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Venezuela Is A Beautiful Country

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Venezuela Venezuela is a country of natural beauty and full of natural resources. Its levels of raw materials and the diversity of its people, makes of Venezuela a beautiful country in South America and around the world. According to the Venezuelan Government website, Venezuelan history goes back 15,000 to 5.000 years before our era. But the real history begins in the 1400s when Christopher Columbus became the first Spanish explorer to touch the Venezuelan lands in 1498 (Oberhelman, ph2). Follow by Spanish conquer Alonso de Ojeda, who actually gave the country its name, Venezuela became another conquered country with so many hiding treasures not known to the world yet. The country became a must have by other European nations, including Great Britain who at that time, owned the country of Guyana which it borders Venezuela. The Spanish conquerors remained in Venezuela for more than 300 years, and it wasn’t until 1821 that a man named Simon Bolivar, along with other revolutionaries liberated Venezuela from the Spanish conquers and acquiring independence for the country. Venezuela is a country that throughout the years has tried to become a democratic country. In 1998, Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela with the intentions of making a Venezuela a better country. His intentions were to rewrite a new constitution in order to improve the state and fight poverty (Coronel, 2008). Years passed and Venezuela has become worse compared to what it was before Hugo Chavez

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