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 The EU's relations with Venezuela - Overview
There is universal and direct suffrage, and elections are organised at municipal, regional and national levels by a national electoral council, and the country has a multiparty structure.
Venezuela’s 2003 GDP of $85.4 billion made it the biggest economy in the Andean Community, and the fourth biggest in Latin America, although income distribution remains very uneven.
Venezuela’s foreign trade policy mainly revolves around a desire to diversify exports and gain access to new markets in order to ensure that economic benefits are shared out in a more balanced fashion in society.
europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/venezuela/intro   (1678 words)

  
 Venezuela
Venezuela would like to expand the application of human rights in order to ensure that all citizens, without regard to social position, ethnicity, nationality, or creed, can feel protected and confident that their dignity will be respect.
Venezuela holds the view that the Inter-American Charter should enter into force as soon as possible, and that this instrument must be compatible with the OAS Charter, thereby developing and enhancing, in light of the new situations existing in the Hemisphere, Resolution 1080 and the Washington Protocol.
Venezuela is calling on all sectors, without exception, to contribute to the strengthening of the joint commitment in the Hemisphere.
www.oas.org /charter/docs/venezuela.htm   (10688 words)

  
 - : Venezuela Country Commercial Guide FY 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Venezuela and the United States have long had a close and cordial relationship due both to the trade in oil — it is Venezuela’s key export product and Venezuela is one of the leading suppliers to the U.S. — and to Venezuela's strong democratic traditions.
Venezuela’s basic telephony rate is around 11 percent while cellular phone penetration is 25 percent (this number is expected to reach 40 percent by the year 2005.) Much of the growth of cellular telephone use can be attributed to the phenomenal success of prepaid calling cards.
Venezuela has been slowly publishing its policies for the administration of these TRQs, and beginning in November 1999 the government of Venezuela announced a list of prerequisites that must be completed prior to receipt of import licenses for certain commodities, which included milk and milk products, cheese, oilseeds and oilseed products and sugar.
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 Venezuela
Venezuela is a constitutional democracy with a president and unicameral legislature in which citizens periodically choose their representatives in free and fair multiparty elections.
Municipal mayors and state governors are responsible for local and state police forces, and maintain independence from the central Government.
Venezuela was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18348.htm   (13852 words)

  
 Venezuela
Venezuela is a minor source country for opium poppy and coca, but a major transit country for cocaine and heroin.
However, Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold from other areas of their empire in the Americas.
Venezuela has international double taxation agreements in the areas of air and sea transport with several countries, including the U.S. Venezuela is currently negotiating a double taxation agreement with the U.S. which covers most business sectors.
www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/sam/venz.html   (15814 words)

  
 Venezuela
Venezuela is home one of the world's largest rivers, the Orinoco, and a large area of unsettled rainforest.
However, Venezuela is also home to extensive oil deposits (the largest proven deposits outside of the Middle East), the pursuit of which have often been environmentally damaging.
Logging concessions in Venezuela's rainforests are escalating in part due to the government's effort to diversify its economy to escape the doldrums of the world oil glut.
www.mongabay.com /20venezuela.htm   (736 words)

  
 Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Venezuela's Constitutional Assembly on Friday approved a name change for the country, which in the future will be called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Coro, which is the oldest city in the mainland of Venezuela, is directly on the shoreline.
National Flag of Venezuela, 1930 - Established on July 15th by disposition of the National Congress (as it must be), it incorporates the constellation of stars in arc of circle with the convexity upwards, perhaps, as remembrance of the crest that until that year enriched some reproductions of the Coat of Arms of the Republic.
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 ZNet | Activism | Participatory Democracy in Venezuela
The problematic ratio between population and municipalities and population and districts is also valid in terms of the distribution of resources.
Andrés Eloy Angola who lives in the district of Sucre, in the municipality of Libertador, articulates this problem at a district level.  Sucre, with a population of around 1.2 million inhabitants, is the largest district in all of Latin America.
This historical moment in which Venezuela is living is threatening to the neoliberal economic integration and uni-polar world envisioned by the United States for two principal reasons.  First, Venezuela has the capacity to spread this revolution to other Latin American nations[4].
www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6814&sectionID=1   (1743 words)

  
 Problems and Opportunities for Citizen Power in Venezuela
First, the geographic divisions of the municipalities and districts are inconsistent with the idea of participatory democracy and actually impede participation.
Taking into consideration that all of the municipalities receive the same budget (likewise with the districts), it is obvious that those with a lower population are able to tackle problems with a higher rate or success.
Not surprisingly, the wealthy are generally concentrated in sparsely populated municipalities of Chacao, Baruta, and El Hatillo, while the poor reside in the outskirts of the city, in Libertador and Sucre.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1331   (3414 words)

  
 Venezuela States
Venezuela is divided into 23 estados (states), one dependencias federales (federal dependencies), and one distrito capital (capital district).
As related to the pre-1819 divisions, Apure department corresponded roughly to Barinas province; Orinoco department to the provinces of Barcelona, Cumaná, Guayana, and Margarita; Venezuela department to Caracas province, and Zulia department to the provinces of Coro, Maracaibo, Mérida, and Trujillo.
According to Agustin Codazzi's Atlas fisico y politico de la Republica de Venezuela (1840), the populations and areas of the thirteen provinces were as follows.
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 World Peace Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Traditionally, Venezuela's foreign relations were defined by the country's strong relationship with the U.S., regional and global relations generally took a backseat to its relations with Washington.
Venezuela's conventional crude oil reserves are the sixth largest in the world and amount to 77 billion barrels.
Venezuela, Russia and Iran have strong incentive to keep oil prices high as they are dependent on high oil prices for continued political, social and economic stability.
www.wpherald.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20051122-040435-8957r   (2162 words)

  
 Badell & Grau - Economic Framework in the Constitutional Convention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Since Venezuela is a federal state and since the public power is territorially distributed between three levels or powers: national, state and municipal; each level has its own taxation powers.
The Central Bank of Venezuela is an entity of unique legal nature and its main task is to create and maintain monetary, credit and exchange conditions that encourage the stability of the currency, foster economic equilibrium and promote an ordered development of the economy.
The Central Bank of Venezuela Act of 1992, provided the autonomy of the Central Bank Policy Board, in respect to the exercise of their duties, in order to prevent interferences from any other branch of the national power (and specially, the executive) in the formulation and application of the tools of monetary policy.
www.badellgrau.com /legiseconom.html   (3768 words)

  
 Aragua State (Venezuela)
The yellow symbolizes the tropical sun, which characterizes the state and equally the Nobility and the Charity, virtues that are part of the personality of its native ones.
Historical Synthesis: Aragua is one of the north central and coaster states of Venezuela and its Capital is the city of Maracay.
In their visit to Venezuela on 1800, they calculated that the plant then was about 1.000 years old.
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 ipedia.com: Zulia State Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The lake is the largest body of water of this type found in South America and the Lake Maracaibo Basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in this hemisphere.
A long and mostly uninhabited border separates Venezuela from Colombia to the north and west from the Guajira Peninsula to the mountains of Perija.
Venezuela's Andean states of Tachira, Mérida and Trujillo border Zulia State at the Southern end of Lake Maracaibo and finally the states of Lara and Falcón complete the boundaries of Zulia.
www.ipedia.com /zulia_state.html   (276 words)

  
 NED Venezuela programs FAQ
In recent years in Venezuela the trade unions have been threatened with dissolution, journalists have been put at risk with their freedom curtailed and democratic institutions and processes have been manipulated and undermined.
The objective of the NED's programs in Venezuela, as in all such countries where democratic rights are threatened, has been and remains to support groups and individuals struggling to strengthen democratic processes, rights, and values, irrespective of their political or partisan affiliations.
NED does not, in Venezuela or elsewhere, fund groups based upon their support for or opposition to the government.
www.ned.org /grants/venezuelaFacts.html   (900 words)

  
 Delta Amacuro State (Venezuela) # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge Shop ...
Sky blue represents the Deltaic sky where the hope covers and protects the aspirations of the inhabitants of the region, inspiring the force to raise their spirit and to overcome the difficulties that can limit the harmonic and deserved development of the state.
The stars symbolizes the four municipalities which conform the state and are white for remember the peace, the harmony, the spiritual tranquility and the bonanza necessaries for the well-being of the Deltaic community.
The Freedom Goddess represents sovereign Venezuela and its intimate union with Delta Amacuro: the command baton that carries in her dexter reminds the protection that the Nation offers to this part of its territory.
www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/ve-y.html   (859 words)

  
 Sucre State (Venezuela)
A two-colour field (white, light-blue; these divided diagonally), serve as bed for the State's badge on the white half (upper, lying on the hoist side); and for eleven, white, five-pointed stars (one for each of the State's municipalities; their number changes accordingly).
In the accompanying text, it is said that the number of stars depends on the number of districts (today municipalities) which belong to the state.
Oscar Prieto Ruíz and approved on November 24th, 1965 by the Legislative Assembly by means of the Law of Flag, Shield and Hymn of Sucre State, it was ratified by the Legislative Assembly and hoisted for the first time on February 3rd, 1996.
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 Amazonas State (Venezuela) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Estado Amazonas is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided.
New Granada – Bolívar in Venezuela (1813-1814) – Bolívar's War – Battle of Carabobo – Battle of Lake Maracaibo – Congress of Angostura – Gran Colombia – Bolivarian Revolution  
Demographics – Catholicism – Bolivarian Missions – Media – Hospitals – Colleges and universities – Miss Venezuela
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 Venezuela
Venezuela is a constitutional democracy with a president and unicameral legislature.
The Caracas Metropolitan Police is the main civilian police force in the five municipalities that form the capital.
Arbitrary detentions by the Caracas Metropolitan Police, the DISIP, municipal police forces, the National Guard, and the CICPC continued; however, PROVEA estimated that the number of persons detained in anti-drug sweeps had declined.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41778.htm   (12679 words)

  
 flag of Caracas - Capital District (Venezuela) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
Later 1994, approximately and presumably as a result of the change of municipal authorities, it was decided to place the Caracas CoA slightly increased of size on the center of the field, configuration that maintains at the present time.
The flag that you was the first one of Libertador Municipality whose capital is Caracas and it had use during the final part of the Eighties.
The Coat of Arms of the City of Caracas was adopted by the Libertador Municipality to identify itself and later the Metropolitan Mayor Office assumed the lion, the scallop and the St.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ve-a.html   (2587 words)

  
 Anzoategui State (Venezuela)
The Phoenix symbolizes the fatherland reborn of their own ashes and the broken chains, the emancipation of the Spanish yoke and the liberation of the slaves, decreed by General José Gregorio Monagas, illustrious son of the State, when he was President of Venezuela in 1854.
The lower quarter of the Coat of Arms shows a silvered bull stand on a natural landscape and looking to the right of the shield on azure (blue) ground, for represents the cattle-rising riches of this federal entity.
The cimier it's a naissant sun in Or (yellow) for represent the geographical situation of the state: the eastern region of Venezuela.
www.fanshop-online.de /fahnen-flaggen-infos/ve-b.html   (534 words)

  
 WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE 8/9/98, #445
The FARC also said it obtained 285 weapons and 16 radios in the attacks, along with "documents useful for our military intelligence." [FARC-EP Communique 8/6/98] Two bases attacked by the FARC were in Arauquita and Fortul, in Arauca department, where at least 6,000 indigenous residents campesinos started a civic strike on July 30.
The municipalities of Tame, Saravena, Arauquita and Fortul, have been completely shut down by the strike; residents are protesting paramilitary attacks and the government's economic neglect of the region.
As of Aug. 1, the strike had reportedly spread to other municipalities in the nearby departments of Boyaca and Norte de Santander, involving some 25,000 campesinos.
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 Bolivar State (Venezuela)
The yellow symbolizes the auriferous wealth of the region; the green, the forest that surrounds it and the blue, the rivers that are plentiful there, whilst the stars remember the incorporation of the Province of Guayana to the cause of the Independence of Venezuela.
Historical Synthesis: The author of the design and meaning of the Bolivar State flag is the famous Venezuelan plastic artist Jesus Soto and entered in force with the Law of Shield, Seal, Anthem, Flag and other Symbols of Bolivar State on October 10th, 2000.
Independence of Venezuela was signed and ; "15 DE FEBRERO DE 1819" (February 15th, 1819) the date when Republic of the Great Colombia was founded and "16 DE DICIEMBRE 1863 (December 16th, 1863), the date when the ancient Province of Guayana was incorporate to the Venezuelan Federation.
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 Venezuela Holds Municipal Elections - Worldpress.org
Pro-Chávez organizations presented a single, unified slate of candidates, while the opposition, some of whom called for a boycott of the elections, was fragmented, with its leaders incapable of agreeing on fielding joint candidates.
At municipal and parish council elections last week, despite the low turnout, Chávez parties won 80 percent of local seats.
Venezuela Breaks Ties with D.E.A. On the same day the municipal and parish council elections took place, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the cessation of ties with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, according to Chávez, owing to D.E.A. agents’ espionage activities.
www.worldpress.org /Americas/2133.cfm   (841 words)

  
 Carabobo State (Venezuela)
Carabobo is one of the northern, coaster and central states of Venezuela and its flag consists of five horizontal stripes with different sizes.
The name of the Carabobo State is an homage to the Battle which sealed the Independence of Venezuela in 1821.
On the center, an attic and silvered column reminds that was ordered to erect by the Congress of Cucuta to commemorate the victory, which the Patriot Army reached in the Battle of Carabobo on June 24th, 1821, date inscribed on the pedestal.
www.fanshop-online.de /fahnen-flaggen-infos/ve-g.html   (749 words)

  
 Tachira State (Venezuela) # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge Shop ...
The Flag - Attributes and Meaning: The Táchira State is located in the Andean region to the southwest of Venezuela.
Red is the blood shed by the people of Tachir a in the independence struggle and in the liberal revolutions.
The lady represents Venezuela vigilant of her borders because the river not only gives name to the Táchira state but that it is, in addition, an international landmark.
www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/ve-s.html   (665 words)

  
 flag of Cojedes State (Venezuela) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
The Cojedes State Flag - Attributes and Meaning : Cojedes is a central-western state of Venezuela and its flag is divided on three horizontal stripes.
The fl stripe is occupied 1/6 part under the orange stripe and symbolizes the ferreous temper of the metal, the science, the industry and the fortitude to the Cojedenians, as remind of the laborious pledge of their ancestors.
Unfortunately, the other municipal flags are unknown to me.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ve-h.html   (656 words)

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