Venezuela

utterly defeated the Inca empire. Many Peruvians still speak Quechua the language of the Incas. G. Simon Bolivar is known as the “George Washington of South America.” He was born in Venezuela, but he was educated in Europe. He led the settlers of South America in a revolt against Spain. He helped to free Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and parts of Peru. The part of Peru he freed later separated to become Bolivia (named in honour of him). H. By 1830, all of South America except Guyana,…

The 21st century socialism is an idea that came over in 1996 and took relevance when the president elected for Venezuela in 1999, called Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, started talking about it in a speech in 2005, referring to the way it would benefit the country and the way that it would improve the economy levels by that time. This variety of socialism grew up with foundation in Carl Marx theory but taking into consideration the changes that have gone through the world in the last century. The four…

place where he was frequently visited by people who came brought him gifts and would write him notes of support. The same happened in the prison of San Francisco de Yare, where he was taken after. When released from prison, Chavez traveled all over Venezuela, where his ideas were gaining popularity at a rapid pace, in a weary population, among…

Cattle Ranches in Brazil This article is from October 16 and it presents information about how people are clearing forests for cattle ranches, mining operations and oil pipelines. These forests, like the amazon, were being cleared at a rate of 149 acres every minute, or 214,000 acres every day. The result of these forests and trees being cleared was that it was causing global warming, ozone depletion, species extinction, rain forest destruction and it has depleted fisheries and…

Church much like Chavez caused in the political arena. Peter McLaren is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and works in the Division of Urban Schooling, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The government of Venezuela in 2013 honored professor McLaren with the International Award in Critical Pedagogy. Professor McLaren’s work has been translated into 20 languages. In his article, Mclaren contrasted the adulation of the newly elected Pope and the…

Cuba and Venezuela have arguably been the most oppressed Latin American countries in the entire world. Cuba has been under a communist dictatorship for the last 50 years, while the Venezuelan people have been stripped of their rights money and food by their last two presidents. As a result, the citizens of both of these countries have flooded the streets in protest of their respective governments, which has led to the killing and kidnapping of all who express dissatisfaction of those in charge.…

Oil plays an important economic and social role in Venezuela. The country earns $15 to $20 billion per year in oil revenues, constituting between 75 and 80 percent of Venezuela's total exports. Taxes, royalties and dividends from PDVSA represent roughly 50 percent of all government revenues. Oil activity directly and indirectly generates around 40 percent of national economic activity. (Giusti) The oil impacts on Venezuelas economy can be broken down into three concentric circles. The first…

cocaine in the neighboring state. Both of these states had been having a long, hurtful battle with cocaine. Two different sides of the war on narcotics that affected every citizen of the cities and towns in multiple ways. Venezuela and Colombia had violent history with cocaine, but Venezuela had more of a problem with the people of the government and wanting to be able to provide for their families from planting the coca plant legally. This paper will argue that Latin America has been extremely…

Often times, if there is public unhappiness from the government the citizen take a stand and they begin to protest any unjust treatment by the hands of the government. One example, I would like to reference is one from one of our books, which is Venezuela “by 1928, after twenty years in power, Gómez confronted new, unfamiliar opposition forces. Under the guise of student celebrations held during carnival festivals, university protestors took to the streets of Caracas, demanding an end to…

Simon Bolivar was one of the many refugees who sought resource and was welcomed in the land of Haiti after the the first republic and Venezuela collapsed. While in Haiti, Bolivar utilized the funds from the Haitian republic to conduct his unsuccessful invasion of Venezuela. Haiti was a “gathering point for populations that were swept up in the insurgencies on the mainland and were not welcomed by the colonial governments of the other Caribbean islands” (Fischer 26). Since Haiti was a gathering…