Venezuela Book Report

The history of Venezuela is not necessarily unique in regards to resistance to and domination by European imperialism. Many countries in South and Central America underwent similar transitory periods between colonization and independence. Venezuela is different in the way it continues to resist imperialism in the Common Era. The indomitable spirit of the indigenous peoples of the region still prevails in

Venezuela has roughly 29 million individuals. Venezuela's northern coastline extends around 2,800 kilometers that impart the waters to various islands in the Caribbean ocean, including Los Roques, Venezuela.Venezuela covers roughly 353,841 square miles.The nation of Venezuela comprises of 23 expresses: the Capital Region (Caracas) and Government Conditions that likewise cover Venezuela's islands. Our city has the ideal spot for various sorts of exchanging and developments to come through.

The United States and Venezuela have not had been the best relations with one another. Now that the former President Hugo Chávez has passed away, there are still high hopes for the US that all of that will change. Currently, Venezuela is in a tight struggle right now and if it were not for the US they would be still standing. Venezuela is powerful when it comes to their oil, and have very strong polices: however these policies are not working like before so there are some considerations that might be an eye opener for you. Presenting that Venezuela should be giving with their assets the way the Americans are giving with theirs.

The Americas, now known as Latin America, has gone through many changes in its history, from being conquered by Spain and Portugal, to the people fighting for its independence and finally, making a living as newly independent countries. From the years 1850 to the end of the 19th century, each region had influences, specifically those that dealt with the after effects colonial rule had on the land. Nations that made up Latin America began modifying different portions in their government in attempts to benefit the majority of the people. More or so, they accomplished this goal, each with their own challenges. Evidently, changes within the social, political and economic systems were focused on external factors.

Though Venezuela and The United States are located in the western hemisphere, they are both very different culturally, politically, and socially. The United States is one of the world’s richest nation whereas according to Francisco Toro of Vox.com, Venezuela has, “the world’s highest inflation rate” (Toro). Though the United States has its own problems, they’re very minor compared to Venezuela as according to the same article by Francisco Toro, “Venezuela has become the world’s most visibly failing state” (Toro). Venezuela and The US differ when it comes to migration, culture, politics, economy, urbanization, and agriculture. Venezuela and The US differ greatly when it comes to population and migration.

The increasing cubanization (Cardenas, 2013) of Venezuela alienated the most patriotic sectors of society, most notably the military. The Venezuelan military had been a strong ally to neighboring Colombian forces, as to US forces. Under Chavez the military was ordered to partner with Cuban military and to support Colombian guerillas (Romero, 2009). Within months of Chavez’s election, military leaders began plotting his removal (Campbell, 2002).

“Venezuela reads like a textbook example of the socialist end-game: Social implosion driven by economic collapse, caused by shockingly self-destructive policy making” (Toro 39). “Socialism of the 21st Century” in the end just did not work and had failed. The changes made to the constitution have created a government that runs inefficiently and gives the president too much power. Chavez mismanaged the country's income and caused inflation of the Bolivar Note. Chavez had good intentions, but his programs to help the impoverished failed because of poor management. These people that he was trying to help are now more hurt than they were before because money put into these programs was not used effectively. This money could have been used to invest in the oil reserves and other parts of the economy to set the country up for success. Food is hard to come by and the crime and murder rate continues to raise. The country in debt and cannot even buy imports to sell to its citizens. Venezuela will need outside help if it is to recover from the situation caused by Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. The only reason Chavez remained popular in Venezuela is because the economy was doing well in the beginning and he was able to control the media so that the public opinion of him was kept

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

The unification of the countries is a key concept and belief that Bolivar actively tries to enforce in order to emerge from this previous regime. Although there is not obvious reasons to merge the countries America is large enough to conjoin its borders and still be able to control (pg. 24). The obvious reasons for conjoining the countries is the commonality of the language, culture, religion and similarities of the countries (pg. 29). Nevertheless, Bolivar contradicts himself by stating that it is not possible to emerge the countries due to geography and climate (pg.

Venezuela one of the largest countries of south America was founded according to many historian by Christopher Columbus who was on his third travel to reach the south America searching for gold. Caracas, one of the most populated and most dangerous city in South America is the capital. Because of the beauty and the economic potential that made this country one the most powerful economic attic of the metropolis; it has been flatted by many Spanish travelers who settled their base there to grasp the fruit of the economy. Simon Bolivar known as the liberator of South America engaged himself and his troops in a battle for the freedom of the Venezuela. Therefore, in 1810 Venezuela has been declared officially independence and became republic in 1830. Over the course of the years, this country has known many political government with different ideology from the dictatorship of Juan Vincent Gomez known as “el bagre” to Rafeal Cardera, the predecessor of Carlos Andres Perez. Venezuela has known an economic momentum with the production of cocoa, coffee, cotton and oil. When Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, his goal was to reinforce that momentum economy in order to bounce the social lower class. With that, he created a lot of social and economic opportunities for the lower class in the name of socialism. The government of Chavez seeks to expand the socialism political throughout the country in order to increase his popularity. The socialism system can be helpful for the lower

As stated by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in the House of Commons in Canada, “the government’s inability and/or unwillingness to tackle corruption and impunity, […] allow serious violations of human rights to continue.” This would also erode the progress the government has made in the past decades with respect to the human right’s records, specifically with social and economic rights. Venezuela’s limited capacity add challenges to the government’s ability to sustain progress in the matters of domestic and global economic

Before the early 20th century when one considered Venezuela they thought of Venezuela’s coffee and cocoa exports, however ever since the discovery of petroleum during the early 20th century, Venezuela is one of the world’s largest exporter of oil. They are also one of the first founding members of OPEC. However Venezuela has much more to offer than oil and coffee. Currently Venezuela is rapidly expanding and becoming more stable. Compared to the countries past the economy is strong and growing every year. The most interesting thing about Venezuela is their unique infrastructure. Currently their entire economy is dependent on oil however due to the dramatic changes that have occurred in the recent decades in Venezuela the profits made from

There are two main phases of 20th century Latin American revolutions (Wickham-Crowley 215). This chapter will be largely divided up by analyzing the theories of those two phases. The first wave started with the Cuban Revolution in 1956 and ended around the 1970s when movements began to move away from the foco theory. Most of the concepts behind movements in this time period revolve around Castroism, the foco theory, and classical Marxism. All of these ideas tie to each other in many ways, but also add to existing ideas of social movement theories. The influence that the Cuban Revolution had on Latin American movements in this time period cannot be stressed enough. Each of these components of the first phase of the revolution are vital to the

United States started diplomatic contacts with Venezuela after the removal from the Colombian alliance in 1830, and maintained a usually close link all the way through most of modern history. However, bilateral link has been tense in recent years due to a range of ideologies differences. The U.S. Government still believes both countries can served better by securing a practical and useful bond focusing on areas of mutual interest, including counter narcotics; counter terrorism, commerce, and energy. (“U.S Department of State”)

Galeano portrays this moment in Latin American history as the instant U.S investors took control over the industries. He details the dangers they went through when producing one item to export for the benefit of foreigners, and how they later imported the processed goods from those same foreign countries, injecting money only overseas. The fact that Latin America needed imports to survive initiated the imperial link the U.S has upon it. As stated by Galeano, “The growing dependence on foreign supplies produces the growing identification of the interest of U.S. capitalists operating in Latin America with U.S. national security”11, bluntly showing the relationship between the United States and Latin America. “With petroleum, as with coffee or meat, rich countries profit more from the work of consuming it than do poor countries from the work of producing it”12. Because profit was not being retained in the Latin American countries, nationalization of the industries became of importance. The United States offered intervention in order to protect everyone’s interests with the proposal of free trade, but this was no more than another manipulation to continue having power over Latin America and its resources: “Latin America’s big ports, through which the wealth of its soil and subsoil passed en route to distant centers of power, were being built as instruments of the conquest and domination of the countries to which they belonged, and as conduits