Treaty of Coche brings the Federal War toward formal closure

The 1856 law formally recognized as national debt the assessed value of people freed under the 1854 abolition law and its regulations. It set out claim review, registration, interest, and payment...

A presidential decree supplemented the May law recognizing abolition claims as public debt. It created procedures to classify and register former owners’ claims, exchange abolition certificates,...

The National Convention repealed a provision of the 1856 abolition-debt law that imposed a national tax on retail and wholesale sales of wine, spirits, tobacco, and related products. The act said...

Tirso Salaverría and a small group of federalists seized the Coro barracks, took weapons, and proclaimed the Federation, beginning the conflict known as the Federal War. Later Venezuelan reference...

Following the seizure of Coro and proclamation of the Federation, federal insurgents constituted a provisional government in the province. Its published program included freedom of worship, press, and...

The National Assembly unanimously designated 10 May as Día Nacional de la Afrovenezolanidad. The resolution called for public commemoration of José Leonardo Chirino’s 1795 uprising and urged education...

As Venezuela’s 2011 population census began, public reporting described a new option for residents to identify as Afro-descendant. The category made Afro-descendant identity countable in a national...

Venezuela published its Organic Law Against Racial Discrimination in Official Gazette No. 39,823. The law established a state framework addressing discrimination based on race and ethnicity, in a...