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Republic of Venezuela
Topic Started: Sep 5 2006, 12:08 PM (441 Views)
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Republica de Venezuela

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President José Tadeo Monagas, serving the term 1855-1858

Population: 1,406,000
Capital: Caracas
Type of Government: Disorganised Federal Republic
Official Language: Queertalk
Main Ethnic Groups: White Spanish, Native Amerindian, Mixed Mestizo, Black African


History

Venezuela was colonised by Spain in 1522. In what is now the city of Cumaná, Spain established their first permanent South American settlement.

At the time of the Spanish arrival, the indigenous people were mainly agriculturists and hunters living in groups along the coast, the Andean mountain range, and along the Orinoco River. Nueva Toledo, the first permanent Spanish settlement in South America, was established in Venezuela in 1522.

An abortive plan for German settlement from German Habsburg lands, to be financed through the Fugger bankers, never came to fruition. By the middle of the 16th century, there were still little more than 2,000 Europeans in what is now Venezuela. The opening of gold mines at Yaracuy led to the introduction of slavery, at first with the indigenous population, then with imported Africans. The first real success of the colony was the raising of livestock, much helped by the grassy plains known as llanos. The society that developed as a result — a handful of Spanish landowners and widely-dispersed Indian herdsmen on Spanish-introduced horses — was so primitive that it recalls feudalism, certainly a powerful concept in the 16th-century Spanish imagination, and perhaps more fruitful economic comparison to the latifundia of Antiquity.

During the 16th and 17th century, the provinces which constitute today's Venezuela were relatively neglected. The Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru (located on the sites formerly occupied by the capital cities of the Aztecs and Incas) were more interested in their nearby gold and silver mines than in the agricultural societies of Venezuela. Responsibility for the Venezuelan territories shifted between the two Viceroyalties.

In the 18th century, a second Venezuelan society formed along the coast when cocoa plantations were established, this time manned by much larger importations of African slaves. Quite a number of black slaves were also to be found in the haciendas of the grassy llanos.

The Province of Venezuela was under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (created in 1717). The Province was then transformed into the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777. The Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas held a close monopoly on trade with Europe.

The Venezuelans began to grow restive under colonial control toward the end of the eighteenth century. The Napoleonic Wars in Europe weakened Spain's imperial power and the Venezuelans achieved home rule after a coup on April 19, 1810, and later declared independence from Spain on July 5, 1811. The war for independence ensued. On December 17, 1819 the Congress of Angostura established Gran Colombia's independence from Spain. After several more years of war, which killed half of Venezuela's white population, the country achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of its most famous son, Simón Bolívar. Venezuela, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a sovereign country.
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Foreign Relations of Venezuela

Friendly Relations

- United States of America
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Indifferent Relations

- Austrian Empire
- Japanese Empire
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
- Kingdom of the Hellenes
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Ottoman Empire
- Republic of Argentina
- Republic of Chile
- Republic of Ecuador
- Republic of Peru
- Russian Empire

Unfriendly relations

- Brazilian Empire – Dispute over the Land north of the Rio Negro
- Republic of Colombia – Dispute over much of the Republic/Gran Colombia
- United States of Mexico – Dispute over Panama

Hostile relations

-None

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Government Organisation

Politics of Venezuela takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Venezuela is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly. The Constitution designates three additional branches of the federal government--the judicial, citizen, and electoral branches.

National Assembly of the Republic
Office of the President
-Vice President
- Ministry of War
-- Office for the Navy
-- Office for the Army
-- Office for Arms and Finance
- Ministry of Social Development
- Ministry of National Developement
- Ministry of Justice
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry for the Central Bank
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Venezuelan Army

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Strength of the Venezuelan Army:
- 32,000 infantry (infantería)
- 4,000 cavalry (caballería)
- 40 cannons (cañón)

1st Army Location Caracas:
- 1st infantry regiment (5,000 infantry)
- 2nd infantry regiment (5,000 infantry)
- 5th infantry regiment (1,000 infantry)
- 1st cavalry battalion (1,000 calvalry)
- 2nd cavalry battalion (1,000 cavlary)
- 2 attachments of cannon containing 10 cannons each(20 total)

2nd Army Location Western Venezuela around Maracaibo:
- 3rd infantry regiment (5,000 infantry)
- 6th infantry regiment (4,000 infantry)
- 3rd cavalry battalion (1,000 cavalry)
- 1 attachment of cannon containing 10 cannons

3rd Army Location Eastern Venezuela around Ciudad Guayana:
- 4th infantry regiment (5,000 infantry)
- 7th infantry regiment (4,000 infantry)
- 4th cavalry battalion (1,000 cavalry)
- 1 attachment of cannon containing 10 cannons
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Venezuelan Navy

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3rd Rate Ship-of-the-Line(67 Smoothbore, 8 8'' Shell firing Guns) - Sao Pedro
5th Rate Frigate(36 Smoothbore, 4 8'' Shell firing Guns) - Atacante
6th Rate Frigate(23 Smoothbore, 2 8'' Shell firing Guns) - Madalena
6th Rate Frigate(23 Smoothbore, 2 8'' Shell firing Guns) - Sao Vicente
6th Rate Frigate(23 Smoothbore, 2 8'' Shell Firing Guns) - Quelimane
6th Rate Frigate(23 Smoothbore, 2 8'' Shell Firing Guns) - John Adams
6th Rate Frigate(23 Smoothbore, 2 8'' Shell Firing Guns) - Papaco
Unrated Merchant Convert(3 guns) - Tungue
Unrated Merchant Convert(6 guns) - Maravilhoso
Unrated Merchant Convert(5 guns) - Lourenco Marques
Unrated Merchant Convert(5 guns) - Lourenco Marques II

Dockyards

Maracaibo - Medium Dockyard
Caracas - Medium Dockyard
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State of the Economy

Current Tariffs and Trade Concessions

General Tariffs, set by the Office of trade and tariffs on goods entering from particular nations and trade concessions offered to them by the Venezuelan government (NETC = No Existing Trade Concessions)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: – 5.5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of France: – 5.5% Tariff, NETC
Russian Empire: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Austrian Empire: – 5% Tariff, NETC

German Federation: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Prussia: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Italy: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of the Netherlands: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Spain: – 7% Tariff, NETC
Mehemite Empire: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Poland: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Portugal: – 7% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Denmark: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of the Hellenes: – 5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Serbia: – 5% Tariff, NETC

Empire of Japan: – 5.5% Tariff, NETC

United States of America: – 5.5% Tariff, NETC
United States of Mexico: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Republic of Columbia: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Argentine Republic: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Brazilian Empire: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Republic of Chile: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Kingdom of Peru: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC
Republic of the Andes: – 4.5% Tariff, NETC

Special Tariffs and Concession

Special Tariffs, set by the office of trade and tariffs to protect local industries, or tax luxury goods a fair amount for the government, note that these are only for imported goods, and locally produced ones will remain free of the tariffs.

Coffee - 60% Tariff
Sugar - 60% Tariff
Bananas - 60% Tariff
Maize - 60% Tariff
Sorghum - 60% Tariff
Jewellery - 40% Tariff
Luxury Fabrics - 20% Tariff
Items Classed as Antiques - 20% Tariff
Vodka, Whiskey, Rum, Gin ect. - 20%
Wine, Beer, Sherry ect. - 10%
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