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...
by SAMANTHA LYNN MOAN | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner followed in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, bringing in a new leftist wave of populism to Argentina. Kirchner’s efforts to censor the media, degrade autonomous institutions, and silence opposition highlight her...
by KATHERINE JULIANNE CLEMENT | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In March of 2017, the Supreme Court of Venezuela made a decision that served to highlight the bleak future of Democracy for the nation. In their decision, the Supreme Court took over the opposition-led National Assembly, assuming their powers and bringing silence to a...
