The National Experimental University of the Armed Forces (

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: ''Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica de la Fuerza Armada Bolivariana'', UNEFA) is a

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n public university associated with the Venezuelan armed forces. Founded in 1974 by the former president

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as the National Armed Forces Higher Polytechnical Institution (''Instituto Universitario Politécnico de las Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales''), it was renamed by the Venezuelan president

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in 1999. In 2009 it had 61 campuses, and was present in every

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, with 235,000 students enrolled in May 2009. Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica de la Fuerza Armada Bolivariana

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* José Salazar,

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