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  2. Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    Within the framework of the crisis in Venezuela, an intervention was raised in 2017 to Donald Trump's advisors, including US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson and the national security advisor, H. R. McMaster (who left the Trump administration from that moment on) and later to several presidents of Latin American countries, among those, Juan Manuel Santos. [1]

  3. United States–Venezuela relations - Wikipedia

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    During the Spanish American wars of independence, the United States was officially neutral but permitted Spanish American agents to obtain weapons and supplies.With the reception of Manuel Torres in 1821, the Gran Colombia (present-day Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru, Venezuela, western Guyana and northwest Brazil) became the first former Spanish colony recognized by the United States ...

  4. United States of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    The United States of Venezuela (Spanish: Estados Unidos de Venezuela) was the official name of Venezuela, adopted in its 1864 constitution under the Juan Crisóstomo Falcón government. This remained the official name until 1953, when the constitution of that year renamed it the Republic of Venezuela. In 1999 under newly elected president Hugo ...

  5. States of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states (Spanish: estados), a Capital District (Spanish: Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies (Spanish: Dependencias Federales), which consist of many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. [1] Venezuela claims the disputed Essequibo territory as one of its ...

  6. Federal Dependencies of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    2,155. Time zone. UTC-4:00. The Federal Dependencies of Venezuela (Spanish: Dependencias Federales de Venezuela) encompass most of Venezuela 's offshore islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela, excluding those islands that form the State of Nueva Esparta and some Caribbean coastal islands that are integrated with nearby states.

  7. Amazonas (Venezuelan state) - Wikipedia

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    The state capital is Puerto Ayacucho. The capital until the early 1900s was San Fernando de Atabapo. Although named after the Amazon River, most of the state is drained by the Orinoco River. Amazonas State covers 176,899 km 2 and, in 2007, had a population of 142,200. Its density is 0.8 inhabitants per km 2.

  8. History of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Venezuela in 1656, by Sanson Nicolas. One of the first maps about Venezuela and near regions. 5 July 1811 (fragment), painting by Juan Lovera in 1811.. The history of Venezuela reflects events in areas of the Americas colonized by Spain starting 1502; amid resistance from indigenous peoples, led by Native caciques, such as Guaicaipuro and Tamanaco.

  9. Yaracuy - Wikipedia

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    Yaracuy (Spanish: Estado Yaracuy, [2] IPA: [esˈtaðo ʝaɾaˈkuj];) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. [3] [4] Yaracuy is located in the Central-Western Region, Venezuela.It is bordered by Falcón in the north, in the west by Lara, in the south by Portuguesa and Cojedes and in the east by Cojedes and Carabobo.