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A characteristic common to Spanish in Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Costa Rica is the use of the diminutive-ico and -ica, instead of the standard -ito and -ita in words with -t in the last syllable: rata ("rat") becomes ratica ("little rat"). Another noteworthy diminutive is "manito," instead of the more common "manita."
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American, Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1980. Sara Bendahan, the first Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in that country. Maruja Clavier, was one of the first Venezuelan nuclear oncologists.
Coat of arms of Venezuela in 1871 with the phrase Dios y Federación Dios y Federación (English: God and Federation ) is considered the traditional state motto of Venezuela . It was first used as the rallying cry of the rebel forces during the Federal War , and it was subsequently incorporated into the country's coat of arms after the conflict ...
Venezuela's cultural heritage includes the original Venezuelan natives, the Spanish and Africans who arrived after the Spanish conquest, and the 19th century waves of immigration that brought many Italians, Portuguese, Arabs, Germans, Moroccan Jews, and others from the bordering countries of South America. About 93% of Venezuelans live in urban ...
On May 25, 1881, the Gloria al Bravo Pueblo was definitively consecrated as the National Anthem of Venezuela, by means of a decree issued by the then President, Antonio Guzmán Blanco. After this decree and the publications of the National Anthem that were made in 1883 , a new official edition was produced in 1911 to commemorate the centenary ...
Undocumented Venezuelans in the United States could be eligible for Temporary Protected Status under the federal government’s recent expansion of the program, which made about 472,000 additional ...
The Venezuelan opposition unified around Edmundo Gonzalez as a second-alternate, charging through the Maduro regime’s obstacles toward the July 2024 Venezuelan election. By almost all accounts ...
Central joropo (Spanish: joropo central) is also known as tuyero ("Tuyan"), joropo tuyero ("Tuyan joropo") or golpe tuyero ("Tuyan beat"). [3]Characteristic of the central states of Venezuela, like Aragua and Miranda, eastern Carabobo and northern Guárico, central joropo, or tuyero (as practiced in the Valles del Tuy along the Tuy River) is sung accompanied by harp (arpa tuyera, sometimes ...