Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela
Under the administration of President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. The executive branch has gained too much power which has led to the gradual destruction of human rights. Since 2014, there has been an increasing shortage of food, supplies, and medicine throughout the country with little response from the government. The Venezuelan government is able to intimidate, censor and punish anyone who criticizes them. The government lacks separation of powers, and judicial independence, and the Venezuelan Supreme Court justifies the government’s abuse of power. The judicial process ignores the basic due process rights of the political prisoners. Maduro claims that the issues in Venezuela were caused by the economic war and drop in oil prices, but until recently, the Venezuelan government altogether denied that there is a crisis. There is undeniably a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, and more needs to be done to help the country and its citizens recover.
The Venezuelan government is destroying the rights of its citizens. The press is censored, and anyone who criticizes or protests against the government can be prosecuted. Citizens who are arrested for acting against the government are often abused, and the abusers do
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Some protest, but the protesters are often arrested and abused. Many Venezuelans have fled to Brazil seeking refuge, work, or medical care. Brazil tries desperately to meet the needs of the humanitarian crisis victims, but hospitals are struggling to accommodate the large number of Venezuelans on top of local patients. Other citizens demand change within the country. These Venezuelans demand that the government allow aid to come into the country, hold elections, free political prisoners, and redefine judicial independence. Although the people are pushing for change, their efforts have been ineffective to this
People in both Venezuela and in Fahrenheit 451 are not allowed to speak out or go against the government without the government's harsh retaliation. Both of these instances show suppression of freedom of speech, but this theme is more strongly expressed by Maduro’s actions.
Analysis of Venezuela’s political history and current governmental systems, demonstrates former President Chávez designed the Executive Office to be the epicenter of the political system, and therefore a strategic COG. Within Venezuela’s present political system, Nicolas Maduro sits at the helm, leading the country through somewhat unstable political and economic times. To do this, he must persevere to sustain Venezuela’s sovereignty, safeguard its...
In today’s world, a leader of a country has an immense power. That person can either wisely nurture the nation he or she has sworn to guide, or be responsible for the steps backward that country will be doomed to take at the end of their rule. There is no in between. Venezuela, a South American country that has a coastline on the Caribbean Sea, is a prime example of this truth. Venezuela is an oil-rich country that suffers from a multitude of problems created by previous governments, most notably the Chávez regime. Under Chávez’s rule, the country was guided down a devastating and highly controversial path (Rohter). Although this oil-rich nation had been lead by flawed leaders before, Hugo Chávez was the man who is ultimately responsible for the fact that Venezuela is currently spiraling out of control. A champion of the poor, his legacy in Venezuela can be felt still today (Rohter). Although he died over a year ago, the ultimately disastrous choices Chávez made for Venezuela have culminated into violent protests that began in February 2014. Hugo Chávez was a highly controversial leader whose socialistic ideologies and policies that focused on elevating the poor continue to affect not only the current president, Nicolas Maduro, but the country as a whole by providing the fuel to the violent protests occurring in the country due to issues such as inflation, government corruption, terrible crime rates, and food shortages.
Since the 1970s, Venezuela has gone from being South America’s richest nation into a nouveau-poor society in search of an identity. Once known as the Saudis of the West, Venezuelans have seen their economic fortunes decline in exact proportion to the general fall in world oil prices. Even so, Venezuela’s many problems were hidden from view until relatively recently, when severity measures heralded the sort of economic crises so painfully familiar to other Latin American countries. Runaway inflation, currency devaluations and even food riots have marked this new phase in Venezuelan history, to which the country is still trying to adjust.
Do you know about Venezuela? I would like to show you the most amazing country in the world. Its name is Venezuela. Officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, it is an American country located in the northern part of South America, consisting of a mainland and a large number of small islands in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest urban center is the city of Caracas. The most important aspects of Venezuela are its culture, sights, and weather.
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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.
To start of, there are different types of reasons why revolts and protests commence. For example, Crimea is fighting for their rights, better connection, and to break the ice from nearby countries. Brazil does not feel that their government officials are to be trusted, due to previous scandals. While Turkey feels that the U.S. is invading their country and controlling it; there is lack of self-government. Even though the U.S. is only trying to fight against ISIS not with the Turkish people. Turkey also takes the leading hand by expressing more violence than the other two countries. As Brazil’s economy can’t get any worse, the public has spoken and is now trying to impeach their current president Mrs. Dilma Rousseff. The inhabitants of these countries are not only fighting for what they believe in, but they are also fighting for what is right.
Venezuela was one of the richest countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador). For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms. Democratically elected governments have held sway since 1959. Current concerns include: a polarized political environment, a politicized military, drug-related violence along the Colombian border, increasing internal drug consumption, overdependence on the petroleum industry with its price fluctuations, and irresponsible mining operations that are endangering the rain forest and indigenous peoples.
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.
Throughout the fourteen years that remained in power Chávez followed strategy of introducing a socialist government in Venezuela in stages. According to Enrique Standish in the article titled “Venezuela Finally Turns Communist” it happened in four stages. The first stage consisted of obtaining t...
Young people covering their faces from tear gas bombs, being transported by the national police covered in blood, and holding SOS signs are only a few of the images that have been flooding social media for what is now being called the “Venezuela Spring”. The series of protests, political demonstrations and civil unrest are today entering its second week, and as the death count keeps rising, so does the tremendous international media campaign. These young Venezuelans students, with the help of the opposition political party are fighting for their right to food and civilian security. Since their government is not providing them with the latter, they want a regime change. The current government is not threatened by any of these actions, and instead is warning the Venezuelan people that these protests neither will nor resolve the economic, social, and political problems and instead will prolong the crisis. If we used typical international relation theories, for example realism, that claims that states cannot assume any changes unless there is a self-centered motive involved, this cannot accurately explain the behavior that is happening in Venezuela. Using the two actors of right and left Venezuelans, in this paper I aim to argue what ways the international relations theory of constructivism explains the outbreak of the Venezuelan protest.
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to the basic requirements of life; a place to live, food to eat, and a form of employment or access to education. Currently, the largest cause of refugees is the Syrian civil war, which has displaced over 2.1 million people. As a country of relative wealth, the United States should be able to provide refuge for many refugees, as well as provide monetary support to the refugees that they are not able to receive.
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... to do. There have been unnecessary killings and beatings and now the country is trying out keep the rest of the world uneducated about the affair. The concern of the Venezuelan citizens is less of a concern. This shows "how people define security is defined by the historical and national conflict" (Smallman and Brown 36). Policies and intuitions on handling security are changing everyday.