Why Is Venezuela's Weak Economy

Venezuela's weak government has led to a weak economy. Venezuela has faced hard times over the past years. It is a country in crisis, from people opposing the government to the lack of food since the economy took a fall in 2013. Venezuela is trying to pick up the pieces despite the opposition. Not only is it suffering from the economy, but form the lack of health care options. Venezuela is located in South America. The capital of Venezuela is Caracas. According to the CIA, Venezuela lies between Columbia and Guyana. It has many beautiful feature such as the Andes Mountains and the Maracaibo Lowlands (CIA 1). Almost half of Venezuela is forest, given that there is a big mountain range running through the country (CIA 1). Venezuelan government has had problems. According to the CIA, there current government is a Federal Presidential Republic. A Federal Presidential Republic is a type of government that is head of state and leads the executive branch. According to Geoffrey Clavel and Benjamin Hue writers for the Huffington Post, former …show more content…
According to the article "Venezuela's Problems are Political, Not Economic" by Paul Bonicelli, the country lacks functioning hospitals and it is not uncommon for patients to die in pools of there own blood due to the lack of care to required medicine (Bonicelli 1). The author Julian Keanu who wrote the article "Venezuela crisis: Caracas hospital shows sorry state of health system", many patients in Venezuela suffer from malnutrition which makes it hard to cure an illness (Keanu 1). Venezuela has a high teenage pregnancy rate and young mothers do not have many available resources for feeding there babies so it is common for babies to die from malnutrition (Keanu 1). Not only is the health system in Venezuela bad, but many people suffer from the lack of human rights