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day the country was on its own
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Venezuela secedes from Gran Colombia.
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Ruler Antonio Guzman Blanco attracts foreign investment, modernises infrastructure and develops agriculture and education.
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Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez governs at time when Venezuela becomes world's largest oil exporter.
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Coup establishes civilian government after decades of military rule.
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President Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela's first democratically-elected leader, overthrown within eight months in military coup led by Marcos Perez Jimenez.
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Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal ousts Marcos Perez Jimenez; leftist Romulo Betancourt of the Democratic Action Party (AD) wins presidential election.
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Venezuela benefits from oil boom and its currency peaks against the US dollar; oil and steel industries nationalised.
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Carlos Andres Perez (AD) elected president amid economic depression
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Colonel Hugo Chavez and supporters make two coup attempts. Some 120 people killed in suppression of coups, Col Chavez jailed for two years before being pardoned.
