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Ministry Of Defense (Venezuela)
The Venezuelan Ministry of People's Power for Defense is the federal-level organization responsible for maintaining the Venezuelan armed forces. As of October 2014, this ministry is headed by General Vladimir Padrino López The ministry coordinates numerous counter-narcotics operations (''e.g.'', Operation Sierra through the CUFAN organ), helps perform various civil support and social development programs, and oversees the conventional military capabilities of Venezuela. History * 1810 Established as War and Navy Bureau * 1863 Ministry of War * 1874 Ministry of War and Navy * 1946 Became Ministry of National Defense * 1951 Name amended to Ministry of Defense * 2007 Renamed Ministry of People's Power for Defense by presidential decree Lists of Ministers of Defense See also *Cabinet of Venezuela References External links *Sitio oficial del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Defensa de Venezuela y los Ex-Ministros*Sitio oficial del Ejército Libertador (Venezuela)*Sitio ofic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Venezuela
Venezuela is a federal presidential republic. The chief executive is the President of Venezuela who is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly. Legislative power Legislation can be initiated by the executive branch, the legislative branch (either a committee of the National Assembly or three members of the latter), the judicial branch, the citizen branch ( ombudsman, public prosecutor, and controller general) or a public petition signed by no fewer than 0.1% of registered voters. The voting age is 18, and voting is compulsory. Executive power The president is elected by a plurality vote with direct and universal suffrage for a six-year term. A president may be re-elected perpetually (only in consecutive terms) as of 15 February 2009. The president appoints the Vice President. The president decides the size and composition of the cabinet and makes appointments to it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Gregorio Monagas
José Gregorio Monagas (4 May 1795 – 15 July 1858) was the president of Venezuela 1851–1855 and brother of José Tadeo Monagas.Official biography Early life and education General José Gregorio Monagas was born in Aragua de Barcelona, , in 1795. His parents were Francisco José Monagas, a merchant from the , and Perfecta Burgos, a native of Cojedes. Monagas started his military career at an early age, in 1813, along with ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleazar López Contreras
José Eleazar López Contreras (5 May 1883 – 2 January 1973) was the president of Venezuela between 1935 and 1941. He was an army general and one of Juan Vicente Gómez's collaborators, serving as his War Minister from 1931. In 1939, López Contreras accepted on behalf of Venezuela the ships ''Koenigstein'' and ''Caribia'' which had fled with Jews from Germany. López Contreras cabinet (1935–41) Personal life Eleazar López Contreras was married to María Teresa Núñez Tovar, who served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1936–1941. File:María Teresa Núñez Tovar.jpg, María Teresa Núñez Tovar See also *Presidents of Venezuela *List of Venezuelans Famous or notable Venezuelans include: Architecture * Jimmy Alcock * Esther Ayuso * Federico Beckhoff * Anita Berrizbeitia * Guido Bermudez * Bernardo Borges * Dirk Bornhost * Carlos Brillembourg * Cipriano Dominguez * Julián Ferris Beta ... References *General Eleazar López Contreras— Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bautista Pérez
Juan Bautista Pérez (20 December 1869 – 7 May 1952), was a Venezuelan lawyer, magistrate, and politician who served as the president of Venezuela between 1929 until 1931. Afterwards he served as Ambassador to Spain until 1933. His period in office saw several attempts to overthrow Juan Vicente Gómez (who remained the country's ultimate authority) including one by Román Delgado Chalbaud and another by Rafael Simón Urbina Rafael Simón Urbina López ( Puerto Cumarebo, 1897 - Caracas, 13 November 1950) was a Venezuelan rebel who fought against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. Biography Early battles Implicated in a 1919 conspiracy to overthrow President G ..., both in 1929. Background Graduated as a lawyer at the Central University of Venezuela around 1895, Pérez practiced his profession in Villa de Cura (Edo. Aragua). In 1900, he returned to Caracas, where he entered the magistracy until reaching the Presidency of the Federal Court and Cassation (1929). At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorino Márquez Bustillos
Victorino Márquez Bustillos (2 November 1858 – 10 January 1941), was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician, and was provisional president of Venezuela from 1914 to 1922. Although Bustillos was elected by Congress, General Juan Vicente Gómez remained the real power behind the presidency. Victorino Márquez died in Caracas on 10 January 1941, aged 82. Early life Márquez was the son of Victorino Márquez and Virginia Bustillos. He married Enriqueta Iragorry Briceño. Political career State of Los Andes The political career of Márquez began in modern-day Trujillo under the governments of Juan Bautista Araujo and Leopoldo Baptista. While in Trujillo, he served as director of the newspaper ''El Trujillano'' for ten years between 1877 and 1887. In 1890, the State of Los Andes – which today are the states of Mérida, Trujillo and Táchira – chose Márquez to be their deputy. Crespo government In 1892, despite being the second cousin of the recently overthrown Preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón (24 July 1857 – 17 December 1935) was a Venezuelan military general A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ..., Politician and President of Venezuela, ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, ruling through puppet governments in between. Important public works were carried out during his dictatorship. He founded the country's first airline, Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela and the Bolivarian Military Aviation, Venezuelan Military Aviation. He commissioned the construction of Venezuela's first airports: Maracaibo International Airport "Grano de Oro", La Fría, Encontrados, Sucre Base (now Florencio Gomez National Airport in Maracay, Aragua), Aragua Meteorological Air Base (the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cipriano Castro
José Cipriano Castro Ruiz (12 October 1858 – 4 December 1924) was a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan military, politician and the president of Venezuela from 1899 to 1908. He was the first man from the Andes to rule the country, and was the first of four military strongmen from the Andean state of Táchira to rule the country over the next 46 years. Early life Cipriano Castro was the son of José Carmen Castro and Pelagia Ruiz. He was born on 12 October 1858 in Capacho, Táchira. Castro's father was a mid-level farmer and he received an education typical of the tachirense middle-class. His family had significant mercantile and family relations with Colombia, in particular with Cúcuta and Puerto Santander. After studying in his native town and the city of San Cristóbal, he continued his studies at a seminary school in Pamplona, Colombia (1872–1873). He left those studies to return to San Cristóbal, where he began work as employee of a company called Van Dissel, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquín Crespo
Joaquín Sinforiano de Jesús Crespo Torres (; 22 August 1841 – 16 April 1898) was a Venezuelan military officer and politician. A member of the Great Liberal Party of Venezuela, he served as the president of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and again from 1892 to 1898. He began his career as a soldier during the Federal War. Presidency Joaquín Crespo became president for the first time in 1884. In 1886 Guzmán Blanco returned as president. Crespo went into exile during the presidency of Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl which marked a break with Guzmán Blanco's policies. During the second Joaquín Crespo regime, which began in 1892, a new constitution increased the presidential term. The Venezuelan crisis of 1895 saw Venezuela's longstanding dispute with Great Britain about the territory of Guayana Esequiba come to a head with the USA giving diplomatic support to Venezuela. Britain claimed the territory as part of British Guiana while Venezuela saw it as Venezuelan. The disputed border w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Guzmán Blanco
Antonio José Ramón de La Trinidad y María Guzmán Blanco (28 February 1829 – 28 July 1899) was a Venezuelan military leader, statesman, diplomat and politician. He was the president of Venezuela for three separate terms, from 1870 until 1877, from 1879 until 1884, and from 1886 until 1887 and General during the Venezuelan Federal War. He was a member of the movement known as ''Liberalismo Amarillo''. Early life and education Guzmán was born in Caracas as the son of Antonio Leocadio Guzmán, a Venezuelan journalist, politician as well as founder of the Liberal Party and Carlota Blanco Jerez de Aristeguieta. Career Military career and ambassador He was banished by the administration of General Julián Castro, and accompanied General Juan Crisóstomo Falcón in his invasion of Venezuela, becoming his general secretary. After the final defeat of Falcón at the Battle of Coplé in September, 1860, Guzmán accompanied his chief in his flight, and was sent to the West Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ruperto Monagas
José Ruperto Monagas (1831 – 12 June 1880) was a Venezuelan Militant and Politician, son of José Tadeo Monagas and Luisa Oriach. He was the president of Venezuela between 1869–1870 because he won the presidential elections in the period of 1868-1870 In 1857. As a representative of the city of Maturín, he made the Constitution of April of that year. In March of the following year, he was appointed commander of Barcelona, a position from which he was a supporter of President Julián Castro, despite which General Justo Briceño, a representative of the Government, imprisoned him in the castle of Puerto Cabello distrusting his loyalty. towards the regime. Biography Born in Aragua de Barcelona in 1831 and died in the same town on June 12, 1880. Personal life José Ruperto Monagas was married to Esperanza Hernández, who served as First Lady of Venezuela First Lady of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Primera Dama de Venezuela'') is the unofficial title traditionally held by the wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Crisostomo Falcon
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'. Notable people * Juan (footballer, born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born March 2002), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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