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The recovery of oil prices in the early 2000s gave Venezuela oil funds not seen since the 1980s. [2] A destabilized economy led to a crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, resulting in hyperinflation, an economic depression, shortages of basic goods and drastic increases in poverty, disease, child mortality, malnutrition, and crime. [3] [4]
In January 2019, the Redes Foundation denounced in the Colombian Public Ministry that armed groups made up of ELN members and FARC dissidents, supported by the Bolivarian National Police and FAES officials, killed two Venezuelan protesters, Eduardo José Marrero and Luigi Ángel Guerrero, during a protest in the frontier city of San Cristóbal ...
The 2010 Colombia-Venezuela diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between Colombia and Venezuela over allegations in July 2010 by outgoing President Álvaro Uribe that the Venezuelan government was actively permitting the Colombian FARC and ELN guerillas to seek safe haven in its territory.
The first stage of the pipeline is 224.4 kilometres (139.4 mi) long and it runs from Maracaibo in the state of Zulia in Venezuela to Puerto Ballena gas fields in La Guajira, Colombia. At the first stage, the pipeline pumps natural gas from Colombia to Venezuela. [ 6 ]
Central Bank of Venezuela: Central bank [1] Caracas [2] 1939 [3] Banco Bicentenario: State-owned Caracas: 2009 Banco Industrial de Venezuela: State-owned Caracas: 1937 2016 Banco de Venezuela: Privately owned Caracas: 1890 Banesco: Publicly traded Caracas: 1992 [4] Mercantil Banco: Privately owned Caracas: 1925 BBVA Provincial: Publicly traded ...
The border between Colombia and Venezuela. Colombia and Venezuela in 1898. The border between Colombia and Venezuela. The Colombia–Venezuela border is an international border of 2219 kilometers (1378 mi) between Colombia and Venezuela, with a total of 603 milestones that demarcate the line. [1] It is the longest border of both Colombia and ...
Reunification of Gran Colombia refers to the potential future reunification of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama under a single government. Although Gran Colombia was dissolved in the 19th century, [ 1 ] interest and efforts in reunification were expressed as early as 1903 when Panama separated from Colombia .
It has been calculated that from 1998 to 2013, over 1.5 million Venezuelans (between 4% and 6% of the Venezuela's total population) left the country following the Bolivarian Revolution. [39] Former Venezuelan residents have been driven by lack of freedom, high levels of insecurity, and inadequate opportunities in the country.