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 Subdivisions of Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Venezuela is divided into 23 states (estados), 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales de Ultramar) that consist on a large number of Venezuelan islands.
Prior to the Federal War (1859–1863), Venezuela was divided in provinces, rather than states.
Municipios are the fundamental unit of local government in Venezuela.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venezuelan_State   (181 words)

  
 Comparative Criminology | South America - Venezuela
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, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a sovereign country.
Venezuela is a transit country for essential chemicals, which are either exported legally to Colombia and other source countries, diverted for use in cocaine labs, or smuggled out of Venezuela for this purpose.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/samerica/venezuela.html   (13624 words)

  
 Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when it separated and became a sovereign country.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/wha/venezuela9705.html   (3218 words)

  
 The Economics, Culture, and Politics of Oil in Venezuela
Perhaps the most important thing to know about Venezuela is that it is an oil exporting country, the fifth largest in the world, with the largest reserves of conventional oil (light and heavy crude) in the western hemisphere and the largest reserves of non-conventional oil (extra-heavy crude) in the world.
Venezuela’s oil industry history can be roughly divided into four periods: the discovery and initial production of oil (1912-1943), Venezuela’s assertion of control over the oil industry (1943-1974), the oil boom and nationalization of the oil industry (1974-1998), and the government’s attempt to regain control over an increasingly independent oil industry (1999-2003).
That Venezuela had abundant supplies of oil was already known since the earliest pre-colombian times, when the indigenous peoples of Venezuela made use of oil and asphalt, which seeped to the surface, for medicinal and other practical purposes.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1000   (6775 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Venezuela, officially named the "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela"(Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is the northernmost country in South America and part of Caribbean South America.
To this day, Venezuela is known for its petroleum industry, the environmental diversity of its territory, and its sheer natural beauty.
Venezuela is also a reference for their world famous baseball players, such as Luis Aparicio, David Concepción, Oswaldo Guillén, Andrés Galarraga, Omar Vizquel, Luis Sojo, Bobby Abreu, and Johan Santana, winner of the Cy Young Award in 2004.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Venezuela   (4163 words)

  
 Background Notes: Venezuela
Venezuela's 19th-century history is characterized by frequent periods of political instability, dictatorial rule, and revolutionary turbulence.
Venezuela discovered large bauxite deposits near its eastern border in 1977 and is rapidly developing an aluminum industry; seven smelters are planned.
Venezuela and the United States have similar views on the importance of democratization as a key element in a solution to the long-term problems of Central America.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/wha/venezuela9011.html   (2330 words)

  
 Venezuela (11/03)
The population of Venezuela is comprised of a combination of European, indigenous, and African heritages.
Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold from other areas of the Americas.
Venezuela, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a separate sovereign country.
www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/v/1859.htm   (3718 words)

  
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venezuela - historical flags - republican age (1830 -)
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 http://potato/ethics/Countries/Venezuela/law.html
Venezuela’s current government describes itself as a republic that "is forever and irrevocably free and independent of any domination or protection by a foreign power." It consists of 22 federated states, and within is the federal capital of Caracas.
First, Venezuela at the beginning of this century was a country that depended mostly on its agriculture.
While there were two dictatorships, the truth is that during the dictatorships, the country had its lowest levels of corruption (actually, this term was unknown) and crime, as well as the highest level of infrastructure investment.
www.pitt.edu /AFShome/e/t/ethics/public/html/Venezuela/law.html   (1408 words)

  
 Venezuela
Venezuela is an active member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a signatory to the Bern Convention on the protection of copyrights and intellectual property.
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.
Venezuela is designated constitutionally as a republic that "is forever and irrevocably free and independent of any domination or protection by a foreign power" (Constitution of 23 Jan. 1961, art.
www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/sam/venz.html   (15814 words)

  
 Government and History (from Venezuela) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Venezuela is a federal republic divided into 20 states and four federally controlled areas.
The constitution of 1961 declares Venezuela a federal republic with “autonomous states,” but in fact nearly all power is held by the national government.
Venezuela is bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Colombia to the southwest and west.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-209790?ct=   (843 words)

  
 Euro: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The definitive values in euros of these subdivisions (which represent the exchange rate (The charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another) s at which the currency entered the euro) are as follows:
Venezuela (A republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil) under Hugo Chávez (additional info and facts about Hugo Chávez) has been a vocal proponent of this scheme, despite selling most of its own oil to the United States.
No "official" recommendation is made with regard to the use of a cent sign (additional info and facts about cent sign), and sums are often expressed as fractions of the euro (for example €0.05 rather than 5¢ or 5c).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/euro.htm   (5140 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.
www.statoids.com /uve.html   (2411 words)

  
 Venezuela Government Information
Venezuela’s prevailing political calm came to an end in 1989, when Venezuela experienced riots in which more than 200 people were killed.
Venezuela’s presidential recall referendum was held August 15, 2004.
Venezuela's history of free and open elections since 1958 and its prohibition of military involvement in national politics earned it a reputation as one of the more stable democracies in Latin America.
www.traveldocs.com /ve/govern.htm   (1847 words)

  
 Venezuela (11/05)
Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold and silver from other areas of the Americas.
Venezuela is currently advocating regional integration through its PetroCaribe petroleum initiative, the creation of a South American Community of Nations, and the establishment of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (a social integration project proposed by President Chavez as an alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas).
Venezuela has longstanding border disputes with Colombia--most recently over the capture of a Colombian insurgent leader inside Venezuela--and Guyana, but seeks in general to resolve them peacefully.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm   (4619 words)

  
 Froehle: The Catholic Church and Politics in Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
One notable example in Venezuela was the turn made by the Jesuits who published the magazine SIC, created during the 1930s as the organ of the interdiocesan seminary and dedicated to internal church issues.
In Venezuela this serves all the more to reinforce the conservatism of the native clergy because according to the modus vivendi of 1964, only Venezuelan-born priests may be appointed bishop.
Her article "Pentecostalism in Venezuela" related her observations of Pentecostal worship services, and in an interview with the author on May 21, 1991, she shared her observations of the Catholic charismatic movement over the past twenty years, particularly of the yearly Pentecost celebration held in Caracas.
www.dominicans.org /~ecleary/conflict/conflict06.htm   (9561 words)

  
 Venezuela in Different Perspectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He is from Venezuela, but he’s also part Portuguese because both of his parents are from Portugal, but have been living in Venezuela for a very long time.
Yes, we are ambassadors of many roles: family and country with all the understood subdivisions.
Venezuela is a great country, though it has been having serious financial and political difficulties.
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 Geography (from Venezuela) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
An economic study and proposals to improve the competitiveness of Venezuela's economy in the 1990s are presented in
The writings of Herodotus in the 5th century BC, particularly his discussion of how the Nile River delta formed, probably provides the earliest example of what would be called historical geography today.
It is bounded by the Guajira Peninsula on the west and by the Paraguaná Peninsula on the east and is connected with Lake Maracaibo to the south through Tablazo Bay and a channel 35 feet (11 m) deep near the city of...
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-219054   (1337 words)

  
 Venezuela -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Template:Venezuela infobox Template:Portal Venezuela, officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is the northernmost country in South America and part of Caribbean South America.
The centre of the country is characterised by extensive plains known as the llanos that stretch from the Colombian border to the river delta of the Orinoco east.
Template:Es icon Venezuela Information Office - Dedicated to informing the American public about contemporary Venezuela, and receives its funding from the government of Venezuela.
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Venezuela   (3151 words)

  
 Caribbean & Oceania Lodging Centre
The Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti is a major shipping route between the United States and the Panama Canal.
Many gulfs and bays indent the coastline of South America, notably the Gulf of Venezuela, which carries tidal waters to Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
The subdivisions of Oceania are Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, which are grouped together in accordance with the physical and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants.
www.ovayonda.net   (459 words)

  
 Welcome to Windstar Technologies. Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
b) in the case of Venezuela, any resident individual ("domiciliado"), any legal person that is created or organized under the laws of Venezuela, and any entity or collectivity ("entidad o colec~ividad") formed under the laws of Venezuela which is not a legal person but is subject to the taxation applicable to corporations in Venezuela.
The competent authorities of the Contracting States {the United States and Venezuela} shall notify each other of any significant changes that have been made in their respective taxation laws and of any official published material concerning the application of the Convention.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs I and 2, items of income of a resident of a Contracting State {Venezuela} not dealt with in the foregoing Articles of this Convention and arising in the other Contracting State {the United States} may also be taxed in that other State {the United States}.
www.windstar-tech.com /public/Ve.HTM   (1993 words)

  
 Government (from Venezuela) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
More results on "Government (from Venezuela)" when you join.
The city serves as the seat of government for Venezuela, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Directory of resources on this island republic of the West Indies, lying off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-32728   (849 words)

  
 Publication 901,estate tax,gift tax,death tax,immigration,immigrant,non american,tax advice,treaty visa,foreign ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Income that residents of Venezuela receive for personal services as independent contractors or self-employed individuals (independent personal services) in the United States is exempt from U.S. income tax if they do not have a fixed base regularly available to them in the United States for performing the services.
Pay received by a resident of Venezuela for services performed as an employee of a ship or an aircraft operated in international traffic is exempt from U.S. income tax.
These exemptions do not apply to income residents of Venezuela receive as public entertainers (such as theater, motion picture, radio, or television artists, or musicians) or sportsmen if their gross income, including reimbursed expenses, is more than $6,000 for their personal activities in the United States during the tax year.
www.offshore-financial-centre.net /text/04taxtreat.htm   (18502 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: America
In South America the exuberance of tropical life north of the Argentine plains, was as unfavorable to cultural growth as barrenness would have been.
Hence the Amazonian basin, Brazil, the Guyanas, and Venezuela, as well as the eastern declivity of the Andes in general, were thinly inhabited by tribes, few of which had risen above the stage of roving savages.
On the western slope of the Andes, in Columbia, the population was somewhat more dense and the houses, though still of wood and canes, were larger, and more substantially reared.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01409c.htm   (8271 words)

  
 Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Eastern Cordillera, longest of the three, branches off into Venezuela, and its highest elevations are above 5,000 m (16,400 ft).
Political subdivisions: 23 departments, 24, intendancies, 5 commissariats, 1 special district.
Maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela; territorial dispute with Nicaragua over Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank.
micolombia.8m.com   (1617 words)

  
 Venezuela identifies 'idle' farms
The are Cuban cadres throughout Venezuela and it is going to be very hard to organize any real effort to oust Chavez.
It should seem then that it must be because of the enormous wealth of the proprietors which places them above attention to the increase of their revenues by permitting these lands to be labored.
The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1314667/posts   (2234 words)

  
 CGTalk - CONVERT polis to subdivisions Not working
ive beeing modeling an alien head, the method starts with Nurbs, then converting into poligons, attaching the eye and ear in polis, then converting to subdivision and adding details etc...
After some succesfull heads after the yanomami, i started modeling an alien for an animation, i have that head quite done but i still need to convert it to subdivisions.
WHY the "convert /polis to subdivisions" tool doesnt want to work this time?
forums.cgsociety.org /showthread.php?t=81756   (423 words)

  
 Summary of Abortion Laws Around the World
In practice this would appear to be equivalent to saying that it is legal.
In a few cases -- most notably Australia, Mexico, Nigeria, and to some extent the United Kingdom -- different political subdivisions within the country have different laws.
In such cases we have tried to list the "typical" or "most common" law for that country.
www.pregnantpause.org /lex/world02.htm   (808 words)

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