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Venezuela is a country located in the northern area of South America that’s national language is Spanish. It is a very complex and interesting country with many important events in the past as well as some current events that have made headlines. Venezuela has been struggling with development for a long time and it has a landscape that can sometimes make it quite hard to build roads and tracks, thus hindering the forward progress of the nation. Venezuela is a democratic country with a democratically elected president, but that doesn’t mean that everything is going along fine. Even though the people of Venezuela elected Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro in the election of 2012, there have been a lot of recent protests against Maduro since Chavez passed away and Maduro assumed the presidency.
In the past, Venezuela has had a democratic government. However, it started to make front page news reports when president Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil industry and began anti-US reforms that also increased his power as president, including possible reforms that would have removed the term limit. He died in early 2013 and was succeeded by Nicolás Maduro. Maduro continued in Chavez’s footsteps implementing anti-US reforms and increasing his own power. However, near the beginning of 2014, protests began to start. There are considered to be several reasons for the beginning of these protests, one of them being the highway robbery of a couple in January, and another example being the attempted rape of a college student in February. Both of these events cause a chain reaction of protests. However, these have just been sparks to ignite an age old pit of petroleum. The underlying problems started to develop after Chavez began a series o...
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The emergence of Chávez as the new Venezuelan President saw radical changes in economic activities. Chávez has a military background and holds strong influence i...
Interesting processes and historical figures appear before our eyes, with similarities and differences that can give much to talk about, as in the case of the Cuban Revolution and its main figure Commander Fidel Castro, and the Venezuelan process that came to power exactly 40 years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, when Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez became president of Venezuela who was the head of the Bolivarian Revolution. The long relationship between Cuba and Venezuela and particularly among their leaders have triggered a number of similarities and differences found in the ways they manage the power and also in their social and political ideals.
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... was not the best person on Earth, nor was he the worst person as portrayed in the news. The same type of repetition and emphasizing could have been done to portray Hugo Chavez as the greatest leader in the world. If Hugo Chavez actions and objectives were more publicize, then his representation in the media would not have been a evil dictator who is against the U.S, rather it would be man who wanted to help the poor and tried to find peace within nations. Stone states that “the changes that occurred in Venezuela reflect the true spirit of the country’s people. Venezuela was ranked 7.6 on a scale of 1 to 10, in the level of democracy. They placed their democracy higher than any other Latin American.” Stone, Scott, Boykoff, Sheehan, and Dwyer represent Hugo Chavez as a victim of media corruption, but a fighter for still succeeding while being targeted.
All in all, Venezuela is a very complex and beautiful country. It has an interesting history, a large population, and a diverse culture. Local foods also take a large part of the culture here. Exporting goods is also large in Venezuela. The political structure is very different from the United States' political structure. Along with these fascinating topics, the religion and sport factors of the land are also interesting. To sum it up, Venezuela is an amazing and diverse place to be.
1- Issues The main issue of this case is the lack of profits of the airline industry, an industry that should be more than profitable due to the large amount of customers, the necessity of using airlines’ services and the high prices charged by most of these airlines. What we are going to deal with is, why is this happening? And how is American airlines dealing with this problem?. To be able to discuss how American airlines wants to regain profitability, we must identify and analyse different issues such as, the company’s background, the airline industry as a whole, the demand for air travel, the marketing strategies, the distribution systems, pricing policies etc.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone embarked on a journey across the Latin American continent pursuant to the filling of gaps left by mainstream media about the social and political movements in the southern continent. Through a series of interviews he conducted with Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Cristina Kirchner and former president Nėstor Kirchner of Argentina, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Lula da Silva of Brazil, Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Raúl Castro of Cuba, Stone was able to compare firsthand information from the leaders themselves with that reported and published by the media (“Synopsis,” n.d.). It gives light to the measures these leaders had to take in order to initiate change in their respective countries, even if their public identities were at stake. Several instances in the film showed the mismatch between these two sources, pointing at the US government’s interests for greatly influencing the media for presenting biased, groundless views.
The Venezuelan people had become accustomed to governing themselves during the “capture” of Ferdinand II and rule of Joseph Bonaparte. The people of Venezuela set up Junta’s to govern themselves during the rule of Joseph Bonaparte. Parliament in Spain ran to the British for their help and set up the Constitution
In Chavez’s article, he explicates that throughout history, violent revolutions have been more harmful for the poor and workers than beneficial. He employs this information in order to force the workers to cognize that violence should not be utilized because it will result in adverse outcomes. Chavez employs logic and history to allow his audience to understand that violence could become fatal for protesters. Chavez hopes to motivate his audience to condemn violent methods. He attempts to enlighten the workers about the futility of utilizing vehement methods as opposed to peaceful
Spirit makes our fares so low because they know that draws in the attention of the consumer. Once they have your attention you’re shocked at the price so you go for the deal, oblivious to the fact that you walked into their trap. Southwest’s symbol for shareholders is LUV while Spirit’s is SAVE. They are not the only companies to start to enter into these paths. Hotels, rental cars and cruises are all faced with the same choice to embrace the LUV or the thriftiness with SAVE (Elliot
had suffered during the first decade of Chávez’s presidency. Since then, the human rights situation in the country has become even more precarious. Among the detained in Maracaibo, Zulia State, was Televisa journalist Henry Villasmil. Video evidence shows officers of the Bolivarian National Guard assaulting Villasmil and knocking him to the ground. According to local NGO Venezuelan Penal Forum, the reporter was released soon afterwards. This is just one of the many examples of what is going on here and what the situation is. Hundreds of people are protesting in Venezuela and the assaults continue.
Food shortages, high inflation rates, protest, and violence: one sees these headlines in a Google search of Venezuela today. All around the country, there are long lines to buy simple necessities, like bread and milk. High inflation rates lead to shortages of food supplies, which increase frustration leading to protests in the streets and, sadly, an increase of violence. The protests and violence result from the inability of Venezuelans to provide the most basic human needs for their families. Sky-rocketing inflation rates in Venezuela are the result of Hugo Chavez, the former socialist and revolutionary leader of the country, and his administration. While in power, Chavez was so consumed with fixing the social issues in Venezuela, that other aspects of the country were ignored – like the economy. In 2014, Venezuela is left with a destroyed economy, angry people, and a government that is trying to fix the many issues the country currently faces; although the government is committed to finding solutions, the people of Venezuela do not feel the government is fixing the problems fast enough.
Venezuela is a country located on the northern coast of South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, Brazil and Colombia. Venezuela is a country full of beauties and contrasts where people can find beautiful beaches, plains, mountains, and even the majestic highest waterfall of the world (Angel Falls). Also, oil rich nation, one of the upper 10 exporting countries worldwide. During more than four decades, this country lived in full democracy until 1999, when a former military officer, who was involved in a military coup years ago, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias won the presidential elections, and who remained in the government until he died in 2013 from cancer.
Ever since the fall of 1930 when the Spanish Revolution began there has been no surcease of the struggle in Spain. For a long time there was a deadlock of forces, an equilibrium in the tug of war between the property holders and the destitute. Now the equilibrium is being definitely broken. The issue before Spain is either Communism or Fascism. The matter is being fought out not with ballots but with bullets and ruthless civil war. Slowly the political revolution is being definitively turned into a social revolution.
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