| VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT STATS: |
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Capital city
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Caracas |
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Corruption
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2.3 |
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[132nd of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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12% |
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[53rd of 143]
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Procedures to register property > number
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8
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[41st of 167]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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18 %
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[66th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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16
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[7th of 171]
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Status
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pseudo-democracy |
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Suffrage
18 years of age; universal |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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276 days
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[32nd of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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435 days
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[97th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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47 days
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[88th of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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141 days
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[8th of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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864 hours
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[13th of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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4 years
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[36th of 151]
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Trademarks, nonresidents
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10,390
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[13th of 99]
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Trademarks, residents
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13,313
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[17th of 98]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
claims all of the area west of the Essequibo River in Guyana, preventing any discussion of a maritime boundary; Guyana has expressed its intention to join Barbados in asserting claims before the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with Venezuela extends into their waters; dispute with Colombia over maritime boundary and Venezuelan-administered Los Monjes islands near the Gulf of Venezuela; Colombian-organized illegal narcotics and paramilitary activities penetrate Venezuela's shared border region; in 2006, an estimated 139,000 Colombians sought protection in 150 communities along the border in Venezuela; US, France, and the Netherlands recognize Venezuela's granting full effect to Aves Island, thereby claiming a Venezuelan EEZ/continental shelf extending over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea; Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines protest Venezuela's full effect claim |
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UN membership date
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15 Nov. 1945 |
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United Nations mission
http://embavenez-us.org/
http://www.un.int/venezuela/ing.htm |
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
Georgetown |
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