_Rever%C3%B3n" title="Armando Reverón">Armando Reverón</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Cabr%C3%A9" title="Manuel Cabré">Manuel Cabré</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_art" title="Kinetic art">kinetic artists</a> <a href="/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs-Rafael_Soto" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesús-Rafael Soto">Jesús Soto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gego" title="Gego">Gego</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-Diez" title="Carlos Cruz-Diez">Carlos Cruz-Diez</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610_390-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETarverFrederick200610-390"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>386<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and contemporary artists such as <a href="/wiki/Marisol_Escobar" title="Marisol Escobar">Marisol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yucef_Merhi" title="Yucef Merhi">Yucef Merhi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFichner-Ratus2012519_391-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFichner-Ratus2012519-391"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>387<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-392" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-392"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>388<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_literature" title="Venezuelan literature">Venezuelan literature</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_literature" title="Venezuelan literature">Venezuelan literature</a> originated soon after the Spanish conquest of the mostly pre-literate Indigenous societies.<sup id="cite_ref-393" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-393"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>389<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was originally dominated by <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Spain" title="Culture of Spain">Spanish influences</a>. Following the rise of political literature during the Venezuelan War of Independence, Venezuelan <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</a>, notably expounded by Juan Vicente González, emerged as the first important genre in the region. Although mainly focused on narrative writing, Venezuelan literature was advanced by poets such as <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Eloy_Blanco" title="Andrés Eloy Blanco">Andrés Eloy Blanco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ferm%C3%ADn_Toro" title="Fermín Toro">Fermín Toro</a>. </p><p>Major writers and novelists include <a href="/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Gallegos" title="Rómulo Gallegos">Rómulo Gallegos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Teresa_de_la_Parra" title="Teresa de la Parra">Teresa de la Parra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Uslar_Pietri" title="Arturo Uslar Pietri">Arturo Uslar Pietri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adriano_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Le%C3%B3n" title="Adriano González León">Adriano González León</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Otero_Silva" title="Miguel Otero Silva">Miguel Otero Silva</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mariano_Pic%C3%B3n_Salas" title="Mariano Picón Salas">Mariano Picón Salas</a>. The great poet and humanist <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Bello" title="Andrés Bello">Andrés Bello</a> was also an educator and intellectual (He was also a childhood tutor and mentor of <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a>). Others, such as <a href="/wiki/Laureano_Vallenilla_Lanz" title="Laureano Vallenilla Lanz">Laureano Vallenilla Lanz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gil_Fortoul" title="José Gil Fortoul">José Gil Fortoul</a>, contributed to Venezuelan <a href="/wiki/Positivism" title="Positivism">Positivism</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Venezuela" title="Music of Venezuela">Music of Venezuela</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._(8200095256).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg/220px-2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg/330px-2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg/440px-2952-Danzas_Guanaguanare_de_Venezuela_no_Festival_folclorico_da_Coru%C3%B1a._%288200095256%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1824" data-file-height="1432" /></a><figcaption>The Guanaguanare dance, a popular dance in <a href="/wiki/Portuguesa_(state)" title="Portuguesa (state)">Portuguesa State</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Indigenous musical styles of Venezuela are exemplified by groups like Un Solo Pueblo and <a href="/wiki/Serenata_Guayanesa" title="Serenata Guayanesa">Serenata Guayanesa</a>. The national musical instrument is the <a href="/wiki/Cuatro_(Venezuela)" title="Cuatro (Venezuela)">cuatro</a>. Traditional musical styles and songs mainly emerged in and around the llanos region, including "Alma llanera" (by <a href="/wiki/Pedro_El%C3%ADas_Guti%C3%A9rrez" title="Pedro Elías Gutiérrez">Pedro Elías Gutiérrez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Bol%C3%ADvar_Coronado" title="Rafael Bolívar Coronado">Rafael Bolívar Coronado</a>), "Florentino y el diablo" (by <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Arvelo_Torrealba" title="Alberto Arvelo Torrealba">Alberto Arvelo Torrealba</a>), "Concierto en la llanura" by <a href="/wiki/Juan_Vicente_Torrealba" title="Juan Vicente Torrealba">Juan Vicente Torrealba</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Caballo_Viejo" title="Caballo Viejo">"Caballo viejo"</a> (by <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_D%C3%ADaz" title="Simón Díaz">Simón Díaz</a>). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Gaita_zuliana" title="Gaita zuliana">Zulian gaita</a> is also a very popular genre, generally performed during Christmas. The national dance is the <a href="/wiki/Joropo" title="Joropo">joropo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECortés20132134_394-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECortés20132134-394"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>390<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela has always been a melting pot of cultures and this can be seen in the richness and variety of its musical styles and dances: <a href="/wiki/Calypso_music" title="Calypso music">calipso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bambuco" title="Bambuco">bambuco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ful%C3%ADa" title="Fulía">fulía</a>, cantos de pilado de maíz, cantos de lavanderas, sebucán, and maremare.<sup id="cite_ref-395" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-395"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>391<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Carre%C3%B1o" title="Teresa Carreño">Teresa Carreño</a> was a world-famous 19th century piano virtuoso. Recently, great classical music performances have come out of Venezuela. The <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_Youth_Orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra">Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra</a> has hosted a number of excellent concerts in many European concert halls, most notably at the 2007 London <a href="/wiki/The_Proms" class="mw-redirect" title="The Proms">Proms</a>, and has received several honors. The orchestra is the pinnacle of <a href="/wiki/El_Sistema" title="El Sistema">El Sistema</a>, a publicly financed, voluntary music education program now being emulated in other countries. </p><p>In the early 21st century, a movement known as "Movida Acústica Urbana" featured musicians trying to save some national traditions, creating their own original songs but using traditional instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-396" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-396"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>392<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-397" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-397"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>393<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some groups following this movement are Tambor Urbano,<sup id="cite_ref-398" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-398"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>394<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Los Sinverguenzas, C4Trío, and Orozco Jam.<sup id="cite_ref-399" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-399"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>395<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Afro-Venezuelan musical traditions are most intimately related to the festivals of the "black folk saints" San Juan and <a href="/wiki/Benedict_the_Moor" title="Benedict the Moor">St. Benedict the Moor</a>. Specific songs are related to the different stages of their festivals and processions, when the saints start their yearly "<i>paseo"</i> – stroll – through the community. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport">Sport</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Venezuela" title="Sport in Venezuela">Sport in Venezuela</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Baseball_in_Venezuela" title="Baseball in Venezuela">Baseball in Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Football_in_Venezuela" title="Football in Venezuela">Football in Venezuela</a></div> <p>The origins of baseball in Venezuela are unclear, although it is known that the sport was being played in the country by the late 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENicholsMorse2010306_400-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENicholsMorse2010306-400"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>396<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the early 20th century, North American immigrants who came to Venezuela to work in the nation's oil industry helped to popularize the sport in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardrope200337_401-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardrope200337-401"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>397<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 1930s, baseball's popularity continued to rise in the country, leading to the foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Professional_Baseball_League" title="Venezuelan Professional Baseball League">Venezuelan Professional Baseball League</a> (LVBP) in 1945, and the sport would soon become the nation's most popular.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJozsa201312_402-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJozsa201312-402"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>398<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGibson200618_403-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGibson200618-403"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>399<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The popularity of baseball in the country makes Venezuela a rarity among its South American neighbors—association football is the dominant sport in the continent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWardrope200337_401-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWardrope200337-401"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>397<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGibson200618_403-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGibson200618-403"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>399<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENicholsMorse2010307_404-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENicholsMorse2010307-404"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>400<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, football, as well as <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>, are among the more popular sports played in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAalgaard200454_405-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAalgaard200454-405"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>401<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela hosted the <a href="/wiki/2012_FIBA_World_Olympic_Qualifying_Tournament_for_Men" title="2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men">2012 Basketball World Olympic Qualifying Tournament</a> and the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Americas_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA Americas Championship">2013 FIBA Basketball Americas Championship</a>, which took place in the <a href="/wiki/Poliedro_de_Caracas" title="Poliedro de Caracas">Poliedro de Caracas</a>. </p><p>Although not as popular in Venezuela as the rest of South America, football, spearheaded by the <a href="/wiki/Venezuela_national_football_team" title="Venezuela national football team">Venezuela national football team</a> is gaining popularity as well. The sport is also noted for having an increased focus during the World Cup.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAalgaard200454_405-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAalgaard200454-405"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>401<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Venezuela is scheduled to host the <a href="/wiki/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica" title="Copa América">Copa América</a> every 40 years.<sup id="cite_ref-406" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-406"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>402<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Venezuela is also home to former <a href="/wiki/Formula_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Formula 1">Formula 1</a> driver, <a href="/wiki/Pastor_Maldonado" title="Pastor Maldonado">Pastor Maldonado</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Strickland2015_407-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Strickland2015-407"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>403<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maldonado has increased the reception of Formula 1 in Venezuela, helping to popularize the sport in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-408" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-408"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>404<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" title="2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Limardo" title="Rubén Limardo">Rubén Limardo</a> won a gold medal in <a href="/wiki/Fencing_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics" title="Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics">fencing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-409" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-409"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>405<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Winter Sports, <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Baena" title="Cesar Baena">Cesar Baena</a> had represented the country since 2008 in Nordic Skiing, the first South American skier to compete in a FIS Cross Country Ski World Cup on Düsseldorf 2009. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 190px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_(5).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar is used by the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League and has a capacity of approximately 40,000 spectators."><img alt="Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar is used by the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League and has a capacity of approximately 40,000 spectators." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg/200px-Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg/300px-Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg/400px-Estadio_Monumental_de_Caracas_Simon_Bolivar_Feb_2023_Venezuela_%285%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Monumental_Stadium_of_Caracas_Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" class="mw-redirect" title="Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar">Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar</a> is used by the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Professional_Baseball_League" title="Venezuelan Professional Baseball League">Venezuelan Professional Baseball League</a> and has a capacity of approximately 40,000 spectators.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div 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title="Index of Venezuela-related articles">Index of Venezuela-related articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Venezuela" title="Outline of Venezuela">Outline of Venezuela</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_note-The_Path_Toward_Authoritarianism_in_Venezuela_2019_p.-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Corrales_2022_p._6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corrales_2022_p.-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-David_Rockefeller_Center_for_Latin_American_Studies_2022_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David_Rockefeller_Center_for_Latin_American_Studies_2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dictatorship-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dictatorship_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Venezuela has been described as a dictatorship by multiple sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Turkewitz-2024a_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turkewitz-2024a-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Corrales_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corrales-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters-maduro_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters-maduro-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hrw-maduro_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hrw-maduro-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wpo-maduro_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpo-maduro-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">English: <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="&#39;v&#39; in &#39;vie&#39;">v</span><span title="/ɛ/: &#39;e&#39; in &#39;dress&#39;">ɛ</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;z&#39; in &#39;zoom&#39;">z</span><span title="&#39;w&#39; in &#39;wind&#39;">w</span><span title="/eɪ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;face&#39;">eɪ</span><span title="&#39;l&#39; in &#39;lie&#39;">l</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">VEN</span>-ə-<span style="font-size:90%">ZWAY</span>-lə</i></a>, <span class="IPA-label">Latin American Spanish:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="es-419-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish" title="Help:IPA/Spanish">&#91;beneˈswela&#93;</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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Clarendon Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-01-923189-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-01-923189-3"><bdi>978-0-01-923189-3</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032020/https://books.google.com/books?id=unNsAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=Orinoco+basin">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Las+Microfacies+Del+Cretaceo+de+Venezuela+Occidental&amp;rft.pub=Brill+Archive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBM4UAAAAIAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-193"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-193">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSocorro2006" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Socorro, Orangel Antonio Aguilera (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kIBdAAAAMAAJ"><i>Tesoros paleontológicos de Venezuela: el cuaternario del Estado Falcón</i></a> (in Spanish). 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Santana y cia. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032524/https://books.google.com/books?id=abMvAQAAMAAJ&amp;q=valles+de+venezuela#v=snippet&amp;q=valles%20de%20venezuela&amp;f=false">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.wur.nl/isric/fulltext/isricu_i00006627_001.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 7 June 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Valles+de+Venezuela&amp;rft.aulast=Zinck&amp;rft.aufirst=Alfred&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.wur.nl%2Fisric%2Ffulltext%2Fisricu_i00006627_001.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-197">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFA1984" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">A, América Bracho (1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=N9o7AAAAYAAJ&amp;q=valles+de+venezuela"><i>Geografía de Venezuela: III año</i></a> (in Spanish). Ediciones CO-BO. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032406/https://books.google.com/books?id=N9o7AAAAYAAJ&amp;q=valles+de+venezuela">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Geograf%C3%ADa+de+Venezuela%3A+III+a%C3%B1o&amp;rft.pub=Ediciones+CO-BO&amp;rft.date=1984&amp;rft.aulast=A&amp;rft.aufirst=Am%C3%A9rica+Bracho&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DN9o7AAAAYAAJ%26q%3Dvalles%2Bde%2Bvenezuela&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-198">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wBe4AAAAIAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+has+a+great+diversity+of+landscapes+and+climates"><i>The Latin America &amp; Caribbean Review</i></a>. World of Information. 1986. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780904439557" title="Special:BookSources/9780904439557"><bdi>9780904439557</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032522/https://books.google.com/books?id=wBe4AAAAIAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+has+a+great+diversity+of+landscapes+and+climates">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Latin+America+%26+Caribbean+Review&amp;rft.pub=World+of+Information&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.isbn=9780904439557&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwBe4AAAAIAAJ%26q%3DVenezuela%2Bhas%2Ba%2Bgreat%2Bdiversity%2Bof%2Blandscapes%2Band%2Bclimates&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-199"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-199">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaño1986" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Baño, Adrián Hernández (1986). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BolrAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+medanos+de+coro"><i>Secretos de los Médanos de Coro</i></a> (in Spanish). Instituto de Cultura del Estado Falcón. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-980-6081-09-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-980-6081-09-3"><bdi>978-980-6081-09-3</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032406/https://books.google.com/books?id=BolrAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+medanos+de+coro">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Secretos+de+los+M%C3%A9danos+de+Coro&amp;rft.pub=Instituto+de+Cultura+del+Estado+Falc%C3%B3n&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.isbn=978-980-6081-09-3&amp;rft.aulast=Ba%C3%B1o&amp;rft.aufirst=Adri%C3%A1n+Hern%C3%A1ndez&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBolrAAAAMAAJ%26q%3DVenezuela%2Bmedanos%2Bde%2Bcoro&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSalazar-Quijada1971" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Salazar-Quijada, Adolfo (1971). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FuIKAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+guajira+venezolana"><i>Toponimia de la Guajira venezolana</i></a> (in Spanish). Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032407/https://books.google.com/books?id=FuIKAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=Venezuela+guajira+venezolana">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Toponimia+de+la+Guajira+venezolana&amp;rft.pub=Universidad+Cat%C3%B3lica+Andr%C3%A9s+Bello%2C+Instituto+de+Investigaciones+Hist%C3%B3ricas%2C+Seminario+de+Lenguas+Ind%C3%ADgenas&amp;rft.date=1971&amp;rft.aulast=Salazar-Quijada&amp;rft.aufirst=Adolfo&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFuIKAQAAIAAJ%26q%3DVenezuela%2Bguajira%2Bvenezolana&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-201"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-201">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFColombo-Venezolanos1993" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Colombo-Venezolanos, Venezuela Comisión Presidencial para Asuntos Fronterizos (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MVOzAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=M%C3%A9danos+de+Capanaparo"><i>Apure: diagnostico y estrategias de desarrollo fronterizo</i></a> (in Spanish). La Comisión. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-980-03-0130-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-980-03-0130-2"><bdi>978-980-03-0130-2</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032523/https://books.google.com/books?id=MVOzAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=M%C3%A9danos+de+Capanaparo">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Apure%3A+diagnostico+y+estrategias+de+desarrollo+fronterizo&amp;rft.pub=La+Comisi%C3%B3n&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.isbn=978-980-03-0130-2&amp;rft.aulast=Colombo-Venezolanos&amp;rft.aufirst=Venezuela+Comisi%C3%B3n+Presidencial+para+Asuntos+Fronterizos&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMVOzAAAAIAAJ%26q%3DM%25C3%25A9danos%2Bde%2BCapanaparo&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-202">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHidrocarburos1962" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Hidrocarburos, Venezuela Ministerio de Minas e (1962). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4IalPfsEpFsC&amp;q=M%C3%A9danos+de+zapara"><i>Memoria - Ministerio de Minas e Hidrocarburos</i></a> (in Spanish). El Ministerio. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032905/https://books.google.com/books?id=4IalPfsEpFsC&amp;q=M%C3%A9danos+de+zapara">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Memoria+-+Ministerio+de+Minas+e+Hidrocarburos&amp;rft.pub=El+Ministerio.&amp;rft.date=1962&amp;rft.aulast=Hidrocarburos&amp;rft.aufirst=Venezuela+Ministerio+de+Minas+e&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4IalPfsEpFsC%26q%3DM%25C3%25A9danos%2Bde%2Bzapara&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-203">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLéidenz2001" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Léidenz, Misael Salazar (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=spASAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=Hundici%C3%B3n+de+Yay"><i>Venezuela en la magia, el mito y la leyenda</i></a> (in Spanish). Editorial Guaraira Repano. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-980-07-8548-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-980-07-8548-5"><bdi>978-980-07-8548-5</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231129032915/https://books.google.com/books?id=spASAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=Hundici%C3%B3n+de+Yay">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Venezuela+en+la+magia%2C+el+mito+y+la+leyenda&amp;rft.pub=Editorial+Guaraira+Repano&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-980-07-8548-5&amp;rft.aulast=L%C3%A9idenz&amp;rft.aufirst=Misael+Salazar&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DspASAQAAIAAJ%26q%3DHundici%25C3%25B3n%2Bde%2BYay&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-204"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-204">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100929053531/http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/ley_organica_procesos_electorales/titulo2.php">"Ley Orgánica de Procesos Electorales"</a> (in Spanish). Consejo Nacional Electoral. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/ley_organica_procesos_electorales/titulo2.php">the original</a> on 29 September 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 April</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Ley+Org%C3%A1nica+de+Procesos+Electorales&amp;rft.pub=Consejo+Nacional+Electoral&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cne.gov.ve%2Fweb%2Fnormativa_electoral%2Fley_organica_procesos_electorales%2Ftitulo2.php&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-205"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-205">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110510075036/http://www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-nacionales/37227">"Dos mil 719 candidatos se disputarán los curules de la Asamblea Nacional"</a> (in Spanish). Venezolana de Televisión. 10 June 2010. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-nacionales/37227">the original</a> on 10 May 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081010234313/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/apathy/story/0,,1521096,00.html">Archived</a> from the original on 10 October 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 March</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=Compulsory+voting+around+the+world&amp;rft.date=2005-07-04&amp;rft.aulast=Frankal&amp;rft.aufirst=Elliot&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.guardian.co.uk%2Fapathy%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C1521096%2C00.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-207"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-207">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100325094828/http://www.elinformador.com.ve/noticias/venezuela/poder-judicial/luisa-estela-morales-afirma-division-poderes-debilita-estado/8397">"Luisa Estela Morales afirma que la división de poderes debilita al Estado"</a> (in Spanish). El Informador. 5 December 2009. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.elinformador.com.ve/noticias/venezuela/poder-judicial/luisa-estela-morales-afirma-division-poderes-debilita-estado/8397">the original</a> on 25 March 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ntn24web.com/video/paso-a-vzla-chavismo-designo-nuevos-magistrados-83200">the original</a> on 16 June 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 October</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Poblaciones+Ind%C3%ADgenas+en+aumento+seg%C3%BAn+censo+poblacional+2011&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.au=Ben%C3%ADtez%2C+Deivis&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minpi.gob.ve%2Fminpi%2Fes%2Fnoticias%2F1548-np1428&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Los resultados arrojados por el censo poblacional realizado por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas en el 2011 demuestra que las poblaciones indígenas ha aumentado progresivamente con respecto al censo del año 2001.<br /> <br /> Según los datos estadísticos publicados por el INE, el total de población que se declaró indígena por sexo, arrojó un resultado de 50,46% hombre y 49,54% mujeres representando 365.920 hombres y 359.208 mujeres para un total de 725.148 personas que se declararon indígenas de Venezuela.<br /> <br /> Así mismo, se tomó el porcentaje de población por entidad donde el estado Zulia es la entidad con más indígenas con un 61%, seguido del estado Amazonas con 10%, Bolívar con un 8%, Delta Amacuro con 6%, Anzoátegui 5%, Sucre 3%, Apure y Monagas 2% mientras que en otras entidades existe un 3% de población indígena.<br /> <br /> Entre tanto, los pueblos indígenas con mayor población se encuentran los Wayuu 58%, Warao 7%, Kariña 5%, Pemón 4%, Piaroa, Jivi, Añu, Cumanágoto 3%, Yukpa, Chaima 2%, el pueblo Yanomami 1% y otros pueblos con un 9%. </p> </div></blockquote></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-332"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-332">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGodinho2008" class="citation web cs1">Godinho, Neide Maria de Oliveira (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162307/http://bdtd.bce.unb.br/tedesimplificado/tde_arquivos/36/TDE-2008-08-21T100337Z-3085/Publico/2008_NeideMOGodinho.pdf">"O impacto das migrações na constituição genética de populações latino-americanas"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 April</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Informe+Sociogr%C3%A1fico+sobre+la+religi%C3%B3n+en+Venezuela&amp;rft.date=2012-06&amp;rft.aulast=Aguire&amp;rft.aufirst=Jesus+Maria&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gumilla.org%2Fbiblioteca%2Fbases%2Fbiblo%2Ftexto%2FSIC2012745_211-222.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7-352"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7_352-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Khalifa_2013_loc=6-7_352-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKhalifa2013">Khalifa 2013</a>, 6-7<span class="error harv-error" style="display: none; font-size:100%"> harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKhalifa2013 (<a href="/wiki/Category:Harv_and_Sfn_template_errors" title="Category:Harv and Sfn template errors">help</a>)</span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-353"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-353">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/more-venezuelans-immigrate-lebanon-crisis-escalates-n783106">"As crisis deepens, more Venezuelans are emigrating to Lebanon"</a>. <i>NBC News</i>. 18 July 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=NBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=As+crisis+deepens%2C+more+Venezuelans+are+emigrating+to+Lebanon&amp;rft.date=2017-07-18&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Flatino%2Fmore-venezuelans-immigrate-lebanon-crisis-escalates-n783106&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-354"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_354-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_354-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.juf.org/news/jerusalem.aspx?id=451177">"Sending relief--and a message of inclusion and love—to our Druze sisters and brothers"</a>. <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. 6 April 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Sending+relief--and+a+message+of+inclusion+and+love%E2%80%94to+our+Druze+sisters+and+brothers&amp;rft.date=2021-04-06&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.juf.org%2Fnews%2Fjerusalem.aspx%3Fid%3D451177&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-355"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-355">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.al-amama.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1110">"Tariq Alaiseme &#91;reportedly to be&#93; vice-president of Venezuela"</a> (in Arabic). Aamama. 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Tariq+Alaiseme+%5Breportedly+to+be%5D+vice-president+of+Venezuela&amp;rft.pub=Aamama&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-amama.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D1110&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span>: Referring governor <a href="/wiki/Tareck_El_Aissami" title="Tareck El Aissami">Tareck El Aissami</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hurricane-356"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hurricane_356-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThor_Halvorssen_Mendoza2005" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thor_Halvorssen_Mendoza" class="mw-redirect" title="Thor Halvorssen Mendoza">Thor Halvorssen Mendoza</a> (8 August 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110520091903/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/903jhsjt.asp?pg=1">"Hurricane Hugo"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a></i>. <b>10</b> (44). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/903jhsjt.asp?pg=1">the original</a> on 20 May 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Accessed 11 August 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-358"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-358">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Berrios, Jerry. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=11060">S. Fla. Venezuelans: Chavez incites anti-Semitism.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080306053937/http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=11060">Archived</a> 6 March 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Miami Herald</i>, 10 August 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-359"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-359">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm">The Chavez Regime: Fostering Anti-Semitism and Supporting Radical Islam.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110604042755/http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm">Archived</a> 4 June 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a>, 6 November 2006. Accessed 3 April 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TOERaid-360"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-TOERaid_360-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRueda2007" class="citation news cs1">Rueda, Jorge (4 December 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150408072903/http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/20071204-1410-venezuela-raid.html">"Jewish leaders condemn police raid on community center in Venezuela"</a>. <a href="/wiki/U-T_San_Diego" class="mw-redirect" title="U-T San Diego">U-T San Diego</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/20071204-1410-venezuela-raid.html">the original</a> on 8 April 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Spartan Newsroon. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://spartannewsroom.com/changeup/article/blog/formula-1-needs-more-attention-united-states">the original</a> on 6 July 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 July</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Formula+1+needs+more+attention+in+the+United+States&amp;rft.pub=Spartan+Newsroon&amp;rft.aulast=Montiel&amp;rft.aufirst=Santiago&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspartannewsroom.com%2Fchangeup%2Farticle%2Fblog%2Fformula-1-needs-more-attention-united-states&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-409"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-409">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120807221821/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/fencing/fencer-ruben-limardo-returns-to-heros-welcome-in-venezuela.html">"Fencer Ruben Limardo returns to hero's welcome in Venezuela"</a>. 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The Myth of a United Venezuela"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Bulletin_of_Latin_American_Research" title="Bulletin of Latin American Research">Bulletin of Latin American Research</a></i>. <b>23</b> (3): 285–302. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.0261-3050.2004.00109.x">10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00109.x</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:56445250">56445250</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Bulletin+of+Latin+American+Research&amp;rft.atitle=Venezuela%2C+April+2002%3A+Coup+or+Popular+Rebellion%3F+The+Myth+of+a+United+Venezuela&amp;rft.volume=23&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.pages=285-302&amp;rft.date=2004-06-21&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.0261-3050.2004.00109.x&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A56445250%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft.aulast=Cannon&amp;rft.aufirst=Barry&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.0261-3050.2004.00109.x&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAalgaard2004" class="citation book cs1">Aalgaard, Wendy (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jSlsKvev-QkC"><i>Venezuela in Pictures</i></a>. Lerner Pub Group. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8225-1172-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8225-1172-4"><bdi>978-0-8225-1172-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Venezuela+in+Pictures&amp;rft.pub=Lerner+Pub+Group&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8225-1172-4&amp;rft.aulast=Aalgaard&amp;rft.aufirst=Wendy&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DjSlsKvev-QkC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAponte2008" class="citation book cs1">Aponte, Pedro Rafael (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170106184644/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk8N_C1Gk48C"><i>The Invention of the National in Venezuelan Art Music, 1920–1960</i></a>. University of Pittsburgh. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-109-05320-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-109-05320-3"><bdi>978-1-109-05320-3</bdi></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk8N_C1Gk48C">the original</a> on 6 January 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 July</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Invention+of+the+National+in+Venezuelan+Art+Music%2C+1920%E2%80%931960&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Pittsburgh&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-109-05320-3&amp;rft.aulast=Aponte&amp;rft.aufirst=Pedro+Rafael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGk8N_C1Gk48C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Carroll, Rory. <i>Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela</i> (Penguin Books, 2014).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChasteen2001" class="citation book cs1">Chasteen, John Charles (2001). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/borninbloodfirec00chas"><i>Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America</i></a></span>. Norton. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-05048-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-05048-6"><bdi>978-0-393-05048-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Born+in+Blood+and+Fire%3A+A+Concise+History+of+Latin+America&amp;rft.pub=Norton&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-393-05048-6&amp;rft.aulast=Chasteen&amp;rft.aufirst=John+Charles&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fborninbloodfirec00chas&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChávez2004" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Chávez, Hugo</a> (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110511182837/http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/misc-view/sharedfiles/Metas_Milenio.pdf"><i>Cumpliendo las metas del milenio</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (in Spanish). 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(2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq-5QRDNVDEC"><i>Venezuela</i></a>. ABC-CLIO. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-569-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-569-3"><bdi>978-1-59884-569-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Venezuela&amp;rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-59884-569-3&amp;rft.aulast=Nichols&amp;rft.aufirst=Elizabeth+Gackstetter&amp;rft.au=Morse%2C+Kimberley+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCq-5QRDNVDEC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSalas2004" class="citation book cs1">Salas, Miguel Tinker (2 August 2004). "Culture, Power, and Oil: The Experience of Venezuelan Oil Camps and the Construction of Citizenship". In Gilbert G. Gonzalez; Raul A. Fernandez; Vivian Price; David Smith; Linda Trinh Võ (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6-1QnKS6xG4C"><i>Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, Migration</i></a>. Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-135-93528-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-135-93528-3"><bdi>978-1-135-93528-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Culture%2C+Power%2C+and+Oil%3A+The+Experience+of+Venezuelan+Oil+Camps+and+the+Construction+of+Citizenship&amp;rft.btitle=Labor+Versus+Empire%3A+Race%2C+Gender%2C+Migration&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2004-08-02&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-135-93528-3&amp;rft.aulast=Salas&amp;rft.aufirst=Miguel+Tinker&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6-1QnKS6xG4C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSalas2015" class="citation book cs1">Salas, Miguel Tinker (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FTFmBgAAQBAJ"><i>Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG</i></a>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-978328-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-978328-1"><bdi>978-0-19-978328-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Venezuela%3A+What+Everyone+Needs+to+KnowRG&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-19-978328-1&amp;rft.aulast=Salas&amp;rft.aufirst=Miguel+Tinker&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFTFmBgAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Schincariol, Vitor Eduardo. <i>Society and Economy in Venezuela: An Overview of the Bolivarian Period (1998-2018).</i> (2020).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStoan1974" class="citation book cs1">Stoan, Stephen K. (1974). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pablomorilloand00stoagoog"><i>Pablo Morillo and Venezuela, 1815–1820</i></a>. Ohio State University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8142-0219-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8142-0219-7"><bdi>978-0-8142-0219-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Pablo+Morillo+and+Venezuela%2C+1815%E2%80%931820&amp;rft.pub=Ohio+State+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1974&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8142-0219-7&amp;rft.aulast=Stoan&amp;rft.aufirst=Stephen+K.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpablomorilloand00stoagoog&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Straka, Tomás, Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal, and Alejandro E. Cáceres. <i>Historical Dictionary of Venezuela</i> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2017).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTarverFrederick2006" class="citation book cs1">Tarver, H. Michael; Frederick, Julia C. (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofvenezue0000tarv"><i>The History of Venezuela</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan">Palgrave Macmillan</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4039-6260-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4039-6260-7"><bdi>978-1-4039-6260-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 July</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+History+of+Venezuela&amp;rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4039-6260-7&amp;rft.aulast=Tarver&amp;rft.aufirst=H.+Michael&amp;rft.au=Frederick%2C+Julia+C.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryofvenezue0000tarv&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomas2005" class="citation book cs1">Thomas, Hugh (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/riversofgoldrise00thom"><i>Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan</i></a>. Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-375-50204-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-375-50204-0"><bdi>978-0-375-50204-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Rivers+of+Gold%3A+The+Rise+of+the+Spanish+Empire%2C+from+Columbus+to+Magellan&amp;rft.pub=Random+House&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-375-50204-0&amp;rft.aulast=Thomas&amp;rft.aufirst=Hugh&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Friversofgoldrise00thom&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWardrope2003" class="citation book cs1">Wardrope, William (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zlckFMNHGTUC"><i>Venezuela</i></a>. Gareth Stevens Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8368-2369-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8368-2369-1"><bdi>978-0-8368-2369-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Venezuela&amp;rft.pub=Gareth+Stevens+Publishing&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8368-2369-1&amp;rft.aulast=Wardrope&amp;rft.aufirst=William&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzlckFMNHGTUC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Wilpert, Gregory. <i>Changing Venezuela by taking power: the history and policies of the Chavez government</i> (2007) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/changingvenezuel00wilp">online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarhol2006" class="citation book cs1">Warhol, Tom (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oYUc7o43cuAC"><i>Tundra</i></a>. Marshall Cavendish. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7614-2193-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7614-2193-1"><bdi>978-0-7614-2193-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Tundra&amp;rft.pub=Marshall+Cavendish&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7614-2193-1&amp;rft.aulast=Warhol&amp;rft.aufirst=Tom&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DoYUc7o43cuAC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWunder2003" class="citation book cs1">Wunder, Sven (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n2nQ0A8BmCYC"><i>Oil wealth and the fate of the forest: a comparative study of eight tropical countries</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-203-98667-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-203-98667-7"><bdi>978-0-203-98667-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Oil+wealth+and+the+fate+of+the+forest%3A+a+comparative+study+of+eight+tropical+countries&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-203-98667-7&amp;rft.aulast=Wunder&amp;rft.aufirst=Sven&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dn2nQ0A8BmCYC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYergin1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Yergin" title="Daniel Yergin">Yergin, Daniel</a> (1991). <a href="/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_Oil,_Money,_and_Power" title="The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power"><i>The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power</i></a>. Simon and Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-1012-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4391-1012-6"><bdi>978-1-4391-1012-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Prize%3A+The+Epic+Quest+for+Oil%2C+Money%2C+and+Power&amp;rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4391-1012-6&amp;rft.aulast=Yergin&amp;rft.aufirst=Daniel&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZakaria1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria" title="Fareed Zakaria">Zakaria, Fareed</a> (1999). <i>From Wealth to Power</i>. Princeton University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-01035-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-01035-9"><bdi>978-0-691-01035-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=From+Wealth+to+Power&amp;rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1999&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-691-01035-9&amp;rft.aulast=Zakaria&amp;rft.aufirst=Fareed&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZamora1993" class="citation book cs1">Zamora, Margarita (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110511090548/http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft009nb0cv&amp;doc.view=content&amp;chunk.id=d0e2655&amp;toc.depth=1&amp;anchor.id=0&amp;brand=eschol"><i>Reading Columbus</i></a>. University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-08297-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-08297-7"><bdi>978-0-520-08297-7</bdi></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft009nb0cv&amp;doc.view=content&amp;chunk.id=d0e2655&amp;toc.depth=1&amp;anchor.id=0&amp;brand=eschol">the original</a> on 11 May 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Reading+Columbus&amp;rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-520-08297-7&amp;rft.aulast=Zamora&amp;rft.aufirst=Margarita&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpublishing.cdlib.org%2Fucpressebooks%2Fview%3FdocId%3Dft009nb0cv%26doc.view%3Dcontent%26chunk.id%3Dd0e2655%26toc.depth%3D1%26anchor.id%3D0%26brand%3Deschol&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Talks_and_interviews">Talks and interviews</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLander,_Edgardo2014" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Edgardo_Lander" title="Edgardo Lander">Lander, Edgardo</a> (April 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171010114526/http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=832&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=1168">"<i>The Modern History of Venezuela (9 parts)</i>"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=832&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=1168">the original</a> on 10 October 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 May</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+Modern+History+of+Venezuela+%289+parts%29&amp;rft.date=2014-04&amp;rft.au=Lander%2C+Edgardo&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftherealnews.com%2Ft2%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D832%26Itemid%3D74%26jumival%3D1168&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVenezuela" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 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title="Venezuela during World War II">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Trienio_Adeco" title="El Trienio Adeco">El Trienio Adeco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1958 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état">1958 coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puntofijo_Pact" title="Puntofijo Pact">Puntofijo Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Carupanazo" title="El Carupanazo">El Carupanazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Porte%C3%B1azo" title="El Porteñazo">El Porteñazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracazo" title="Caracazo">Caracazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempts" class="mw-redirect" title="1992 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempts">1992 coup d'état attempts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vargas_tragedy" title="Vargas tragedy">Vargas tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Venezuelan coup d&#39;état attempt">2002 coup d'état attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_general_strike_of_2002%E2%80%932003" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003">2002–03 general strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_constitutional_crisis" title="2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis">2017 constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">2019 presidential crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_civil_wars" title="Venezuelan civil wars">Civil wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Venezuelan coups d&#39;état">Coups d'état</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Venezuela" title="Geography of Venezuela">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borders_of_Venezuela" title="Borders of Venezuela">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Venezuela" title="List of cities and towns in Venezuela">Cities</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Venezuela" title="List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela">metropolitan areas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Venezuela" title="Climate of Venezuela">Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Venezuela" title="List of earthquakes in Venezuela">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Venezuela" title="Environmental issues in Venezuela">Environmental issues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_Venezuela" title="Fauna of Venezuela">Fauna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_of_Venezuela" title="Flora of Venezuela">Flora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Venezuela" title="List of national parks of Venezuela">National parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_regions_of_Venezuela" title="Natural regions of Venezuela">Natural Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:World_Heritage_Sites_in_Venezuela" title="Category:World Heritage Sites in Venezuela">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela" title="Politics of Venezuela">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela" title="Corruption in Venezuela">Corruption in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torture_in_Venezuela" title="Torture in Venezuela">Torture in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Venezuela" title="Human rights in Venezuela">Human rights in Venezuela</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Venezuela">LGBT</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">Crisis in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Venezuela" title="Administrative divisions of Venezuela">Administrative divisions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Venezuela" title="Regions of Venezuela">Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/States_of_Venezuela" title="States of Venezuela">States</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela" title="Constitution of Venezuela">Constitution</a></li> <li><a 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Venezuela">List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_Venezuela" title="Vice President of Venezuela">Vice President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Venezuela" title="Cabinet of Venezuela">Cabinet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Venezuela)" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)">Supreme Tribunal of Justice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_of_Venezuela_in_exile" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela in exile">In exile</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_territorial_dispute" title="Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute">Guayana Esequiba (Reclamation area)</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Parties" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Venezuela" title="List of political parties in Venezuela">Parties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_Pole" title="Great Patriotic Pole">Great Patriotic Pole</a></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="United Socialist Party of Venezuela">United Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_We_Are_Venezuela" title="Movement We Are Venezuela">Movement We Are Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="Communist Party of Venezuela">Communist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/For_Social_Democracy" title="For Social Democracy">For Social Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tupamaro_(Venezuela)" title="Tupamaro (Venezuela)">Tupamaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Electoral_Movement_(Venezuela)" title="People&#39;s Electoral Movement (Venezuela)">People's Electoral Movement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable" title="Democratic Unity Roundtable">Democratic Unity Roundtable</a></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Justice_First" title="Justice First">Justice First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Will" title="Popular Will">Popular Will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_New_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Era">A New Era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Action_(Venezuela)" title="Democratic Action (Venezuela)">Democratic Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Come_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Come Venezuela">Come Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/Agreement_for_Change" title="Agreement for Change">Agreement for Change</a></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Advance" title="Progressive Advance">Progressive Advance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_for_Socialism_(Venezuela)" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement for Socialism (Venezuela)">Movement for Socialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copei" title="Copei">COPEI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecological_Movement_of_Venezuela" title="Ecological Movement of Venezuela">Ecological Movement of Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela" title="Economy of Venezuela">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Venezuela" title="Agriculture in Venezuela">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_bol%C3%ADvar" title="Venezuelan bolívar">Currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Venezuela" title="List of companies of Venezuela">Companies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/PDVSA" title="PDVSA">PDVSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporaci%C3%B3n_Venezolana_de_Guayana" title="Corporación Venezolana de Guayana">CVG</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_cooperatives" title="List of Venezuelan cooperatives">Cooperatives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Venezuela" title="Energy policy of Venezuela">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry" title="History of the Venezuelan oil industry">Oil industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Venezuela" title="Science and technology in Venezuela">Science and technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caracas_Stock_Exchange" title="Caracas Stock Exchange">Stock Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Venezuela" title="Telecommunications in Venezuela">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Venezuela" title="Tourism in Venezuela">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Venezuela" title="Transport in Venezuela">Transport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Venezuela" title="Category:Society of Venezuela">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela" title="Crime in Venezuela">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Venezuela" title="Demographics of Venezuela">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_diaspora" title="Venezuelan diaspora">Diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Venezuela" title="Education in Venezuela">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_care_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care in Venezuela">Healthcare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Venezuela" title="Immigration to Venezuela">Immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Venezuela" title="Indigenous peoples in Venezuela">Indigenous peoples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Venezuela" title="Languages of 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cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_literature" title="Venezuelan literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_media_in_Venezuela" title="Mass media in Venezuela">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Venezuela" title="Miss Venezuela">Miss Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Venezuela" title="Music of Venezuela">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Venezuela" title="Religion in Venezuela">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Venezuela" title="Sport in Venezuela">Sport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_symbols_of_Venezuela" title="National symbols of Venezuela">Symbols</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_al_Bravo_Pueblo" title="Gloria al Bravo Pueblo">anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Venezuela" title="Coat of arms of Venezuela">coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Venezuela" title="Flag of Venezuela">flag</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td 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href="/w/index.php?title=6th_G-15_summit&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="6th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_G-15_summit&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="7th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=8th_G-15_summit&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="8th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_G-15_summit" title="9th G-15 summit">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=10th_G-15_summit&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="10th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_G-15_summit&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="11th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_G-15_summit" title="12th G-15 summit">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13th_G-15_summit" title="13th G-15 summit">2006</a></li> <li><a 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