Oligopoly In Venezuela Essay

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Since long time ago Venezuela is in the first page of the international newspaper but unfortunately never in a good way. The situation in Venezuela is really reaching levels that no one has ever imagined that such a country could have, people are starving because of the lack of food or because of the lack of money and the inability of buying it. People die because of diseases that could be curable or treatable but the lack of medicine doesn’t provide all people what they need to be cured. The police haven’t made some big efforts in trying to stop the criminals, violence and injustice in the city. The economy also doesn’t help Venezuela’s inflation rate is among the top 2 in the world, this helping in nothing to the countries situation. The …show more content…

The first is the state, made up of the Army, Air Force, Navy and National Guard. This group also includes repressive and coercive institutions like the National, Regional and Municipal Police, well as the country’s intelligence …show more content…

They were part of Hugo Chávez’s plan to “defend the revolution.” The third group, but no less important, is made up of the common criminals that are so well organized in Venezuela that they’re call a “pranatocracy” — derived from the name “pran” given to criminal leaders of jail. In Venezuela, jails are almost always controlled by the criminals themselves and accumulate the largest number of illegal weapons. There are more than 7 million illegal weapons in Venezuela, a large number for a country with 30 million habitants. The government in Venezuela is repressive and don’t hesitate to make use of the weapons. So, in conclusion: is Venezuela in a civil war? we don’t really know the answer to this, if the Venezuelan government continue the making the things as there are right know, yes the country will start a civil war. But if the president Nicolas Maduro starts thinking an realizes what the country is passing through and start looking for help and viable solutions maybe the country would not be in a civil war, and we all want the best for Venezuela because it’s our brother

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