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Democratic Unity Roundtable

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The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) is a catch-all electoral coalition of Venezuelan political parties formed in January 2008 to unify the opposition to President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela in the Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2010. [1]

88 relations: A New Era, Andrés Velásquez, Antonio Ledezma, Últimas Noticias, Big tent, Capital District (Venezuela), Centre-left politics, Centre-right politics, Centrism, Chavismo, Christian democracy, Christian Democrat Organization of America, Come Venezuela, Communism, Coordinadora Democrática (Venezuela), Copei, David De Lima, Democratic Action (Venezuela), Democratic socialism, Democratic Unity Roundtable presidential primary, 2012, Diego Arria, Ecological Movement of Venezuela, El Nacional (Caracas), El Tiempo (Anzoátegui), El Universal (Caracas), Electoral alliance, Enrique Mendoza, Fearless People's Alliance, Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas, Flag of Venezuela, For Social Democracy, Global Greens, Great Patriotic Pole, Green politics, Henri Falcón, Henrique Capriles, Henrique Salas Feo, Henry Ramos Allup, Hugo Chávez, Humanism, International Democrat Union, Jesús Torrealba, Justice First, Labour movement, Latin American Parliament, Left-wing politics, Leopoldo López, Liberal conservatism, Liberalism, List of Governors of States of Venezuela, ..., Manuel Rosales, María Corina Machado, Miranda (state), Movement for a Responsible, Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Venezuela, Movement for Socialism (Venezuela), Movimiento 2D, National Assembly (Venezuela), National Convergence (Venezuela), Neoliberalism, Pablo Pérez Álvarez, Parliamentary immunity, Popular Will, Progressive Advance, Progressivism, Project Venezuela, Radical Cause, Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, Red Flag Party, Súmate, Social democracy, Social liberalism, Socialist International, Supermajority, Union of Latin American Parties, United Nations, United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, 2017, Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2010, Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015, Venezuelan presidential election, 2006, Venezuelan presidential election, 2012, Venezuelan presidential election, 2013, Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004, Venezuelanalysis, Vicencio Scarano Spisso, Zulia, 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. Expand index (38 more) »

A New Era

A New Era (Un Nuevo Tiempo, UNT) is a centre-left political party in Venezuela.

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Andrés Velásquez

Andrés Velásquez is a Venezuelan politician of the Radical Cause (La Causa Radical) party.

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Antonio Ledezma

Antonio José Ledezma Díaz (born 1 May 1955) is a Venezuelan lawyer, politician and former political prisoner.

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Últimas Noticias

Últimas Noticias is the highest selling daily newspaper in Venezuela.

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Big tent

In politics, a big tent or catch-all party is a type of political party that seeks to attract voters from different points of view and ideologies.

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Capital District (Venezuela)

The Capital District (Distrito Capital) is Venezuela's federal district.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics or center-right politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-right politics, are politics that lean to the right of the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other right-wing variants.

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Centrism

In politics, centrism—the centre (British English/Canadian English/Australian English) or the center (American English/Philippine English)—is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society either strongly to the left or the right.

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Chavismo

Chavism (Spanish: chavismo), also known as Chavezism (Spanish: chavecismo), is a left-wing political ideology based on the ideas, programs and government style associated with the former President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez that combines elements of socialism, left-wing populism, patriotism, internationalism, Bolivarianism, feminism, green politics and Caribbean and Latin American integration.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as Neo-Calvinism.

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Christian Democrat Organization of America

The Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA, from Spanish: Organización Demócrata Cristiana de América) is an international organization made up of political parties that advocate the principles of Christian Democracy in their respective countries.

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Come Venezuela

Come Venezuela (Vente Venezuela) is a political movement in Venezuela.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Coordinadora Democrática (Venezuela)

The Coordinadora Democrática (Democratic Coordinator, CD) was an umbrella group of Venezuelan political parties and organisations opposed to President Hugo Chavez.

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Copei

COPEI, also called Social Christian Party (Partido Socialcristiano) or Green Party (Partido Verde), is a Christian democratic party in Venezuela.

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David De Lima

David Eugenio de Lima Salas (born 1959) is a Venezuelan politician.

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Democratic Action (Venezuela)

Democratic Action (Acción Democrática, AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic political party established in 1941.

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Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production with an emphasis on self-management and/or democratic management of economic institutions within a market socialist, participatory or decentralized planned economy.

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Democratic Unity Roundtable presidential primary, 2012

The primary elections of the Unity Roundtable were held on February 12, 2012, and determined the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) for the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, which were held on October 7, As well as their candidates in the coming regional and municipal elections, to be held in December 2012 and December 2013 respectively.

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Diego Arria

Diego Enrique Arria Salicetti (born 8 October 1938 - Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan politician, diplomat, former Venezuelan Permanent Representative of to the United Nations (1991–1993), and President of the Security Council (March 1992).

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Ecological Movement of Venezuela

Ecological Movement of Venezuela (Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela, MOVEV) is a green political party in Venezuela.

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El Nacional (Caracas)

El Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper and website.

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El Tiempo (Anzoátegui)

El Tiempo is a Venezuelan regional newspaper, headquartered in Puerto la Cruz, in the state of Anzoátegui.

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El Universal (Caracas)

El Universal is a major Venezuelan newspaper, headquartered in Caracas with an average daily circulation of about 150,000.

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Electoral alliance

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.

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Enrique Mendoza

Enrique Mendoza (born 11 August 1945) is a Venezuelan politician.

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Fearless People's Alliance

The Fearless People's Alliance (Alianza Bravo Pueblo) is a political party in Venezuela.

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Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas

The Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas is the organization of Green parties in North America and South America.

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Flag of Venezuela

The current flag of Venezuela was introduced in 2006.

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For Social Democracy

PODEMOS ("We can"; an abbreviation of Por la Democracia Social, "For Social Democracy") is a political party in Venezuela.

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Global Greens

The Global Greens is an international network of Green parties and political movements that works to implement the Global Greens Charter.

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Great Patriotic Pole

The Great Patriotic Pole (Gran Polo Patriótico, GPP) is an electoral alliance of Venezuelan political parties created in 2011 to support the re-election of Hugo Chávez in the 2012 presidential election.

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Green politics

Green politics (also known as ecopolitics) is a political ideology that aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.

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Henri Falcón

Henri Falcón Fuentes (born 17 June 1961) is a Venezuelan politician.

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Henrique Capriles

Henrique Capriles Radonski is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, serving as 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008-17.

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Henrique Salas Feo

Henrique Fernando Salas Feo (born December 14, 1960) is a Venezuelan politician, President of the centre-right party Project Venezuela, and the former governor of Carabobo State.

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Henry Ramos Allup

Henry Lisandro Ramos Allup (born 17 October 1943) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer and former President of the National Assembly who was born in Valencia, Carabobo.

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Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition.

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International Democrat Union

The International Democrat Union (IDU) is an international alliance of centre-right political parties.

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Jesús Torrealba

Jesús Alberto Torrealba Rodríguez (born May 18, 1958 in Caracas), also known as Chúo Torrealba, is a Venezuelan politician and journalist; Secretary-General of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) from September 24, 2014 to February 17, 2017.

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Justice First

The Justice First (Primero Justicia) is a centrist political party in Venezuela.

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Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

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Latin American Parliament

The Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) is a regional, permanent organization composed by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Leopoldo López

Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza (born 29 April 1971) is a Venezuelan politician currently under house arrest.

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Liberal conservatism

Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on ethical and social issues, or a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by liberalism.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

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List of Governors of States of Venezuela

List of elected Governors of Venezuela since 1989.

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Manuel Rosales

Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero (born December 12, 1952, in Santa Bárbara del Zulia) is a Venezuelan educator and politician and was the most prominent opposition candidate in the 2006 presidential election, losing to incumbent Hugo Chávez.

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María Corina Machado

María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967, Machado, María Corina. Es ahora. María Corina. Accessed 25 April 2010. sometimes referred to as MCM) served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela (NA).

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Miranda (state)

Miranda State (Estado Miranda) is one of the 23 states (''estados'') of Venezuela and the second most populous after Zulia State.

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Movement for a Responsible, Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Venezuela

Movement for a Responsible, Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Venezuela (Movimiento por una Venezuela Responsable, Sostenible y Emprendedora, MOVERSE) is a green political party in Venezuela.

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Movement for Socialism (Venezuela)

The Movement toward Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo, or MAS) is a social-democratic political party in Venezuela.

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Movimiento 2D

The Movimiento 2D (2D Movement, M2D or simply 2D) is a Venezuelan opposition movement led by El Nacional editor and proprietor Miguel Henrique Otero.

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National Assembly (Venezuela)

The National Assembly (Asamblea Nacional) is a de jure legislature for Venezuela that was first elected in 2000.

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National Convergence (Venezuela)

The National Convergence (Convergencia Nacional) is a political party in Venezuela.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism refers primarily to the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.

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Pablo Pérez Álvarez

Pablo Martín Pérez Álvarez (August 19, 1969 in Maracaibo) is a Venezuelan lawyer, politician and former Governor of Zulia State.

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Parliamentary immunity

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which members of the parliament or legislature are granted partial immunity from prosecution.

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Popular Will

Popular Will (Voluntad Popular; VP) is a centrist social-democratic political party in Venezuela admitted into the Socialist International in December 2014, founded by former Mayor of Chacao, Leopoldo López, who is its national co-ordinator.

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Progressive Advance

Progressive Advance (Avanzada Progresista) is an anti-Chavista progressive political party in Venezuela, founded by former members of For Social Democracy (PODEMOS), Fatherland for All and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in June 2012.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Project Venezuela

Venezuela Project (in Spanish: Proyecto Venezuela) is a centre-right political party in Venezuela.

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Radical Cause

The Radical Cause (La Causa Radical, LCR), stylized as La Causa Я, is a working-class political party in Venezuela.

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Ramón Guillermo Aveledo

Ramón Guillermo Aveledo (born August 22, 1950) is a Venezuelan politician, academic, businessman, and columnist, and former Executive Secretary of the opposition electoral coalition Coalition for Democratic Unity.

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Red Flag Party

Red Flag Party (in Spanish: Partido Bandera Roja) is a communist party in Venezuela.

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Súmate

Súmate (Spanish for "Join Up") is a Venezuelan volunteer civil association founded in 2002 by María Corina Machado and Alejandro Plaz.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Social liberalism

Social liberalism (also known as modern liberalism or egalitarian liberalism) is a political ideology and a variety of liberalism that endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights while also believing that the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social issues such as poverty, health care and education.

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Socialist International

The Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide association of political parties, which seek to establish democratic socialism.

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Supermajority

A supermajority or supra-majority or a qualified majority, is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of one-half used for majority.

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Union of Latin American Parties

The Union of Latin American Parties (Unión de Partidos Latinoamericanos) is an alliance of centre-right political parties in Latin America and Canada.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United Socialist Party of Venezuela

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a socialist political party in Venezuela which resulted from the fusion of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution led by the late President Hugo Chávez.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).

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Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, 2017

Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on 30 July 2017 to elect the members of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly.

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Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2010

The 2010 parliamentary election in Venezuela took place on 26 September 2010 to elect the 165 deputies to the National Assembly.

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Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015

Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2015 to elect the 164 deputies and three indigenous representatives of the National Assembly.

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Venezuelan presidential election, 2006

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela held presidential elections on 3 December 2006, to choose a president for the six-year term to begin on 10 January 2007.

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Venezuelan presidential election, 2012

The Venezuelan presidential election of 2012 was held on 7 October 2012 (referred by local media as 7-O) to choose a president for the six-year term beginning February 2013.

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Venezuelan presidential election, 2013

Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 14 April 2013 following the death of President Hugo Chávez on 5 March 2013.

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Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004

The Venezuelan recall referendum of 15 August 2004 was a referendum to determine whether Hugo Chávez, then President of Venezuela, should be recalled from office.

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Venezuelanalysis

Venezuelanalysis.com is a left-leaning, pro-Bolivarian Revolution news website.

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Vicencio Scarano Spisso

Vicencio (Enzo) Scarano Spisso (born 1963) is a Venezuelan politician and entrepreneur.

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Zulia

Zulia State (Estado Zulia) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.

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2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt

The Venezuelan coup d'état attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d'état on 11 April 2002 that saw President Hugo Chávez ousted from office for 47 hours before being restored to power.

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Battle New Venezuela, Coalition for Democratic Unity, Democratic Unity (Venezuela), Eagle Unity Roundtable, Mesa de la Unidad Democratica, Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, The Mesa de la Unidad Democrática.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Roundtable

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