...Women’s Struggles in a Socialist Venezuela Venezuela has overcome many obstacles, and triumphs as a country that always been full of oppression on the people. With years of oppression and marginalization, a new president in 1998 came into power, this President is Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez was able to win the presidency, perhaps because he has been viewed as a people’s man. Chavez has made it very clear that he is for socialism, and not for a neoliberal Venezuela, “Es el neoliberalismo el camino? Sí, el camino al Infierno. Ese es el camino al Infierno” - Hugo Chávez. Hugo Chavez has set out a plan for his socialist government, this plan has been designed to finally put an end to all the oppression the many lower class marginalized groups have faced over the decades. However, it is very evident that putting this plan into action has proved a lot more difficult than Chavez and his administration thought it would. For this reason, it is clear that for social justice, and the democratization of this country have been widely affected, and not for the good. As Chavez has changed the agenda, but in the view from social justice and democracy, he has lacked to really implement change for the better, and this is why we still see a high number of marginalized groups that are fighting constantly for more rights. Women have continued to fight in the name of social justice and democracy to pave a way for all the women that are oppressed. If we view Venezuela from the view of the plans put into...
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...feels that the society they live in is oppressed whether by a foreign or domestic influence, revolutionists arise to bring about change however they see fit. While some revolutionists are often viewed in infamy to others such as Hitler, the people who benefited during the better years of their rule tend to view these revolutionists as heroes. One of these well known revolutionists is Hugo Chavez, and while he's known to be hated by both foreign and domestic groups, he is considered a hero to many others. Hugo Chavez was born July 28, 1954 in the town of Sabenta. He was of mixed race and lived in poverty for most of his childhood life (Kozloff 18). Despite being poor, both of his parents were highly educated compared to most people in Venezuela, and thus taught him the importance of studying and education. It was during his childhood that Hugo Chavez was introduced to Jose Esteban Ruiz Guevara, and thus Simon Bolivar (indepthinfo). Bolivar was a revolutionist who helped to free much of Latin America from Spanish control and even attempted to create a nationalist government in Latin America before his death (biography). Essentially, all of these events during Hugo Chavez's childhood helped to shape his goals and inspirations as president. While in college at Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences, Chavez participated in a four year officer training program which by 1975 he graduated with the rank of sub-lieutenant (indepthinfo). During his time in the military, Chavez spent...
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...Racial discrimination is any kind of action or belief that someone is less of a person or to put someone down because of their race. Racism is prevalent in all nations and can affect someone physically or mentally. According to Medical Daily, racial discrimination can lead to people getting depression and anxiety. This is a very serious and traumatizing type of discrimination that can cause people to take their own lives over something very small such as the color of their skin. For example, in America, when Michael Brown (an African American) was shot dead by a white police officer. This then caused an uproar in the African American Community and also led to immense violent protests. Racial discrimination affects everyone at least once in their lifetime and some are discriminated against for their whole lives. According to The Washington Post, India and Jordan are the least racially tolerant. There was a World Values Survey which asked people who they would not want as a neighbor. Most people in India and Jordan said that they would not want to live next to someone from another race. North and South America are the most racially tolerant according to the survey . That being said, racial discrimination is still around even though there are laws against...
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...Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Country Focus & Five Questions Chapter #2-Country Focus: Chavez’s Venezuela Page 42 Hill - Global Business Today 8th Edition Type each question and give answer below question. Answer the question consistent with the homework guidelines on page 4 of the syllabus. Management 470-International Business Management Fall 2014 Question 1: Under Chavez’s leadership, what kind of economic system is being put in place in Venezuela? How would you characterize the political system? (3 points) Under Hugo Chavez’s leadership, a democratic socialist system was formed. Chaves was a huge advocator for global capitalism beginning when he ran for office. Chavez’s first step toward holding power over the government was when he took over the distribution of resources around Venezuela. In 2005, he announced an increase in the royalties the government would collect from oil sales. He also seized control over the court system when he fired Supreme Court justices. Chavez also extended government control over the media as well. Lastly, Hugo Chavez took various enterprises into state ownership and required that other enterprises be restructured as “workers’ cooperatives” in return for government loans. Question 2: How do you think that Chavez’s unilateral changes to contracts with foreign oil companies will impact upon future investment by foreigners in Venezuela? Discuss each concept and element of the question within the framework of an actual and specific...
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...hand, and this ended up frustrating his subjects and making them feel betrayed. The second stage that Russia went through, the moderate stage, has slightly different characteristics: small protests start sometimes with small scale violence, and moderates become involved. Moderates are known as individuals or groups who look for a subtle change but nothing dramatic. In Russia, the Duma was created out of a compromised constitution between those looking for change and the Tsar. The next stage that the Russians endured is known as the crisis stage. This phase is known for the violence and riots, political assassinations, and a radical control over the government. Riots and bloodshed was common amongst this chaos. In 1918, the Tsar was assassinated by an organized group of radicals. One of the faces of the Russian Revolution was a communist who went by the name Levin. He was very centered around his radical beliefs and quickly took over the government. The final stage of a revolution is known as the recovery stage. This is when terror ends, the government resorts back to its old ways, radicals are removed from power and moderates take over again. However, a decision must be made: peace or war. In Russia’s case, war was in their future. Events similar to Russia are still happening today. Venezuela is well into a bloody revolution. In 2013, Nicolás Maduro was put into power as oil prices were beginning to drop. Inflation began to occur, ultimately impacting all citizens, especially the...
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...ORIGINAL RESEARCH FORECASTING SIGNIFICANT SOCIETAL EVENTS USING THE EMBERS STREAMING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SYSTEM Andy Doyle,1 Graham Katz,1 Kristen Summers,1 Chris Ackermann,1 Ilya Zavorin,1 Zunsik Lim,1 Sathappan Muthiah,2 Patrick Butler,2 Nathan Self,2 Liang Zhao,2 Chang-Tien Lu,2 Rupinder Paul Khandpur,2 Youssef Fayed,3 and Naren Ramakrishnan2 Abstract Developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity Open Source Indicators program, Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) is a large-scale big data analytics system for forecasting significant societal events, such as civil unrest events on the basis of continuous, automated analysis of large volumes of publicly available data. It has been operational since November 2012 and delivers approximately 50 predictions each day for countries of Latin America. EMBERS is built on a streaming, scalable, loosely coupled, shared-nothing architecture using ZeroMQ as its messaging backbone and JSON as its wire data format. It is deployed on Amazon Web Services using an entirely automated deployment process. We describe the architecture of the system, some of the design tradeoffs encountered during development, and specifics of the machine learning models underlying EMBERS. We also present a detailed prospective evaluation of EMBERS in forecasting significant societal events in the past 2 years. Introduction Anticipatory intelligence is considered to be one of the next frontiers...
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...military dictatorship, democracy had yet to be discovered. The transition wasn’t smooth but yet most South American countries managed to enter the 20th century with somewhat democratic governments. This essay will consider how in a fresh out of the oven democratic era they were still some countries that were dealing with dictatorship; that oddly enough operated in very different ways but the result was the same: One man had full power and control over his state. More specifically this essay will study Venezuela and Chile, Hugo Chavez and Augusto Pinochet, populism and authoritarianism which in a remarkable yet fairly different way narrows it down to the same result: Presidents who made their way to the top and managed to become dictators of their states. Throughout time they way governments have chosen to govern their states has been based on different political ideologies that were shaped over history. This essay will focus particularly on Authoritarianism and Populism. Venezuela had an example of a dictator, which some Venezuelan considered a hero, who based is political career promoting populism as the best way to rule a country. On the other hand you have Chile a country that today remembers the darkest years of their history inflicted by Pinochet an authoritarian that took over power through no democratic mean at all, and forced his way to the top. Firstly becoming familiar with the political ideologies is crucial in being able to compare these two regimes. Populism by definition...
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...Police brutality should never be an everyday thing. Most of these protest are because the people feel averse towards police brutality or corruption. The world is finally awakening after being asleep for so long, our generation is realizing that the world they’ll live in won’t be a corrupt and unfair world. Protest in Mexico are one of the one that’s being strongest right now, Mexico is done with its corrupt government and the people who are blind towards the...
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...these many people, each of them with a different story and background. My week as a volunteer at Harvard Worldmun was an enriching experience. Hundreds of people passed by me hectically. As days passed, I started to learn more about people from all around the world. About passions and obstacles. I met a girl from Venezuela who was moving to Panama after the conference, she asked for asylum. Her family was being persecuted for participating in a protest. My heart broke into a million pieces, the feeling of chills running down my spine had never felt this cold. I participated in numerous protest in my country. I knew what it felt like to believe in a cause so noble that you would be willing to fight tooth and nail for it....
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...Venezuela is a major transit country for cocaine usually processed in Colombia. Law enforcement agencies estimate that over 100 metric tons of cocaine transit Venezuela annually. There are some indications that the quantity of drugs transiting Venezuela is increasing and that smuggling of Colombian heroin is a growing problem. Narcotics-related corruption remained a problem in legal and financial systems and within security forces. Moreover, the Venezuelan authorities need to do more to combat diversion of chemical precursors and money laundering and to address the problem of over-flights by drug trafficking aircraft. Venezuela continued to be a major drug transit country in 1998. Most large scale drug shipments transiting Venezuela originate in Colombia and are smuggled out of major Venezuelan ports in commercial cargo to the U.S. and Europe. Drugs are transported on commercial aircraft (either by drug mules or hidden in air cargo) and small aircraft through Venezuelan airspace. In addition, boats carrying drug shipments from Colombia pass through Venezuela's territorial waters on their way to Caribbean transshipment points. Venezuela is a transit country for essential chemicals, which are either exported legally to Colombia and other source countries, diverted for use in cocaine labs, or smuggled out of Venezuela for this purpose. For instance, gasoline and cement are exported legally from Venezuela to Colombia and then diverted for use in cocaine processing. In 1998...
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...countries met in Miami, United States, in November 2003 to discuss the proposal.[1] The proposed agreement was an extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Opposing the proposal were Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Dominica, Nicaragua and Honduras (all of which entered theBolivarian Alternative for the Americas in response), and Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Discussions have faltered over similar points as the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks; developed nations seek expanded trade inservices and increased intellectual property rights, while less developed nations seek an end to agricultural subsidies and free trade in agricultural goods. Similar to the WTO talks, Brazil has taken a leadership role among the less developed nations, while the United States has taken a similar role for the developed nations. Free Trade Area of the Americas began with the Summit of the Americas in Miami on December 11, 1994, but the FTAA came to public attention during the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, held in Canada in 2001, a meeting targeted by massive anti-corporatization and anti-globalization protests. The Miami negotiations in 2003 met similar protests, though perhaps not as large. The last summit was...
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...SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS J. Sebastian Smith The Bahamas October 2011 Title Strategic Implications from the People’s Republic of China’s Influence in the Americas: Potential Consequences facing the United States, Brazil &Venezuela Abstract This research seeks to examine the strategic implications facing the United States of America’s due to its benign interest in the Caribbean and Latin America (Americas) given the People’s Republic of China (China) increasing economic interest in the region. It is intended to first define the current security environment of the Americas and the relations between Brazil and Venezuela with that of the United States of America (United States) and China. Thereafter, China’s economic and domestic agenda in the Americas will be examined with hypotheses of the emerging global power potential growth success, challenges or possible collapse in her foreign policy. The likely consequences facing Brazil, Venezuela and the United States will also be examined. The assessment will be done across a continuum of China’s realized economic growth, development of hostile relations due to competition for scarce energy sources or possible collapse due to the country’s internal problems. Finally, the research seeks to encourage proactive thinking by the United States on China’s increasing political and...
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...[pic] Term paper Term paper title : Campus Violence. Course : Eng-102 Sec : 19 Introduction: In our recent time campus violence is a worldwide burning and worrisomeissue. Political instability, student politics, psychological problem and mental instability of students are the most responsible factors to occur this incident frequently. Since globally campus violence is increasing in a concerning rate and general student s are the main sufferer of it, so we have to think about their future and solve this problem right away; otherwise a tremendous shock is waiting for us. And that is why we want to work on this topic. Campus Violence: A Haphazard condition in Educational Institutions What is Campus Violence? According to Oxford Dictionary violence means, “The behaviour involving or caused by physical force that is intended to hurt or kill somebody” and when the violence occurrs in educational campus, it is called CampusViolence. Violence is always prohibited and when it occurs in educational institutions, it is Obviously distressing and crucial fact. Worldwide educational institutions are faceing this problem frequently. It hampers the regular activities of the institutions. General students...
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...publishing. However, in view of the natural scope for human and/or mechanical error, either at source or during production, Business Monitor International accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage resulting from errors, inaccuracies or omissions affecting any part of the publication. All information is provided without warranty, and Business Monitor International makes no representation of warranty of any kind as to the accuracy or completeness of any information hereto contained. ISSN 1474-5615 Vol 29 Issue 3 March 2012 Andean Business Monitor International’s monthly regional report on political risk and macroeconomic prospects THIS MONTH’S TOP STORIES VENEZUELA Living On The Edge BMI View: This year will be of pivotal importance for Argentina and Venezuela, with potential knock-on effects for the entire region. Both countries are on a highly unsustainable macroeconomic trajectory, which could lead to an economic and political implosion....
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...intra-regional economic integration—ALBA, UNOSUR * Expanding economic partners outside the hemisphere—China * Security: * States worry about subordination to the “gringos.” Address problems themselves or with immediate neighbors, rely less on US— * LatinAmerican presidents joined together to defuse tension between Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela after Colombia’s March 2008 raid inside Ecuador * South American Defense Council (2008)—aimed at institutionalizing and coordinating “defense and security policies in the region while preventing and mediating conflicts within South America * United States: * Economic dependence on the region on the rise— * 50% of US energy imports (largest share accounted for by any region) * 32% of all US FDI * Environment, illegal drug trade, and immigration have intensified interdependence * Economic stronghold at risk * China—offers a path independent of US and liberal economic orthodoxy * #1 trading partner for Brazil, Chile, and Peru * #2 trading partner for Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba * 2000-2009—imports increased from $5 billion...
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