|
Venezuela Government |
 |
Capital: caracas
Country name
: conventional long form: bolivarian republic of venezuela conventional short form: venezuela local long form: republica bolivariana de venezuela local short form: venezuela
National holiday: independence day. 5 july (1811)
Government type
:
federal republic
Administrative divisions: 23 states (estados. singular - estado). 1 federal district* (distrito federal). and 1 federal dependency** (dependencia federal); amazonas. anzoategui. apure. aragua. barinas. bolivar. carabobo. cojedes. delta amacuro. dependencias federales**. distrito federal*. falcon. guarico. lara. merida. miranda. monagas. nueva esparta. portuguesa. sucre. tachira. trujillo. vargas. yaracuy. zulia note: the federal dependency consists of 11 federally controlled island groups with a total of 72 individual islands |
|
 Venezuela More Facts |
Independence:
5 july 1811 (from spain)
Political parties and leaders: christian democrats or copei [eduardo fernandez]; democratic action or ad [jesus mendez quijada]; fifth republic movement or mvr [hugo chavez]; homeland for all or ppt [jose albornoz]; justice first [julio borges]; movement toward socialism or mas [hector mujica]; venezuela project or pv [henrique salas romer]; we can or podemos [ismael garcia]
|
|
|
|
|
Venezuela More Facts |
|
Political pressure groups and leaders:
fedecamaras. a conservative business group; vecinos groups; venezuelan confederation of workers or ctv (labor organization dominated by the democratic action)
International organization participation
: can. cdb. csn. fao. g-3. g-15. g-24. g-77. iadb. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icct. icftu. icrm. ifad. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom. iso. itu. laes. laia. mercosur (associate). miga. nam. oas. opanal. opcw. opec. pca. rg. un. unctad. unesco. unhcr. unido. upu. wcl. wco. wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto
|
