by DELANEY GOODMAN | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Hugo Chavez was Venezuela’s most successful president and democracy’s worst nightmare. His socialist rhetoric and policies were the catalyst for a devastating democratic backslide in Venezuela. Since the early 1900s Venezuela has gone through an era of political...
by Leonard Cisneros | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
After Hugo Chavez passed the gauntlet to Nicolas Maduro back in 2013 in seemed that Maduro lead the country into an economic collapse; however, the failure of Maduro’s regime was not initiated by him, but rather was a long drawn out process caused by Hugo Chavez....
by PATRICK MICHAEL FRENCH | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
What started with the defeat of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in the December 6, 2015 legislative election has turned into a full fledged attempt to consolidate power by president Maduro. The Venezuelan government has recently pushed forward the 2018...
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 Celina Avalos | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In a time where rights, freedom, and democracy are being threatened across Western democracies, it’s imperative to ask the question: why are democracies failing? However, in focusing on the Democracies of the West – the developing nations – we remain silent on the...
