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, Guayana, Tobago, Panama (less the Cannal Zone), N.E. Colombia, El Salvador and the Darién Gap. Venezuela propper (OTL Venezuela) has a total area of 916,445 square kilometres (353,841 sq mi) and a land area of 882,050 square kilometres (340,560 sq mi).

Pre-1947
An army coup took place in 1933 removing the OTL dictator and replacing him with the ATL General Aznar, who took 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. A later urban rebellion also occurred in Caracas City during 1947.

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 anti-nuclear protests were reiterated in 1939 and 1951.

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.

1947-1951
1947 saw Venezuela's government not file a patent for it's new ammonia fertilizers, so any one can use it freely in any nation with out copyrights, patents or costs other than (of course) paying their own people to make it. Farming out put increased by 5%- 6% for those who used it.

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.

Nicaraguan Canal which was a joint Chinese and Venezuelan ownership in the ratio 33%:66% (1:2) starts in 1949. China takes the majority of the cost of the project.

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.

A new natural gas fired power station opens in Cuaid de Guyana. Venezuela pulled out of the southern section south Trinidad as an act of good will to the UK. Commercial Peronin flights by Argentina are started to Venezuela.

The Hungarian lands of Kis-Balaton, Keszthely and Fonyod in Hungary were freed later in to in 1951. A joint Venezuelan-Ruthenian strike then freed German held Bohemia by the middle of the year and the Neo-Bolivarian Union came in to existence towards the end of 1951, all be it with a few days of illegal occupation by the USSR in the November of that year.

1952-1956
Venezuela started sponcering and in some cases openly helped sepratists in Cape Verde, Portugese Guinea, Cabinda and São Tomé and Príncipe in from 1952 to 1954, as part of the fight against the then racist Porugese goverment.

The nation then tryed to enstall Greek Colonel Ionnas Partrias Stakixs as dictator of the Greek mainland in 1952, but was forced to back down due to Soviet presure, untill 1954.

The Mexican railway project began that year in the Cuban and Mayan Republic’s sectors of Mexico. Full race and gender equality was introduced in Greater Venezuela.

As a result of the La Violencia getting noticaby worse, Venezuela invaded Colombia and started to root out the drug lords and leftist social detrituse (the people who would create the OTL FARC movement) in the 1952-54 Narco-war with Colombia.

Venezuela thought stabilaty could be brought to the remnant of Saudi Arabia through stron leadership. This was dne via the Saudi Arabian revolt of 1953.

Free Bohemia was given full indipendence under the rule of the Christian democrat leader Igor Klauze. Venezuela denonced the illigal state of Vietnam by the middel of the year and called the Viet Minh rebelss "lawless hooligans".

Urban student riots hit- El Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas (Metropolitan District of Caracas) and hooligans riot in the Distrito Capital (the capital city proper) and in the Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo municipalities in Miranda State. The General Umberto Aznar University of engineering was opened that day, but nearly burnt down by angry teenagers and trades unionists. The riots were slowly fought back with teargas, water cannons and rubber-bullets.

Hindustan's frendly offer to help crush the Colombian rebels got out of head and was abruptly canceled after they tryed to attack frendly feindly Peru in 1954, whch then joined Venezuela's block (It had been planning to fot the last 5 or so years any way).

In the August of that year VOIA agents hijacked the planned Paraguayan coup of 1954 and replace the OTL General Strossnder with the ATL Venisuelan yes-man Sargent Juan Luigi Lorennzo.

Like-minded Bolivia got the political hints and joined the Bolivarian Union in mid 1954.

Ba'athist/Nasserite General Mohamed Yasser Hussein of Dammam city state is appointed PM of Venezuelan held Central Arabia and the minor royal Sheikh Abdu Ali bin-Falika bin Saud of Riyadh is declaimed king Emir until elections can be arranged.

Venezuela sendst peace keepers to Harper, Liberia. The British Pitcairn Island (near Tahiti) is annexed as the 64 locals surrender to a Venezuelan fishing boat with a 0.50 machine gun, 2 rifles and a pistol on board it.

Due to obviouse Geo-political cercamstances, President Sadeq Ali Reza Abdul Rahimi of the long unreconised state of Free Kurdistan jons forces with Venezuela rater than Hindustan or the British, or the USSR. Promises of Turkish teritory and a protectorate were used to curry favor with the Kurds. Kurdestan expands westward towards the end of the year. A direct transit route from Persia to Turkey is created. Later Turkey's West coast would do like wise and form the state of Ismire after Venezuelan peace keeper ended a bitter 6 month war with Hindustan. The Soviet Union compained and ivaded Kurdestan a few weeks later in a shoe of strength against Venezuela.

1954 saw the colapse of the N.U.M.A. and the capture of Norway's Antarctic teritories, with variouse missions claming neglected sub-Arctic islands during 1955.

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.

Natural resources
Timber, fruit and coffee.

Manufactured goods
T.V. sets, radios, packaging, processed food, cardboard, corrugated iron, ash-felt, bricks, cement, clothes, cloth, furniture and hand tools.

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. ===Universities === The General Umberto Aznar University of engineering was opened in 1953.

Ethnic groups
(to be updated)

The enviroment
Venezuela lies within the Neotropic ecozone; large portions of the country were originally covered by moist broadleaf forests. One of seventeen megadiverse countries and among the top twenty countries in terms of endemism, some 38% of the over 21,000 plant species are unique to the country; 23% of reptilian and 50% of amphibian species are also endemic.

Biodiversity
Venezuela hosts significant biodiversity across habitats ranging from xeric scrublands in the extreme northwest to coastal mangrove forests in the northeast. Its cloud forests and lowlandrainforests are particularly rich, for example hosting over 25,000 species of orchids. These include the flor de mayo orchid (Cattleya mossiae), the national flower.

Nature reserves
A Venezuelan nature reserve is opened in the Sierra Pacaraima mountains on the border with Brazil in 1949 and the southermn most 33% of Amazonas province in 1950.

Cinemas
4 major drive-in cinemas were opened in the late 1940's. 2 were in Caracas, 1 was in Ciudad Bolívar, and a nother was in Cuaid de Guyana.

Military
(Being updated)

Air force

 * 1) 3 CR.32 comparable fighters.
 * 2) 15 Rogožarski IK-3 fighter.
 * 3) 11 'Pena de muerte concepción' (death penalty idea) class bombers.
 * 4) 10 Stinson Reliant photographic reconnaissance plain
 * 5) 10 Stinson Reliant general utility plain
 * 6) 7 Polish PZL P.11 fighter aircraft
 * 7) 6 Henkel He 162 Fighters
 * 8) 2 Polish PWS-10 fighter
 * 9) 4 PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
 * 10) 4 Lublin R-XX torpedo bomber
 * 11) 22 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) 16 MiG 15 comparable fighters,
 * 15) 7 Mil-2 comparable helicopters,
 * 16) 2 PZL.56 Kania equivalent fighters
 * 17) 12 Yak 1 fighter copies
 * 18) 5 Avro Lancaster derived bomber
 * 19) 12 LWD Junak trainer equivelent aircraft
 * 20) 11Yakovlev Yak-12 light multirole STOL equivelent aircraft
 * 21) 10 F-6 Hinds
 * 22) 6 Espionage derived copy Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
 * 23) 1 Espionage derived copy Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
 * 24) 2 Mil Mi-1 equivalent helicopters
 * 25) 2 Sikorsky H-5 equivalent helicopters

Navy

 * 1) 6 '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) 4 + 2 in construction) ex-Yugoslav Dreadnought ship (comparable with Nevada-class Battleship).
 * 5) 16 'Bolivar class' light gunboats
 * 6) 2 MAC ship that is a direct espionage gained copy of HMS Activity (D94)
 * 7) 14 Fairy Swordfish comparable aircraft
 * 8) 5 Dornier Do 24 comparable reconnaissance flying boats
 * 9) 3 Dornier Do 24 comparable air-sea rescue flying boat
 * 10) 3 Mil-2 comparable helicopters
 * 11) 1 HMAS Albatross equivalent seaplane tender
 * 12) 1 HMS Furious equivalent aircraft carrier
 * 13) 4 Sikorsky H-5 helicopters
 * 14) 2 Lublin R-XX torpedo bombers
 * 15)  2 PZL.56 Kania equivalent fighters
 * 16)  1 A ship comparable to the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya + 2 Japanese mad Maurice Farman seaplanes of 1914

Army

 * 1) 60 Opel Blitz trucks
 * 2) 1 British Mk1 Lozinge tank
 * 3) 1 British Mk4 Whippet tank
 * 4) 1 Vikkers 6-tone tank
 * 5) 4 Fiat M11/39 tanks
 * 6) 5 Panzer II tanks
 * 7) 16 Panzer III copped tanks
 * 8) 5 Polish 7TP tanks
 * 9) 5 Serman comparible tanks
 * 10) 46 M1928 Christie prototype design tanks
 * 11) 5 Polish Ciągnik Siedmiotonowy Polski "7-tonnes Polish Tractor"
 * 12) 2 Czechoslovak heavy 220 mm wz.32 Škoda mortars,
 * 13) 5 Tiger I copied tank
 * 14) 2 Dornier Do 24 comparable reconnaissance flying boats
 * 15) 4 KV-1 tank equivelents
 * 16) 1 PWS-21 passenger plane
 * 17) 10 Búrke mobile rocket launcher equivalent
 * 18) 2 Sikorsky H-5 equivalent helicopters

Missile command

 * 1) 8 conventional high exsplosive V2 comparable rockets
 * 2) 1 Polish PZL P.11 fighter aircraft
 * 3) 2 M1928 Christie prototype design tanks

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 fighters
 * 1 PZL.23 Karaś light bomber
 * 1 PWS-21 passenger plane
 * 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. 2 Sikorsky H-5 equivalent helicopters were then added to it's list in 1953, for work in the most remot parts of the Amazonas region.

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 auntrinpanures 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 fleet in 1950, 1951 and 1952.

A Rodriguez type passenger plane started regular flight from Caracas to Bones Ares via Cuaidad de Guyana, Cuidad Bolivar, Reo De-Janero and Montevideo in mid-1951. With this, the state owned airline “Aero Venezuela” is thus born.

2 deHavaland Commit comparable aircraft would join the "Aero Venezuela" fleet in 1952 and would run regular flights to and from Panama City via Aruba. These wre joined in 1953 by 2 Boeing 377 comparible civil air liners flying from Cuaidad de Guyana to Panama City via Caracas, Aruba and Bogata. Aero Venezuela then went on to use the Boeing 377 equivalent airliner to set up an air route from Caracas to Lima Via Quito later that year. They would also gain 2 LWD Junak equivalent trainer aircraft for there own corporate use rather than rely on the armed forces for future piolet training.

Space travel.
A modifyed PGM-17 Thor missile coppy was set up north of Cuidad Bolivar, and with this the Venezuela Space Agency (V.S.A.) was born in 1955.

Coast guard
2 Dornier Do 24 comparable air-sea rescue flying boats and a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter work 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 presumptive)
 * 5) Diago Aznar  (14 year old son of  Oscar, hire aparrent after age 21)

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. Brazil joined in 1952.

The Neo-Bolivarian Union waas created out of Panama, El Salvador, eastern Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana Esequiba merging in to a united federation of autonomies states (like the OTL USA and it's states) in in 1951, which came in to force on January 1 1953.

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

Population (1950)- 3,550,000.

Location- Bohemia.

Capital- Prague

Free Guiné (client)


Population (1950 est,)- 750,000

Location- West Africa.

Capital- Bissau.

Bouvet and Lars Island, et al's flag (dependency)
Population (1955 est,)- 42 Norwegen sciantists, 12 Venezuelans and 10,000 penguins.

Location- Antarctica.

Capital- Bouvet island's Norwegen weather station.

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. A cricket team was founded in 1951.

Also see
Axis vs Allies Revised national flags