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Name of the country: Venezuela
long conventional Name: Republic bolivarienne of Venezuela
conventional Name court: Venezuela
long local Name: Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela
local Name court: Venezuela

Mnemonic of the country: VE

Standard of government: Federal republic

Capital: Caracas

administrative Divisions: 23 states ( estados - estado in the singular), 1 federal district ( distrito federal ) and a federal dependence ( dependencia federal ).
List of the administrative divisione: Amazonas, Anzoategui, Audits, Aragua, Barinas, Bolivar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Dependencias Federales **, Distrito Federal*, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Vargas, Yaracuy, Zulia
note: the federal dependence is made up of 11 groups of islands (72 islands on the whole) controlled fédéralement.

Independence: July 5th 1811 (independence with respect to Spain).

Bolivarienne Constitution: December 30th 1999

Vote: as from 18 years - vote for all

executive Body:
Head of the State: President Hugo Chávez Frías (since the February 2nd 1999); note: the president is at the same time Head of the State and chief of the gouvernement.
Chief of the government: President Hugo Chávez Frías (since February 2nd, 1999).
Cabinet: the Council of Ministers named by the president of République.
Elections: the president is elected by the universal direct suffrage, every 6 years. The last elections took place the December 6th 1998, then the May 28th 2000 (under the new constitution).
Results of the elections: Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998 with 57% of the suffrages.

legislative Body: National Assembly (or Asamblea Nacional ) unicamérale: following the constitution of 1999, the Congress of the Republic, bicameral, was replaced by an National Assembly unicamérale. The members of the assembly are elected by a popular vote for a five years mandate. Three of the seats are reserved to the indigenous populations of Venezuela.

legal Body: the magistrates of the supreme court of justice (or Tribuna Suprema de Justicia ) are elected for one 12 years period by the National Assembly.

Political parties:

  • Movement of the fifth republic (MVR)
  • a new time (UNTC)
  • Primero Justicia (MPJ)
  • a fatherland for all (PPT)
  • Left social Christian (COPEI)
  • democratic Action (AD)
  • Movement towards Socialism (FARMHOUSE)
  • national Convergence (Convergencia)
  • the radical cause (Caused It R/LCR)

Lobbies:

  • FEDECAMARAS : group preserving contractors
  • VECINOS
  • Confédération vénézuélienne of workers (CTV): Labor organization dominated by the Democratic party Action.

Description of the flag: three horizontal bands of equal width: yellow (in top), blue and green, with the weapons on the yellow tape (on the side of the fixing of the flag), and in the center of the blue band, an arc of eight stars with five branches.

Composition of the government of the Republic bolivarienne of Venezuela

Government of February 2nd, 1999

(altered the July 6th 1999, 13 and January 23rd 2000, |1 {{er}} February 2000, December 24th 2000, February 2nd 2001, July 25th 2001, December 27th 2001, January 11th 2002, April 28th 2002, 5 and May 17th 2002, October 5th 2003, December 5th 2004, March 22nd 2005, in July 2005, February 24th 2006).

  • Vice-president of the Republic , Mr. Jose Vicente Rangel

  • Public prosecutor of the Republic , Mrs. Marisol Plaza Irigoyen

  • Ministers :

    • Minister for the Secretariat of the Presidency, Mrs. Delcy Rofriguez (02.06)
    • Minister of Interior Department and Justice, Mr. Jesse Chacon Escamillo
    • Foreign Minister, Mr. Ali Rodriguez Araque (20.11.04)
    • Minister for Finance, Mr. Nelson Merentes (05.12.04)
    • Minister for Defense, Admiral Ramon Orlando Maniglia Ferreira (05.07.05)
    • Minister for Social development and the popular, General Participation Jorge Garcia Carneiro
    • Minister for Tourism, Mr. Wilmar Castro Soteldo (05.10.03)
    • Minister for the Food, Mrs. Erika Farias (24.02.06)
    • Minister for the Infrastructures, Mr. Ramon Carrizales Rengifo
    • Minister for Agriculture and the Grounds, Mr. Elias Jaua (24.02.06)
    • Minister for Housing, Mr. Julio Assemble
    • Ministre for the popular Economy, Mrs. Oly Milan (24.02.06)
    • Ministre for Science and Technology, Mrs. Marlena Yadira Cordova (22.10.02)
    • Ministre for Education and the Sports, Mr. Aristobulo Isturiz (27.12.01)
    • Ministre for the Culture, Mr. Francisco Sesto Novas
    • Ministre for Higher education, Mr. Samuel Moncada
    • Minister for Labor, Mr. Ricardo Dorado (24.02.06)
    • Minister for Energy and Oil, Mr. Rafael Ramirez
    • Minister of environment and for the renewable Natural resources, Mrs. Jacqueline Faria
    • Minister for Planning and the Development, Mr. Jorge Giordani
    • Minister for Health and Social development, Mr. Francisco Armada
    • Minister for the Communication and Information, resignation the 27.07.05
    • Minister of state for the special economic Zones, Mr. Jose Francisco Natera
    • Minister of state for Integration and the Foreign trade, Mr. Gustavo Mark Marine
    • Ministre of Basic industries and mines, Mr. Victor Alvarez
    • Minister for Light industry and the Trade, Mrs. Maria Cristina Iglesias (24.02.06)

Participation in the international organizations

Venezuela is represented within the following organizations:

IAEA, BIRD, EDGE, Caricom (observant), CCC, CDB, CEPALC, CIO, international Confederation of the free trade unions, CMT, UNCTAD, the Red Cross, CPI, FAO, G3, G11, G15, G19, G24, G77, IADB, FIDA, the IMF, FSM, HCR, IFC, IHO, Intelsat, Interpol, ISO, LAES, LAIA, MINURSO, Movement of non-aligned the, ICAO, OAS, ILO, OMC, OMI, OMI, OMM, OMPI, WHO, OMT, UNO, OPANAL, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, RG, UIT, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNU, UPU.

External bond

  • Official site of the government Venezuelan

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