Lara State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Lara is located in the Central-Western Region,Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto.
The State of Mérida commonly known simply as Mérida is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Mérida,in the Libertador Municipality.
Barquisimeto is a city in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region,Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban,industrial,commercial and transportation center of the country,recognized as the fourth-largest city by population and area in Venezuela after Caracas,Maracaibo and Valencia.
Jaime Ramón Lusinchi was the president of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis,growth of the external debt,populist policies,currency depreciation,inflation and corruption that exacerbated the crisis of the political system established in 1958.
Marisabel Rodríguez Oropeza is a Venezuelan journalist,publicist and radio announcer. She is best known for having been the second wife of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara was a professional football club based in Barquisimeto,Lara State,that was promoted to the Venezuelan league in 2009,in their first year of existence.
The Farid Richa Stadium is a football facility located in the capital city of Lara state,Barquisimeto,in the central-western part of Venezuela. It serves as the home ground for the second-division local football teams Policía de Lara F. C.,Unión Lara S. C.,and Unión Deportiva Lara. Additionally,it hosts the top-division team Asociación Civil Deportivo Lara. The stadium was named in honor of the distinguished Lebanese-origin player,Farid Richa.
The Republic of Venezuela was a democratic republic first established in 1953,and replaced in 1999 by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuela saw ten years of military dictatorship from 1948 to 1958. After the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état brought an end to a three-year experiment in democracy,a triumvirate of military personnel controlled the government until 1952,when it held presidential elections. These were free enough to produce results unacceptable to the government,leading them to be falsified and to one of the three leaders,Marcos Pérez Jiménez,assuming the Presidency. His government was brought to an end by the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état,which saw the advent of democracy with a transitional government under Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal in place until the December 1958 elections. Prior to the elections,three of the main political parties,Acción Democrática,COPEI and Unión Republicana Democrática,with the notable exclusion of the Communist Party of Venezuela,signed up to the Puntofijo Pact power-sharing agreement.
Natividad Barroso Garcia is a Venezuelan investigator of ethno-folklore,essayist and Venezuelan poet. She is co-founder and member of the Association of Writers of Lara State and a university professor with a range of scientific and humanistic interests that go from literature and linguistic to the anthropology and the ethnology.
Henri Falcón Fuentes is a Venezuelan politician. He was mayor for two consecutive terms of Barquisimeto,Iribarren Municipality (2000–2008) and governor of Lara State (2008–2017). He was a candidate in the 2018 Venezuelan presidential election.
El Impulso is the oldest newspaper in Venezuela founded in 1904,it's a regional newspaper,headquartered in Barquisimeto,in the state of Lara. El Impulso is a family owned business,and its currently managed by the fourth and fifth generation.
Higinia Bartoloméde Alamo (?–?) was a Venezuelan poet and writer from Barquisimeto. A contemporary of professor Alberto Castillo Arráez,she was the wife of Dr. Antonio Alamo (1873-1953),Minister of Development and governor of Bolívar state during the government of Juan Vicente Gómez.
Blanca Alida Ibáñez Piña is a Venezuelan private secretary and widow of former President Jaime Lusinchi. She is the daughter of María del Rosario Piña and Carlos Julio Ibáñez.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Venezuela by 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. Leading opposition candidates have been disqualified from participating in the election during campaign or in previous elections. In June 2023,the leading candidate María Corina Machado was barred from participating by the Venezuelan government for alleged political crimes. This move has been regarded by the opposition as violation of political human rights and has been condemned by international bodies like the Organization of American States,the European Union,and Human Rights Watch,as well as countries such as Colombia,Paraguay,Uruguay,Ecuador,United States,United Kingdom,Germany,Chile,Canada,France and Mexico.
Lewis Pérez was a Venezuelan politician who served as a Senator.
Addy Coromoto Valero Velandria was a Venezuelan politician who served as a deputy in the National Assembly.
Leopoldo JoséMartínez Nucete is a Venezuelan-American lawyer,writer,and politician. He was previously a member of the Democratic National Committee and an opposition deputy in the National Assembly of Venezuela. Martinez is the current nominee to become the United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The Democratic Alliance was a political coalition created to face the government of Nicolás Maduro in the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election and grouped in the National Assembly. It is made up of Hope for Change,Cambiemos and Progressive Advance parties of the predecessor coalition Agreement for Change,in addition to the intervened parties Democratic Action and Copei,and the later incorporated Primero Venezuela,United Venezuela,Ecological Movement,Unidad Vision Venezuela,Country Commitment and the also intervened Popular Will.
JoséBernabéGutiérrez Parra is a Venezuelan politician who served as Governor of Amazonas from 1996 to 2001,and Senator representing Amazonas from 1994 and 1996. He was a notable leader of Democratic Action (AD) in the last years of Venezuela's bipartisan democracy. In 2020 he was appointed by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) as chair of AD and currently leads the pro-government version of the party.
Pablo Acosta Ortiz Revete (1864–1914) was a Venezuelan medical doctor,academic,surgeon,politician and college professor known as the magician of the scalpel and considered the founder of modern surgery in Venezuela. He attended the 4th and 5th Pan American Sanitary Conferences as a representative of Venezuela.
