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...
by RICHARD JARET TEIJEIRO | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On March 13, Venezuelan police arrested former interior minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres. Torres had been a vocal critic of the current president, Nicolas Maduro, since he was removed from office. This is the latest in a series of arrests of political opponents or...
by UMA MUKUL VAINGANKAR | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
RIDING IN ON A LOW Hugo Chavez rose to power in Venezuela almost two decades ago in the midst of public distrust and discontentment with the Venezuelan government and judiciary. In 1992, Presidente Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez survived two coup attempts led by then...
by MICHAEL RAY KENICHI TOWNSEND | Mar 13, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Nicolas Maduro, who is the President for Venezuela, has been in office since 2013 and took over after Hugo Chavez. Because Maduro continued Chavez’s policies, Venezuela’s economy declined with crime, inflation, poverty and hunger increasing which made him lose...
