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European explorers named Venezuela ("Little Venice") after observing local indigenous houses on stilts over water. During the first quarter-century of contact, the Europeans limited themselves to slave hunting and pearlfishing on the northeastern coast; the first permanent Spanish settlement in Venezuela, Cumaná , was not made until 1523.
Venezuela is a diverse and multilingual country, home to a melting pot of people of distinct origins, as a result, many Venezuelans do not regard their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship or allegiance. Venezuela as Argentina and Brazil, received most immigrants, during 1820s to 1930s Venezuela received a major wave of 2.1 million ...
They are mostly immigrants who arrived in the country, like many other European nationalities, following the Second World War and the policies of the governments of the Warsaw Pact. [2] Romanians became adjusted to Venezuelan society, because Romanian and Spanish belong to Romance languages , as well as Romanians' Latin identity .
The refugee agency UNHCR estimates that more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America’s recent history, with most settling in the Americas, from ...
Though the 2011 Venezuelan Census states that "White" in Venezuela is used to describe the Venezuelans of European origin. [309] According to the 2011 National Population and Housing Census, 43.6% of the population identified themselves as white people. [8] A genomic study shows that about 60.6% of the Venezuelan gene pool has European origin ...
Over 7 million people have fled Venezuela alone, according to the United Nations. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have come to the U.S.-Mexico border since 2021.
Venezuelan people of European-Jewish descent (6 C) Venezuelan people of Scandinavian descent (2 C, 1 P) Venezuelan people of Yugoslav descent (1 C, 1 P) A.
José Antonio Colina, a former Venezuelan National Guard lieutenant who leads an organization of politically persecuted Venezuelans in South Florida, told the Herald that he respected the federal ...