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 1934 removing the OTL military 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 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’s ambassador to the UN had also raised concerns that the UN Security Council was to anti-Hispanic, because none of the 4 permanent members were of Hispanic origin in 1949.

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 Borman in their car to the south of Berlin, killing Bormann. Later special opps teams liberated the villages Balatonberény and Balatonszentgyörgy, neex to Lake Balaton, from Nazi rule during 1950. This year also saw a new oil fuelled power station and several public air raid shelters are constructed in Caracas during 1950.

Kis-Balaton, Keszthely and Fonyod in Hungaryv were freed 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) 4 Rogožarski IK-3 fighter.
 * 3) 6 '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) 1 PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
 * 10) 1 Lublin R-XX torpedo bomber

Navy

 * 1) 2 'Conquistador class' frigates (comparable to the USS Abilene (PF-58)).
 * 2) 3 '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) 3 'Bolivar class' light gunboats

Army

 * 1) 2 Fiat M11/39 tanks
 * 2) 3 Panzer II tanks
 * 3) 5 Polish 7TP tanks
 * 4) 3 Serman comparible tanks
 * 5) 42 M1928 Christie prototype design tanks
 * 6) 5 Polish Ciągnik Siedmiotonowy Polski "7-tonnes Polish Tractor"
 * 7) 2 Czechoslovak heavy 220 mm wz.32 Škoda mortars,

VOIA
The Venezuelan Over-seas Intelligence Agency (V.O.I.A.) is formed in 1935 to doo espionarge and special opps work.

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 do 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.

Politics
The national policy is of a right-wing, pro-Latin and nationalistic type.

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 1934-1951.
 * 3) Lieutenant General Oscar Aznar 1951- to date.

Diplomacy
The Latin American Economic and Monetary Union (LAEMU) was founded in 1950 by the states of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and British Guyana joined in 1950.

The Venezuelan government then set up the League of Catholic Nations. Cuba, Italy, France, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, Spain, Ireland and the Holy See were invited to join the mutual religious, cultural, trade and defence pact.

The Mayan Republic (client)
Population in tranche 1(1948)- 1,550,000.

Population in tranche 2 (1950)- 130,000.

Location- S. W. Mexico.

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

Location- S.E. Slovakia.

Nyíregyháza (merged with Ruthenia)
Poulation (1948)- 45,000 Location- eastern Hungary.

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

Location- Ruthenia.

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

Location- S.E. Poland.

Oberlichtenau-Niederlichtenau (puppet)


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

Location- Eastern Germany.

Balatonszentgyörgy-Balatonberény (puppet)


Population (1950)-1,500 Balatonszentgyörgy-Balatonberény and 3,000 Hévíz

Location- western Hungary.

The free state of Keszthely, Fonyód and the Kis-Balaton wetlands


Population (1950)- 16,100.

Location- western Hungary.