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Encyclopedia > Democratic Action (Venezuela)
Politics of Venezuela

Politics of Venezuela
Political parties in Venezuela
Elections in Venezuela:
1998 (pres) - 2000 (pres) - 2004 (recall) Image File history File links Venezuela flag 300px height unified for the national flags serie, by user:Marc Mongenet, from CIA World Factbook, borders removed, high compression ratio, some color or ratio corrections from http://www. ... The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Liberal democracy History of democracy Referenda Representative democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Elections Elections by country Elections by calender Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by ideology... Current President Hugo Chávez was elected in December 1998 on a platform that called for the creation of a National Constituent Assembly in order to write a new Constitution. ... Political parties in Venezuela lists political parties in Venezuela. ... Politics of Venezuela Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Venezuela ... A presidential election was held in the Republic of Venezuela on 6 December 1998. ... A presidential election was held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on 30 July 2000. ... The Venezuelan recall referendum of 15 August 2004 was a referendum to determine whether Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, should be recalled from office. ...

The Democratic Action(Acción Democrática or AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic political party. It was established on September 13, 1941 by Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco, Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, Luis Lander, Raúl Ramos Jiménez, Medardo Medina Febres, Enrique H. Marín, Rafael Padrón, Fernando Peñalver, Luis Augusto Dubuc, César Hernández, and Ricardo Montilla. Gallegos was the author of the best selling Latin American novel, Doña Bárbara and Andrés Blanco was a Venezuelan poet. Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Representative democracy History of democracy Referenda Liberal democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Ideology Elections Elections by country Elections by calender Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rómulo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 4 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...


The party played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy. Many of its founders and early members helped to bring down Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship in the late 1950s. Four Venezuelan presidents came from Accion Democratica between the 1960s and 1990s. By the end of the '90s, the party's credibility was almost nonexistent, mostly because of the corruption and poverty that Venezuelans experienced during the party's time in power. Marcos Pérez Jiménez Marcos Pérez Jiménez (April 25, 1914 – September 20, 2001) was president of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958. ...


Currently the party is deeply fragmented trying to regain the trust of the majority of Venezuelan society and fighting the government of Hugo Chávez Frías. President Hugo Chávez in 2003 Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) is the President of Venezuela. ...


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Venezuela. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (2702 words)
Geographically Venezuela is a land of vivid contrasts, with four major divisions: the Venezuelan highlands, the coastal lowlands, the basin of the Orinoco River, and the Guiana Highlands.
Administratively, Venezuela consists of 23 states, a federal district, of which Caracas is a part, and a federal dependency, which includes 11 island groups.
Later, however, Simón Bolívar (born in Venezuela) and his lieutenants, working from Colombia, were able to liberate Venezuela despite setbacks administered by the royalist commander, Pablo Morillo.
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