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After that the United Kingdom furthered their interest against Dutch colonies of Batavian republic as allied of Spain and France in the War of the Second Coalition. In 1800 the United Kingdom invaded Aruba, Curazao, and Dutch Guyana colonies of Batavian republic. The presence of a power other than the Netherlands alarmed the Spanish government ...
Spain's colonization of mainland Venezuela started in 1522. Spain established its first permanent South American settlement in the present-day city of Cumaná . When Spanish colonists began to arrive, indigenous people lived mainly in groups as agriculturists and hunters: along the coast, in the Andean mountain range, and along the Orinoco River .
The Protocol to the Agreement to resolve the controversy between Venezuela and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the frontier between Venezuela and British Guiana, simply known as the Port of Spain Protocol, is a protocol of the 1966 Geneva Agreement between Guyana and Venezuela and a 12-year moratorium on Venezuela's reclamation of Guayana Esequiba.
Venezuela and Canada have had diplomatic relations since January 1953. The relations between the two countries have been based on mutual commercial interests; especially in technology, oil and gas industry, telecommunications and others. Venezuela is Canada's second largest export market in South America for goods as well as for services. [66]
In 1789, Spain created two settlements in Santa Cruz de Nuca and Fort San Miguel, both located in Nootka Sound. At the maximum extent of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, Spain controlled territories from the end of the Southern Cone to current Alberta and Saskatchewan. [2] In July 1935, Canada and Spain established diplomatic relations. [3]
In February 1948, there was a Canadian Consulate General in Caracas and a Venezuelan Consulate General in Montreal.In that year, the Venezuelan Consul General, on behalf of the government of Venezuela, made a rapprochement with Canada in order to open direct diplomatic representations between the two countries; [2] but the Canadian government delayed the opening of a diplomatic mission in ...
Latin America–United Kingdom relations are the diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the countries of Latin America. England and Great Britain had long-standing interests in colonial Latin America , including privateering , the slave trade (and its abolition ), and founding their own colonies in the West ...
The bilateral relations between Canada and the United Kingdom have yielded intimate and frequently-co-operative contact since Canada gained independence in 1931. Canada was previously self-governing since 1 July 1867, the date that became Canada's national holiday.