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Vanessa Davies (writer)
Vanessa Davies (born 1969) is a Venezuelan journalist. Early life and education Davies was born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui state, and studied social communication at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Career As a reporter for '' El Nacional'', Davies published reports about abuses by security and military deployed by Hugo Chávez, who initially denied the allegations. Davies was subsequently subpoenaed for questioning by the DISIP, which was criticized by Foreign Minister José Vicente Rangel, and followed by an admission by the Chávez government that security forces had killed more than sixty people in December 1999. Davies wrote an open letter calling for an investigation by the Prosecutor General's Office. Chávez invited Davies to accompany him to question the families she had interviewed, and Chávez then promised to improve human rights in Venezuela. During her career at ''El Nacional'', she also published two articles about " transgender and ''transformista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tigre
El Tigre () is a city of Venezuela located in the state Anzoátegui. It is the capital of Simón Rodríguez Municipality and it is located south in Anzoategui state, equidistant from the Orinoco River and the Caribbean Sea in the Guanipa Mesa at 295 m altitude, crossed by the Tigre River; with an average temperature of 79 °F and an annual average rainfall of 1,200 mm. One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire, Venezuela, Chimire Cliffs. El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito, capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is ''84,526 '' inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be ''291,472 '' inhabitants. Since the appointment of Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anzoátegui
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Central University Of Venezuela
The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in Latin America. Founded in 1721, it is the oldest university in Venezuela and one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. The main university campus, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, was designed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and it is considered a masterpiece of urban planning and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. History Origins The origin of the university goes back to Friar Antonio González de Acuña (1620–1682), a Spanish Bishop born in present day Peru who studied theology at the Universidad de San Marcos and founded in 1673 the Seminary Saint Rose of Lima in Caracas named after the first Catholic Saint born in the Americas. In the following years, Friar Diego de Baños y Sotomayor broadened the scope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Nacional (Venezuela)
''El Nacional'' is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its ''El Nacional'' newspaper and website. It, along with ''Últimas Noticias'' and '' El Universal,'' are the most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country. In 2010, it had an average of 83,000 papers distributed daily and 170,000 copies on weekends. Since the increase of censorship in Venezuela during the presidencies of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, ''El Nacional'' has been described as one of the last independent newspapers in Venezuela. ''El Nacional'' published its final print edition on 14 December 2018 (after having been cut to five print editions per week back in August), joining in the dozens of anti-government newspapers in the nation that have stopped printing due to paper and toner shortages. It became an exclusively online newspaper after the date. Contributors and owners ''El Nacional'' was founded in August 1943 in Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012. Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer and, after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Chávez led the MBR-200 in its unsuccessful coup d'état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. Pardoned from prison two years later, he founded the Fifth Republic Movement political party, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Vicente Rangel
José Vicente Rangel Vale (10 July 1929 – 18 December 2020) was a Venezuelan politician and journalist. He ran for president three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez. He served under Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2001, as Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2002, and as the vice president from 2002 to 2007. Political activism Born in Caracas, he returned to Venezuela following the downfall of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958 and was elected to the Congress that same year, representing the Democratic Republican Union (''Unión Republicana Democrática,'' URD). In addition to his political activities, he worked as a lawyer and journalist. He also made presidential bids on three occasions: in the 1973 presidential election and 1978 presidential election as candidate of ''MAS – Movimiento al Socialismo'' ( Movement for Socialism), and in the 1983 presidential election as candidate of ''MEP – Movimiento Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through transitioning, often adopting a different name and set of pronouns in the process. Additionally, they may undergo sex reassignment therapies such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery to more closely align their primary and secondary sex characteristics with their gender identity. Not all transgender people desire these treatments, however, and others may be unable to access them for financial or medical reasons. Those who do desire to medically transition to another sex may identify as transsexual. ''Transgender'' is an umbrella term. In addition to trans men and trans women, it may also include people who are non-binary or genderqueer. Other definitions of ''transgender'' also include people who belong to a third gender, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transformista
Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone (usually male) who performs femininely and a drag king is someone (usually female) who performs masculinely. Performances often involve comedy, social satire, and at times political commentary. The term may be used as a noun as in the expression ''in drag'' or as an adjective as in ''drag show''. __TOC__ Etymology The use of "drag" in this sense appeared in print as early as 1870Oxford English Dictionary 2012 (Online version of 1989 2nd. Edition) Accessed 11 April 2012 but its origin is uncertain. One suggested etymological root is 19th-century theatre slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor. It may have been based on the term "grand rag" which was historically used for a masquerade ball. Some have suggested that drag stands for "dressed as a girl". In folk cus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual may not notice any symptoms, or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. Typically, this is followed by a prolonged incubation period with no symptoms. If the infection progresses, it interferes more with the immune system, increasing the risk of developing common infections such as tuberculosis, as well as other opportunistic infections, and tumors which are rare in people who have normal immune function. These late symptoms of infection are referred to as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This stage is often also associated with unintended weight loss. HIV is spread primarily by unprotected sex (including anal and vaginal sex), contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correo Del Orinoco (2009)
''Correo del Orinoco '' (the ''Orinoco Post'') is a Venezuelan newspaper launched in 2009 with government backing. (Carroll's article can also be accessed aChavez in driver's seat as he silences his critics The New Zealand Herald. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2015.) It is named for its nineteenth-century predecessor, which under the patronage of Simón Bolívar promoted Venezuelan independence. It uses the slogan "the artillery of thought". The original ''Correo del Orinoco'' was published on the Orinoco river, but the modern newspaper is based in Caracas. The newspaper is affiliated to the Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. In 2010 the ''Correo del Orinoco'' launched a weekly English-language edition, ''Correo del Orinoco International'', with Eva Golinger as its editor. On 12 January 2016, Desirée Santos Amaral, a former Minister of Communication and Information, became the new editor of Correo del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Socialist Party Of Venezuela
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left Socialism, socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since 2010. It was formed from a merger of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution led by President Hugo Chávez. It is the largest political party in Venezuela and the List of largest political parties#Parties with over 50 million members, 11th largest in the world with more than 7 million active members as of 2014. At the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, winning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats. In the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2020 elections however, amid a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aporrea
Aporrea is a Venezuelan website that publishes news and opinions from a left-wing perspective. It ranks as the fourth most visited local political site in the country, according to site metrics Alexa.com, and it claims to be the first among local independent left-leaning outlets. Most of the site'a content was supportive of the political changes championed by late president Hugo Chávez, but in recent years, it heavily carries opinions and news articles critical of the current government led by Chavez's protégé Nicolas Maduro, turning it into a "gathering place for dissidence within chavismo". Aporrea is made up of volunteers who, depending on their personal and work commitments, donate their time to insert the news, complaints, post opinion articles and take to the streets to cover events not covered by other media outlets. History Aporrea was created after the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt to "defend the gains of the 1999 Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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