Venezuelan Republic (Axis vs Allies)

Venezuela, is a tropical, oil rich, Hispanic, jungle country on the northern coast of South America.

Geography
Our timeline Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, western and central Nicaragua and the Darién Gap.

History
An army coup took place in 1933 removing the OTL dictator and replacing him with the ATL General Aznar, who takes over with the aim of becoming a local, regional and Latino strong man.

Venezuela faced a rebellion by counter revolutionary forces in many of its cities towards the middle of 1934. The army’s attention turned inwards and focused on national stability and the regime's survival. The leftist rebellion was thankfully quashed after 2 months. The El Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas and Ciudad Bolívar were to remain under martial law for another year due to persistent resistance by some local rebel cells.

The new Junta's first foray in to Venezuela-USA affairs was with the signing of a 40 year long oil trade agreement in 1935. Venezuelan Over-seas Intelligence Agency (V.O.I.A.) is formed in 1935 to do espionage and special opps work, it was one of the first organisations of this kind in the world.

Venezuela then went on to condemn nuclear and chemical warfare as early as 1937, and then joined the NPT in 1946.

The Venezuelan suggested in 1945 that Poland could be split on an ethno-Linguistic line. Hungary and Czechoslovakia had go neutral. Was also Germany to back off from Czech Prague, but keeps the German speaking Sudetenland as a gesture of good will.



In 1946, Venezuela suggested split Mexico temporally and hold elections and reunite it as an independent state in 1947 or 1948.

Venezuela invited the Pontiff to Caracas, Maturín and Angle falls to help spread the Catholic faith further and inspire the rural poor with his Papal visit in or shortly after 1946, but he never came.

Venezuela proposed during 1948, the building a new railway linking the Mexican cities of Cancun, Tuxtla Gutiérrez via San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico City, Guatemala City, Acapulco, El Paso (Texas), Tecoman, Juarez, Mazatalan, and Villahermosa (Tobasco) in one united network rail network that the locals can enjoy and flourish under. Both Cuba, Japan, The UK, Germany, Italy, China, Hindustan and the USA are invited to set a join board for the joint run line. Venezuela suggested it so they have a veto and the fledgling Mayan Republic is on the board.

Venezuela recognised the new Spanish Republic in early 1949. Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN had also raised concerns that the Security Council was to anti-Hispanic, because none of the 4 permanent members were of Hispanic origin by late 1949. this was all part of the Bolivarian plan to help rectify the injustices history had made towards the Hispanic cause.

In 1950, Venezuela a 200 strong peace keeping force Colombia’s La Guajira Department due to the La Violencia (Spanish for- The Violence), a period of civil conflict in the Colombian countryside between supporters of the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a conflict which took place roughly from 1948 to 1958 (sources vary on the exact dates). The Venezuelan troops long stationed in the lawless Darién Gap as a security mesusure against a long passed Japanese invasion of Panamá then annex it to Venezuela. Latin American Economic and Monetary Union was founded later that year. VOIA agents, along with some local rebels, ambushed both Hinricht Himmler and Martin Bormann in their car to the south of Berlin, killing Bormann. Later special opps teams liberated the villages Balatonberény and Balatonszentgyörgy, next to Lake Balaton, from Nazi rule during 1950. The President flew to the Vatican to seek an audience with the Pope in the Holy See later that year. This year also saw a new oil fuelled power station and several public air raid shelters are constructed in Caracas during 1950 and 1951.

Venezuela had gone to the UN in an attempt to end the UK's illegal occupation of Guayana Esequiba peacefully in 1950, but then went on to annex it along with the south of Trinidad island in early 1951.

The Hungarian lands of Kis-Balaton, Keszthely and Fonyod in Hungary were freed later in to in 1951.

Mineral resources
Oil (started in 1910), coal (started in 1900), natural gas (started in 1930), oil shale, sand, bauxite, iron ore, low grade gold and natural bitumen.

General info.
About 85% ofthe population live in the growing urban areas in northern Venezuela and about 73% live less than 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the coastline.

literacy
A national literacy campaign was launched in 1935. Several new schools open in the urban slums in 1945. A rural literacy campaign was begun and several new schools also open in the rural provinces during 1946. Male Literacy rates are 55% and Female literacy rates are 33% by 1949.

Nature reserves
A Venezuelan nature reserve is opened in the Sierra Pacaraima mountains on the border with Brazil in 1949.

Air force

 * 1) 3 CR.32 comparable fighters.
 * 2) 6 Rogožarski IK-3 fighter.
 * 3) 9 'Pena de muerte concepción' (death penalty idea) class bombers.
 * 4) 10 Stinson Reliant photographic reconnaissance plain
 * 5) 10 Stinson Reliant general utility plain
 * 6) 8 Polish PZL P.11 fighter aircraft
 * 7) 2 Henkel He 162 Fighters
 * 8) 2 Polish PWS-10 fighter
 * 9) 2 PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
 * 10) 1 Lublin R-XX torpedo bomber
 * 11) 8 Fairy Swordfish comparable aircraft
 * 12) 2 Dornier Do 24 comparable reconnaissance flying boats
 * 13) 2 Dornier Do 24 comparable air-sea rescue flying boats
 * 14) 2 MiG 15 comparable fighters,
 * 15) 3 Mil-2 comparable helicopters,

Navy

 * 1) 4 'Conquistador class' frigates (comparable to the USS Abilene (PF-58)).
 * 2) 6 'Leticia class' support vessels akin to the USS Aquarius (AKA-16) Andromeda-class attack cargo ships.
 * 3) 5 Chávez class frigates.
 * 4) 2 ex-Yugoslav Dreadnought ship (comparable with Nevada-class Battleship).
 * 5) 13 'Bolivar class' light gunboats
 * 6)  A MAC ship that is a direct espionage gained copy of HMS Activity (D94)
 * 7)  14 Fairy Swordfish comparable aircraft
 * 8)  2 Dornier Do 24 comparable reconnaissance flying boats
 * 9)  1 Dornier Do 24 comparable air-sea rescue flying boat

Army

 * 1) 2 Fiat M11/39 tanks
 * 2) 7 Panzer II tanks
 * 3) 3 Panzer III copped tanks
 * 4) 5 Polish 7TP tanks
 * 5) 7 Serman comparible tanks
 * 6) 42 M1928 Christie prototype design tanks
 * 7) 5 Polish Ciągnik Siedmiotonowy Polski "7-tonnes Polish Tractor"
 * 8) 2 Czechoslovak heavy 220 mm wz.32 Škoda mortars,
 * 9) 3 Tiger I copied tank
 * 10) 2 Dornier Do 24 comparable reconnaissance flying boats

Missile command

 * 1) 8 conventional high exsplosive V2 comparable rockets

VOIA
The Venezuelan Over-seas Intelligence Agency (V.O.I.A.) is formed in 1935 to do espionarge and special opps work.
 * 2 Polish PWS-10 fighter
 * 1 PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
 * CIA / KGB / MI5 / OSS /SOE / SIS/ James Bond secret agent stuff, etc,

Air mail
Venezuela opened its national air mail service in 1950, with 3 Stinson Reliant aircraft.

Airlines
2 ‘Rodriguez type’ airliners, which is a copy of Poland's PWS-21 have done state sponsored flights to the neighbouring states since the early 1940's, but may autrinpnures have set up local services with a few small passenger, freight and/or mail aircraft since 1930.

A Martin M-130 air liner joined the state fleat in 1950 and 1951.

Coast guard
A Dornier Do 24 comparable air-sea rescue flying boat works for the national coast guard sevice.

Politics
The national policy is of a right-wing, pro-Latin and nationalistic type. The only election so far were in. 1939 elections fixed so General Umberto Aznar won with a majoraty of 99% over 1% on a turn out of 106% (~6% of the votes were forged).

Famous women
Lt. Gen. Oscar Aznar's sweet Yekuana Indian wife Maria, who was not born with a second name, since her clan had yet to understand what family names were.

List of heads of state

 * 1) (OTL) Juan Vicente Gómez 1908-1933.
 * 2) General Umberto Aznar 1933-1951.
 * 3) Lieutenant General Oscar Aznar 1951- to date.
 * 4) Col. Juan Vincent Aznar (second son, hire apparent)

Diplomacy
The Latin American Economic and Monetary Union (LAEMU) was founded in mid 1951 by the states of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Chile.

The Venezuelan government then set up the League of Catholic Nations later in the year as a mutual religious, cultural, trade and defence pact. The founding menbers were Venezuela, Colombia, Italy and Argentina.

The Mayan Republic (client)
Population (1951)- 1,720,000.

Location- S. W. Mexico.

Capital- Cancun.

Ruthenia-Nyíregyháza (client)
Capital-Kust.

Trebisov and Košice (merged with Ruthenia)
Poulation (1948)- Trebisov- 40,000 and Košice 125,000.

Location- S.E. Slovakia.

Capital- Košice

Nyíregyháza (merged with Ruthenia)
Poulation (1948)- 45,000 in Nyíregyháza and 47,500 in Nyíregyháza district, et al.

Location- eastern Hungary.

Capital- Nyíregyháza

Ruthenia (client)
Poulation (1948)- 705,000.

Location- Ruthenia.

Capital- Kust

Mt Tarnica, et al (merged with Ruthenia)
Population (1948)- 42.

Location- S.E. Poland.

Capital- A shepard's village on Mt Tarnica.

Oberlichtenau-Niederlichtenau (puppet)
Population (1950)-1,950 Oberlichtenau-Niederlichtenau and 4,400 Pulsnitz

Location- Eastern Germany.

Capital- Oberlichtenau

The free state of Lake Balaton (Semi-client, Indipendece ~1954)
Capital- Balatonberény

Balatonszentgyörgy-Balatonberény (merged in to The free state of Keszthely)
Population (1950)-1,500 Balatonszentgyörgy-Balatonberény and 3,000 Hévíz

Location- western Hungary.

Capital- Balatonberény

The Free state of Keszthely, Fonyód and the Kis-Balaton wetlands (Semi-client)
(Genuin free state, will go nietal Grey after 3 years and a poll.)

Population (1950)- 16,100.

Location- western Hungary.

Capital- Balatonberény

Free Bohemian
(Genuin free state, will go nietal Grey after 3 years and a poll.)

Population (1950)- 3,550,000.

Location- Bohemia.

Capital- Prague

Sports.
The national football and Rugby teams were formed in late Victorian times and Venezuela went on to set up a Formula 1 (F-1 raceing) team in 1950.