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Antonio Leocadio Guzmán Blanco 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.
Cúcuta, officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, on the border with Venezuela. It comprises an area of approximately 1119 km2, with an urban area of 64 km2 and a rural area of 1055 km2. The city has a population of 777,106 inhabitants, which makes it the most populous municipality in the department and the sixth most populous municipality in the country. Similarly, its metropolitan area has an approximate population of 1,046,347.
William Anthony Colón Román is an American Salsa musician and social activist. He began his career as a trombonist but also sings, writes, produces and acts. Colón is considered a pioneer of Salsa music and a best-selling artist in the genre, having been a key figure in the nascent New York City scene associated with the legendary Fania Records. He is also noteworthy for having assumed the gangster image in his album covers before it was culturally popular. Since the 1980s he has at times been deeply involved in the politics of New York City.
Jonathan Daniel Montenegro Uzcátegui is a well known Venezuelan actor and singer. Montenegro was a member of the popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo.
Colón is a town in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira. This town is the shire town of the Ayacucho Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 48,982.
Navegantes del Magallanes B.B.C., commonly known as Navegantes del Magallanes, or simply Magallanes, are a baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, based in Valencia, Carabobo. Founded in 1917, Magallanes is considered one of the most successful clubs in Venezuelan baseball. The team has won 13 LVBP championships and 2 Caribbean Series.
Jean-Paul Leroux is a Venezuelan film actor. His career started in small roles in theater, but his true career started in the critically acclaimed movie Secuestro Express in 2005, along with Argentine actress Mía Maestro. He also appeared in the 2006 Venezuelan film Elipsis along with Gaby Espino, Edgar Ramirez and Christina Dieckmann among others. He acted in the unrealesed Spanish-Venezuelan film Lo Que Tiene el Otro, directed by Miguel Perello. He also played the starring role in "Por Un Polvo", a Venezuelan Film by Carlos Malave. In 2007 he acted in the Colombian Film "La Vida era en Serio" directed by Monica Borda. And recently played the starring role in the Venezuelan Film "Las Caras del Diablo"
La Intrusa is a Venezuelan telenovela produced by Radio Caracas Televisión in 1986. Based on a story written by Inés Rodena, it is a remake of the 1971 telenovela La usurpadora which starred Marina Baura and Raul Amundaray with the new version being written by Ana Mercedes Escámez, Benilde Ávila and Zaret Romero.
Jacinto Convit García was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine and held many leprosy-related positions. Among Convit's many honors for his work on leprosy and tropical diseases was Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category and France's Legion of Honor. In 1988, Convit was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his experimental anti-leprosy vaccine.
Zulia Fútbol Club was a professional football club that last competed in the Primera División Venezolana. The club was based in Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela, and it's internationally recognized for his participation in the 2019 Copa Sudamericana, where the club was eliminated by Colón de Santa Fe, Argentinian club, in quarter-finals.
Serbia and Venezuela maintain diplomatic relations established between SFR Yugoslavia and Venezuela in 1951.
Jennifer Colón is a Puerto Rican beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2024. As a 36-year-old woman and single mother of three children, Colón made history by becoming the first woman over the age of 28 and first mother to win the title. In the history of Miss Universe, Colón was the second woman over the age of 32 and currently one of the three oldest women to have been selected to compete in the pageant. She was also the fourth mother and second single mother to have been selected to participate in the pageant. Colón will represent Puerto Rico in Miss Universe 2024.
Juan José Morales is an Argentine football forward.
The Juan Manuel Valdez Airport or Güiria Airport, formerly known as Cristóbal Colón Airport, is an airport serving Güiria, in the state of Sucre in Venezuela.
La Cuaima, also known as Carmencita, la Cuaima, is a Venezuelan telenovela created by Carlos Pérez that premiered on Radio Caracas Televisión on August 6, 2003, and ended on February 9, 2004. It stars Catherine Correia as the titular character.
Oriana Yoselyn Altuve Mancilla is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a forward for the club Deportivo La Coruña and the Venezuela women's national team.
Idanis Del Valle Mendoza Conde is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a centre-back for Argentine club UAI Urquiza. She has been a member of the Venezuela women's national team.
The Second Battle of La Puerta was fought between Royalists of the Spanish Empire and the Second Republic of Venezuela on 15 June 1814. It was a crushing defeat for the Republicans and a turning point in the war that led to the fall of the Second Republic of Venezuela.
The Fifth Battle of Maturín was a military confrontation on 11 December 1814, that resulted in the epilogue of the Second Republic of Venezuela. The Royalist forces, which for two years had tried to conquer the city, destroyed the last great Patriot garrison that remained in the country.
Venezuelan Patriots
United Provinces of New Granada 
Spanish Empire 
