Background: Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms. Democratically elected governments have held sway since 1959. Current concerns include: an embattled president, a divided military, drug-related conflicts along the Colombian border, increasing internal drug consumption, overdependence on the petroleum industry with its price fluctuations, and irresponsible mining operations that are endangering the rain forest and indigenous peoples.
May 11th 2008South America » Venezuela » Insular » Los Roques Contrariamente a lo que la mayoría de los viajeros hace , estaría dispuesto a ir a conocer el archipiélago del Caribe Los Roques de una manera poco inusual y no muy recomendada por la mayoría de las p ... 13 photos[full story]
April 1st 2008South America » Venezuela » Insular » Isla Margarita From the great city of Quito we flew on March 20th through Bogota, without getting abducted by anyone interesting, and landed in Caracas, the crime capital of the world according to some. Managed to g ... 40 photos[full story]
April 18th 2008South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas Arrived in Caracas yesterday afternoon and was almost instantanously overjoyed by the ensuing heat. My plane journey was anything but uneventful! Firstly when I arrived at the airport I checked in and ... [full story]
November 2nd 2007South America » Venezuela So that was it for Brazil and we booked a 15 hour bus journey to Santa Elena, Venezuela which turned out to be 18! We left sweating our backs out in the bus station and then got on a freezing air con ... [full story]
March 18th 2008South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas So, the next leg of the journey begins, bright and early with a departure from Rio and a sad goodbye to Matt, with several fresh faces on the truck, which itself is different along with our new driver ... [full story]
March 28th 2008South America » Venezuela » Capital » Caracas
Tras cruzar la frontera brasileiro-venezolna, llegamos a Santa Helena. Como comentamos en el ultimo post, Aimar se fue con unos amigos a ver el Salto del Angel. Para sus seguidores, Aimar esta to ... 14 photos[full story]
January 27th 2008South America » Venezuela After leaving Buenos Aires, There was definitely a dark cloud a-hanging. A stupid amount of time was spent travelling to get to Caracas. But, once I got there; as the planes wheels hit the tarmac my i ... 8 photos[full story]
February 7th 2008South America » Venezuela We landed late in Caracas airport so chose to stay somewhere nearby.
The following day we braved the metro in Caracas to get to the bus station. It was spotless. One of the cleanest and most modern I ... 42 photos[full story]
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