by OSNY DAVID CALDERON | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Following the death of extremely popular president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez in 2013, his vice president and handpicked successor Nicolás Maduro was appointed and later narrowly elected President only winning 50.6 percent of the vote. Maduro claimed he would continue...
by ADJA MAGETTE HUDSON FAYE | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Since 2012, Venezuela’s economic condition has been on a downward spiral and the country is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. The political climate has worsened as democracy is continually undermined in the regime led by current president Nicolás Maduro. The...
by DONOVAN AMAR WILLIAMS | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s former President now deceased, left the nation in a good condition. The economy was thriving, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled, unemployment and poverty rates dropped in halves, and the infant mortality rate was down under Chavez’s...
by SAM (SAMUEL) GLICK | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Venezuela’s Plunging Democracy Over the span of twenty years, democracy in Latin America has eroded. Venezuela’s longstanding democracy is on the brink of destruction after Nicolás Maduro took over following the death of former president Hugo Chávez in 2013. In recent...