Today, St. Joseph’s Day is a major feast celebrated by multiple countries. Because it falls during Lent, which Catholics traditionally mark with abstinence from meat, St. Joseph’s Day celebrations are also associated with meatless dishes. People take the day to celebrate with family and friend...
Got an idea for a holiday? Send it to us Submit Now Share Tweet Pin SatJul 5 AwarenessCivicHistorical Venezuela Independence Day – July 5, 2025 VenezuelaHistory Timeline FAQs Importance ObserveVenezuela Independence Day is celebrated annually on July 5, commemorating its history as the first ...
Now we invite you to a virtual tour: Angel Waterfall of Venezuela — The World's Highest Waterfall During last several years we have shot aerial panoramas of the world's most famous and exotic waterfalls: Iguazu Falls in Brazil/Argentina; Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe; Black Waterfall in ...
Now we invite you to a virtual tour: Angel Waterfall of Venezuela — The World's Highest Waterfall During last several years we have shot aerial panoramas of the world's most famous and exotic waterfalls: Iguazu Falls in Brazil/Argentina; Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe; Black Waterfall in ...
More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014, the largest exodu in Latin America’s recent history. U.S. oil sanctions have only deepened the misery, and the Biden administration — which had been easing those restrictions — is now likely to ramp them up again ...
Listen Now Venezuela boasts the largest oil reserves of any country in the world. Yet today it is facing the worst economic crisis in its history. So why? We could go backdecades if not centuriesin search of answers to this question. But to keep things more concise, a good starting point...
Other articles documented the fact that China was now Venezuela's second largest trade partner, behind the U.S. (Busch, 2014), and that Huawei was linked to Venezuela's “oil for goods” payment scheme through the CDB (Sender, 2014). The “oil for goods” mechanism allowed Huawei to sel...
He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. ( Also on POLITICO: Timeline: Hugo Chavez’s life and career) Chavez repeatedly ...
“This is not a new world its simply an extention of what began in the old one, it has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. “It has refinements, technological advances to the destr...
Part 1 starts with a short historical overview of Venezuela’s gold up to 1992, followed by an examination of where the gold, and the claims on gold, were located just prior to repatriation in 2011. It also drills down into the composition of the gold now held in the BCV vaults and ...