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Venezuela  

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  • Venezuela—“Little Venice,” as Amerigo Vespucci named it—was Christopher Columbus's first landfall on the South American continent. The birthplace of the “Liberator,” Simón Bolívar Palacios, Venezuela has had twenty-six constitutions since becoming independent in 1811. [Source: Constitutions of the World; Venezuela]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Venezuela

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