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Democratic Action (Venezuela), the Glossary

Democratic Action (Acción Democrática, AD) is a Venezuelan social democratic and centre-left political party established in 1941.^[1]

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1941 establishments in Venezuela
Centre-left parties in South America
Intervened political parties in Venezuela
Political parties established in 1941
Political parties in Venezuela
Social democratic parties in Venezuela

Andrés Eloy Blanco

Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño (6 August 1896 – 21 May 1955) was a noted Venezuelan poet and politician.

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Boycott

A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).

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Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician who served as the 47th and 50th president of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism.

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Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela

The Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV, English: Confederation of Workers of Venezuela) is a federation of labor unions in Venezuela.

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Copei

COPEI, also referred to as the Social Christian Party (Partido Socialcristiano) or Green Party (Partido Verde), is a Christian democratic party in Venezuela. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and Copei are Intervened political parties in Venezuela and political parties in Venezuela.

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COPPPAL

The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Conférence permanente des partis politiques d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes; Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe, COPPPAL) is an international organization of political parties in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Democratic Alliance (Venezuela)

The Democratic Alliance (Alianza Democrática, AD) was a political coalition created to face the government of Nicolás Maduro in the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election and grouped in the National Assembly. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and Democratic Alliance (Venezuela) are Intervened political parties in Venezuela.

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Democratic Republican Union

The Democratic Republican Union (Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and Democratic Republican Union are political parties in Venezuela.

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Democratic Unity Roundtable

The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) was 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 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election.

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Doña Bárbara

Doña Bárbara (Lady Bárbara) is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929.

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El Nacional (Venezuela)

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 Trienio Adeco

El Trienio Adeco was a three-year period in Venezuelan history, from 1945 to 1948, under the government of the popular party Democratic Action (Acción Democratica, its adherents adecos).

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Fernando Peñalver

Fernando Peñalver (1765–1837), was a Venezuelan independence leader and hero of the Venezuelan War of Independence.

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Gonzalo Barrios (politician)

Gonzalo Barrios Bustillos (10 January 1902 – 30 May 1993), was a Venezuelan politician.

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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 and military officer who served as the 47th president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.

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Humorist

A humorist is an intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking.

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Interventions of political parties in Venezuela

Several interventions of political parties in Venezuela have occurred during Nicolás Maduro's government. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and interventions of political parties in Venezuela are Intervened political parties in Venezuela.

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Isaías Medina Angarita

Isaías Medina Angarita (6 July 1897 – 15 September 1953) was a Venezuelan military and political leader, the president of Venezuela from 1941 until 1945, during World War II.

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Jaime Lusinchi

Jaime Ramón Lusinchi (27 May 1924 – 21 May 2014) was the president of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989.

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José Bernabé Gutiérrez

José Bernabé Gutiérrez Parra (born December 21, 1952) is a Venezuelan politician who served as Governor of Amazonas from 1996 to 2001, and Senator representing Amazonas from 1994 and 1996.

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Juan Oropeza

Juan Oropeza Riera (24 April 1906 – 29 November 1971) was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, writer, educator and political scientist.

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Left-wing nationalism

Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism is a form of nationalism which is based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, and left-wing political positions such as social equality.

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List of political parties in Venezuela

This article lists political parties in Venezuela. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and list of political parties in Venezuela are political parties in Venezuela.

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List of Venezuela governors

Governors in Venezuela are in charge of the government and administration of each state.

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Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa

Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa (14 March 1902 – 22 April 1993), was a Venezuelan politician.

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Marcos Pérez Jiménez

Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from 1950 to 1952 and as president from 1952 to 1958.

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Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas

Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (8 July 1922 – 22 October 2003), was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, presidential candidate in 1968 and 1973.

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Military dictatorship in Venezuela

A military dictatorship ruled Venezuela for ten years, from 1948 to 1958.

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National Assembly (Venezuela)

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

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National Convergence

The National Convergence (Convergencia Nacional) is a political party in Venezuela. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and National Convergence are political parties in Venezuela.

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Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 53rd President of Venezuela since 2013.

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People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela)

The People's Electoral Movement (Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo, MEP) was a left-wing political party in Venezuela, founded in 1967 by Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa. Democratic Action (Venezuela) and People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela) are Intervened political parties in Venezuela and left-wing nationalist parties.

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Political party

A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.

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President of Venezuela

The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.

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Primary election

Party primaries or primary elections are elections in which a political party selects a candidate for an upcoming general election.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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Puntofijo Pact

The Puntofijo Pact (or Punto Fijo Pact) was a formal arrangement arrived at between representatives of Venezuela's three main political parties in 1958, Acción Democrática (AD), COPEI (Social Christian Party), and Unión Republicana Democrática (URD), for the acceptance of the 1958 presidential elections and the preservation of the new democratic system.

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Raúl Leoni

Raúl Leoni Otero (26 April 1905 – 5 July 1972) was the president of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969.

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Rafael Caldera

Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez (24 January 1916 – 24 December 2009), was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 41st and 46th president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest serving democratically elected politician to govern the country in the twentieth century.

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Ramón José Velásquez

Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (28 November 1916 – 24 June 2014) was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer.

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Rómulo Betancourt

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Acción Democrática, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.

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Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

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Reformism

Reformism is a trend advocating the reform of an existing system or institution – often a political or religious establishment – as opposed to its abolition and replacement via revolution.

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Republic of Venezuela

The Republic of Venezuela was a democratic republic first established in 1953, and replaced in 1999 by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

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Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela)

The Revolutionary Left Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR) was a left-wing Marxist political party in Venezuela.

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Secretary (title)

Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization.

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Senate of Venezuela

The Senate of Venezuela was the upper house of Venezuela's legislature under its 1961 constitution.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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The Socialist International (SI) is a political international or worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism, consisting mostly of social democratic political parties and labour organisations.

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Supermajority

A supermajority (also called supra-majority, supramajority, qualified majority, or special majority) is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Two-party system

A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape.

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Unitary Platform

The Democratic Unitary Platform (Plataforma Unitaria Democrática; PUD), or just the Unitary Platform (Plataforma Unitaria; PU), is a Venezuelan opposition political alliance made up of civil society, trade unions, retired military personnel, political parties, and deputies of the 2016–2021 National Assembly.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).

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1945 Venezuelan coup d'état

The 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 18 October 1945, when the president Isaías Medina Angarita was overthrown by a combination of a military rebellion and a popular movement led by Democratic Action.

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1947 Venezuelan general election

General elections were held in Venezuela on 14 December 1947.

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1948 Venezuelan coup d'état

The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947 Venezuelan general election (generally believed to be the country's first honest election) and had taken office in February 1948.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Action_(Venezuela)

Also known as Acción Democrática, Acción Democrática (Venezuela), National Democratic Party (Venezuela), Partido Democrático Nacional.

Democratic Action (Venezuela), the Glossary

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See also

1941 establishments in Venezuela

Centre-left parties in South America

Intervened political parties in Venezuela

Political parties established in 1941

Political parties in Venezuela

References