| After travelling out from the capital city, Caracas, they prepared to enter the humid tropical rainforests that cover the country. |
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| Virginia, first performed in Caracas, is the first opera composed by a native Venezuelan. |
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| In 1728 Spain founded the Caracas Company to combat this contraband and to control exports to Spain from the region. |
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| One sector, led by the Ministry of Education and the Mayor of Caracas, called for a popular insurrection to defend the government. |
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| The former president was lying in state behind glass in a half-open coffin in the Caracas military academy. |
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| In Caracas, the elected president is a Castroite who earlier attempted a beer-hall putsch and is busily immiserating his middle class. |
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| The consumption of cacao in New Spain remained an important market throughout the colonial period, supplied largely by the Guayas and Caracas plantations. |
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| Indeed, the spirit of the Caracas Declaration has always been the basis of our work as a development cooperation institution. |
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| When I arrived in Caracas in November, I had been away for nearly four years, and the city looked grimier and more beat up than ever. |
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| Blogging the Revolution, the book by the authors of the Caracas Chronicles blog, was reviewed in David's book club yesterday. |
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| Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still. |
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| Julio Cesar Rosas owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas. |
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| Caracas was plunged into darkness in the middle of a televised speech by President Nicolas Maduro. |
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| The companies over-complied and by 2001 there were 1,300 phone booths in Caracas alone, with an average of 8 phones each, located in the most populated barrios. |
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| The Caracas cacao trade to Europe in the early eighteenth century was an Atlantic enterprise, involving a complex web of legal and illegal intercolonial relationships. |
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| Outside of Caracas, however, it is an open secret that Venezuela's diamonds are still being smuggled out of the country daily. |
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| Take a ride down the metro line that runs southwestward from the centre of Caracas, and it is easy to see why. |
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| This month Mr Chávez crudely disempowered the newly elected opposition mayor of Caracas, the capital. |
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| El Hatillo is becoming engulfed by Caracas but maintains its 16th-century charm. |
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| Ceballos was moved from Ramo Verde, which is outside the capital, Caracas, to another jail in the state of Guarico, on Saturday. |
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| Venezuela's bolívar is pegged to the dollar, which explains why Caracas is one of the ten priciest cities. |
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| Today, however, he is illegally imprisoned in a Caracas jail following two years of detention with no coherent case being made against him. |
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| From what I read in the papers, I think the smart money is finding Calgary to be a lot more prudent an investment than Caracas. |
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| The Dutch bought contraband cacao from Caracas producers, and shipped it to Amsterdam, which soon became the main supplier of cacao to Europe, including Spain itself. |
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| During this year the experience is being replicated also in Caracas, Venezuela. |
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| We met in Caracas and I studied some Chopin at her masterclasses. |
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| The city of Caracas is unfortunately highly obscured astrally by different groups operating with negative energies. |
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| He also intends to go on crushing freedom of expression by closing down the media, as he has done with Radio Caracas Televisión. |
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| Finally, as to the location of the Institute, the Director-General feels that it should remain in Caracas, Venezuela. |
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| Straight away, she wrote a song with Frederic Caracas and Liso which earned her a contract with Sonodisc records. |
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| The family moved to Caracas and the talented youngster played timpani with the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra. |
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| Born in Los Angeles, and raised there and in Caracas, Venezuela, she spent her undergraduate years at the University of California, Berkeley, as a regular standee at the San Francisco Opera. |
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| The constitution said these lands should all be demarcated by 2002 but this task has barely begun. Last August four Yukpa leaders, wearing red warpaint and carrying bows and arrows, held a press conference in Caracas. |
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| In Buenos Aires and Caracas, the middle classes are on the streets, banging pots and pans in protest at the venality and incompetence of their leaders. |
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| On 13 April, while Chávez supporters took to the streets of Caracas and the city was abuzz with rumours of the president's return, the privately-owned TV stations ran cartoons and soap operas. |
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| On 3 July 2008, a small aircraft registered in Caracas and bearing a false Red Cross emblem landed without authorisation on an unlit airstrip at Lungi International Airport in Sierra Leone. |
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| Once again, Caracas seethes with talk of conspiracies and coups. Some in the opposition hope the march will be the prelude to a general strike-cum-lock-out to topple Mr Chavez. |
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| El Sistema has survived numerous regime changes in Caracas. |
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| In some ways, fast-expanding cities such as Acapulco in Mexico, Caracas in Venezuela, Maceió in Brazil, and San Pedro Sula in Honduras are harbingers of what's to come in the rest of the southern hemisphere. |
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| We also know of the relationship between Iran and its leadership and Venezuela now, and the fact that there are three direct flights between Caracas and Tehran every day. |
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| Its aim is to spread knowledge about chess in general but also to report about chess news from Venezuela and from the capital, Caracas, in particular. |
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| The Sixth World Parliamentary Forum met in the city of Caracas within the framework of the Sixth World Social Forum from January 24 to 29 2006 and was attended by parliamentarians representing the five continents. |
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| This fiscal problem forms part of a vast campaign by the Caracas authorities to increase tax-pressure on all of the foreign oil companies operating in the country. |
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| Therefore, by taking into consideration the local time in Caracas you can communicate more successfully with people in Venezuela, by the local time in Caracas. |
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| This new electric infrastructure will service a combined cycle plant which will provide power to Caracas, the most populated urban area in Venezuela with 4.5 million inhabitants. |
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| This agreement was signed on November 26, 2008 in Caracas. |
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| Today it operates as CONVIASA, providing frequent flights to domestic and regional destinations from hubs in Caracas and the southeastern Venezuelan city of Ciudad Bolivar with a fleet of regional turboprops and jets. |
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| He investigated building a breakwater and pier at the harbour and a railway to Caracas. |
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| Valencia is small industrial city about two hours west of Caracas. |
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| The money was to be subtracted from the compensation Caracas owed the IOCs for taking majority stakes in the region's heavy crude oil-based upgraders. |
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| Later, he attended a local mathematics school and, when not yet 13, he departed for Caracas to enter a military academy run by an antimonarchist Spanish colonel. |
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| Labour of love It sounds like the last sceS ne from Gregory's Girl when his two pals are hitchhiking to Caracas because the women outnumber the men. |
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| The standoff figured prominently at the Mercosur bloc's meeting in Caracas on Tuesday, with heads of state castigating the holdouts as speculators menacing the entire region. |
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| Caracas consumed seven times more meat per person than in Paris. |
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