What’s Venezuela Crisis Really About?

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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.

Hugo Chavez's political discourse based on the Marxist thoughts soon was creating "The Bolivarian Revolution", and since its beginning offered the XXI century socialism, which one was never described specifically to people. As a result, with the passing of the years Chavez created an atmosphere of division, violence and unrest within the population. Thus, Created a marked difference between the supporters and opponents of his policies, a situation that President Hugo Chavez took in advantages for his own purposes, deploy a communist regime disguised as a socialist. In other words, Chavez tricked Venezuela’s people, offering the establishment of a socialism that was nothing more than a dictatorship adapted to their own purposes, become the most recognized leader of the left in worldwide.

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...

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Works Cited

1. Enrique Standish. “Venezuela Finally Turns Communist”.PANAM.Post. Nov.29.2013.Web.3.Apr.2014.http://panampost.com/enriquestandish/2013/11/29/venezuela-communist-finally/

2. Diego Ore and Brian Ellsworth. “Venezuela protest death toll rises to 33”. Reuter. Mar.22.2014. Web.4.Apr.2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/22

3. Marx, "Critique of the Gotha Program," Selected Writings II (Moscow, 1951), p. 21

4. Steve H. Hanke. “Venezuela’s Playbook: The communist Manifesto”. Cato Institute. Jan.2014. Web.Apr.2.2014.http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/venezuelas-playbook-communist-manifesto

5. John Peeler.” Understanding the Protest in Venezuela”. The New York Times.Apr.2. 2014. Web.Apr.7.2014.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/opinion/understanding-the-protests-in-venezuela.html

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