Portal:Venezuela/Did you know


 * ... that Operation Gideon, an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
 * ... that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway?
 * ... that Venezuela won its first Olympic medal in 1952 with triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish, who competed while injured?
 * ... that Jean Arp designed the wavy form of the Berger des Nuages sculpture to simulate nature and express opposition to the machines that caused wars?
 * ... that VENEZUELAN PATROL BOAT Naiguatá (pictured) was recently sunk in a skirmish with the RCGS Resolute?
 * ... that Venezuelan film editor and director Alfredo Hueck became interested in film after learning how to set up his family's Betamax player?
 * ... that Juan Guaidó, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, tried to climb over a fence to vote in the 2020 committee elections after being blocked from entering the building?
 * ... that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot?
 * ... that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes?
 * ... that marketing for the Venezuelan film That's the Woman I Want told prospective viewers it was so funny they would forget about foot-and-mouth disease?