In the 1630s, there were ideas being proposed between Duke Jacob Kettler and the King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, John II Casimir Vasa for Polish colonization of Venezuela.

[1] Between 1947 and 1949 approximately 4,000 Poles arrived to Venezuela, many were from refugee camps in Germany and a large number of former soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces.

In 1989, Lech Wałęsa paid a second visit to Venezuela where he was bestowed the Order of Francisco de Miranda by President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

[1] In June 2000, a Venezuelan Delegation paid an official visit to Poland and met with Polish parliamentarians and a Senator for bilateral conferences on relations between both nations.

[2] In January 2013, during the first Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the European Union held in Santiago, Chile; Foreign Ministers, Elías Jaua and Radosław Sikorski met and signed several bilateral cooperation agreements.

Venezuela's main exports to Poland include: raw materials, aluminum and chemical based products.