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Venezuela is mentioned in 1,654 articles and has appeared on 2 TIME covers

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Ever since Christopher Columbus first explored its Caribbean coast in 1498, Venezuela has been known as the gateway to South America. But it got its name from one of the great gateways to Europe: Venezuela means "Little Venice," which the Spaniards called the country after seeing the stilt houses the Guajiro Indians had built in ... Read More

Venezuela Articles

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VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat

Feb. 28, 1955

(See Cover) Westward out of Caracas, a speeding convoy of official limousines and patrol cars snaked down the winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season ...
VENEZUELA: Old Driver, New Road

Feb. 8, 1960

(See Cover] A new band of leaders, grimly and responsibly determined to rescue their people from disease, starvation and ignorance, is at work in Latin America. These leaders replace the medal-jingling military popinjays of old; they shun the demagogic example of Fidel Castro in Cuba; they cherish such institutions as Congress, courts, constitution. They are ...
VENEZUELA: Nationalizing Oil, Building Steel

Mar. 24, 1975

Its Caribbean beaches, its expanses of jungle, its kinetic, polyglot capital, have long made Venezuela a fascinating place for off-the-beaten-trackers to visit. More important, for six decades the country has been sort of an ancillary Texas, supplying the U.S. with immense quantities of cheap and handy oil. Now, riding on the rapid ascent of petroleum ...
Is Chavez Taking Too Many Oil Risks?

Nov. 29, 2007 | By Tim Padgett

Venezuela needs to invest to boost its oil output. But at $98 a barrel, why bother? Call it the ChÃƒÂ¡vez conundrum
Venezuela: Good Will from Petropower

Aug. 31, 1981 | By George Russell

An OPEC member helps bankroll its less well-off neighbors In Jamaica, the conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga discovered shortly after its election last October that it desperately needed $100 million in operating funds. Seaga passed the word to a group of visiting U.S. and Venezuelan businessmen who were looking at ways to revive ...