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Venezuela's Independence Wars Ended Exactly 200 Years Ago


Venezuela's Independence Wars Ended Exactly 200 Years Ago

The war lasted until June 24th, 1821, when the army led by Simón Bolívar defeated the Spanish troops in the savannah of Carabobo. Actually, the ...

Venezuelan War of Independence - Wikipedia

After two more years of war, the country achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simón Bolívar. Venezuela, along with the present-day ...

Venezuela - Independence, Revolution, Bolívar | Britannica

The Republic of Gran Colombia, with its capital at Bogotá, was proclaimed on December 17, 1819, with Bolívar as president. On June 24, 1821, Bolívar's troops, ...

The end of autocracy in Venezuela? | Human Rights - Al Jazeera

Last month, exactly 207 years after the start of the Venezuelan revolution, the country experienced yet another revolt. The main difference ...

The Meaning of the 1811 Independence for Today's Venezuela

The first armed rebellion was in 1795. Exactly one hundred years before the death in combat of José Martí in another independence movement in ...

Venezuela's Chavez Era | Council on Foreign Relations

Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement-200 attempts to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez. Marred by blunders (the coup plotters are unable to ...

Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate

In recent years, Venezuela has suffered economic collapse, with output shrinking significantly and rampant hyperinflation contributing to a scarcity of basic ...

Venezuela celebrates 200th anniversary of independence battle

Venezuela on Thursday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, the most important battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence against the ...

Francisco de Miranda | Venezuelan Revolutionary, Patriot & Visionary

The end of the Napoleonic Wars prompted a period of disengagement ... the man called the Little Corporal has captivated the public for two hundred years.

Crisis in Venezuela - Wikipedia

An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez and has worsened during the presidency of successor ...

Venezuela's Fight For Independence: The Battle of Carabobo

Fought during the Spanish-American wars of independence, the second battle at Carabobo in 1821 ultimately led to Venezuela's independence from the Spanish ...

Brief Histories - Marine Corps University

The Treaty of Paris in April 1783 brought an end to the Revolutionary War and as the last of the Navy's ships were sold, the Continental Navy and Marines went ...

Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895–1899 - Office of the Historian

For the next 19 years Venezuela repeatedly petitioned for U.S. assistance, calling on its neighbor to the north to intervene by either sponsoring arbitration or ...

Political Conflict and Economic Growth in Post-Independence ...

The Venezuelan economy has suffered three catastrophes since independence: a long stag- nation in the mid-nineteenth century, a devastating ...

Venezuela, 1821: The Battle of Carabobo - CGTN America

It was almost 200 years ago that Spanish colonial rule came to a bloody end, and the legend of an independence hero was born. 1821 CARABOBO ...

GlobalTrends_2040.pdf - DNI.gov

During the next 20 years, the physical effects from climate change of higher tem- ... across issues since the end of the Cold War are likely to face increasing ...

History of Galápagos

Isabela was formed when six volcanoes joined above sea level. Geologically, the Galapagos Islands are quite young, probably no more than five million years old.

Russian-Venezuelan Relations at a Crossroads - Wilson Center

Following the end of the. Cold War and Latin America's so-called “left turn,”4 Moscow concluded that the Russian government could easily recruit new supporters ...

Monroe Doctrine ‑ Definition, Purpose & Significance | HISTORY

With the end of the Cold War and the dawn of the 21st century, the ... Why the U.S. Has Spent 200 Years Flip-Flopping Between Isolationism and ...

Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on ...

The International Economy, the Environment, and. Development. I. Decline in the 1980s. II. Enabling Sustainable Development. III. A Sustainable World Economy.