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Machado called for a return to the street on 28 August with a rally centered at Avenida Francisco de Miranda in Caracas to reject the TSJ validation of Maduro as victor in the election, with a rally slogan of A la calle el 28 (to the street on the 28th) and the hashtag, #ActaMataSentencia ('a record kills a sentence', referring to the vote ...
The creation of the Capitania General of Venezuela englobes Cumana, Maracaibo, Guayana, Trinidad and Margarita that is an important portion of the Caribbean region of the vice-royalty of New Grenade. [2] In 1812, in the Cortes de Cadiz, the province of Maracaibo is represented by José Domingo de las Nieves Rus y Ortega de Azarraullía.
Maracaibo is nicknamed "The Beloved Land of the Sun" (Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada). Maracaibo is considered the economic center of western Venezuela, owing to the petroleum industry that developed in the shores of Lake Maracaibo. It is sometimes known as "The First City of Venezuela", for being the first city in Venezuela to adopt various ...
Jesús Enrique Lossada lies northwest of Lake Maracaibo in the Maracaibo Basin. The municipality borders the municipalities of Mara to the north, Maracaibo and San Francisco to the east, La Cañada de Urdaneta to the southeast, and Rosario de Perijá to the southwest. [4] To the west it borders the Colombian departments of Cesar and La Guajira.
There were between 20 and 100 different colectivo groups in Venezuela as of 2014, with the most prominent groups being the Tupamaros, La Piedrita, Tres Raices, Frente Francisco de Miranda, Alexis Vive, and Ciudad Socialista Frente 5 de Marzo, [6] [29] [102] [103] In 2018, InSight Crime reported 46 groups in the 23 de Enero barrio alone. [6]
4 April – At the JM de los Rios Children's Hospital in Caracas, dozens of Venezuelan children suffering from cancer protested due to the lack of attention and medicine that they suffer from. [ 24 ] 9 April – Dozens of Venezuelans suffering from Parkinson's disease protested in Plaza Altamira against the government after promised medicine ...
Gaita zuliana (often simply called "gaita") is a style of Venezuelan folk music (and dance) from Maracaibo, Zulia State.Dating as far back as the 1800s, [1] gaitas began as improvised songs in the neighborhoods of Zulia where, as Robert T. Carroll describes, “people would gather in a circle and encourage each other to make up verses to a song."
Tirone José González Orama (11 March 1988 – 19 January 2015), better known by his stage name Canserbero, [4] was a Venezuelan rapper, singer and writer. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he is considered to be one of the most significant and influential figures in the history of Latin and independent rap in Latin America.