Hugo Chavez

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    Venezuela

    is the fifth largest national economy in Latin America. Venezuela is highly dependent on oil revenues, which account for roughly 90% of export earnings, about 50% of the federal budget revenues, and around 30% of GDP. In recent years, President Hugo Chavez has been systematically increasing the government's control of the economy by nationalizing firms in the cement, steel, petroleum, communications, and electricity sectors. This page

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    Hugo Chavez's Economic Crisis

    suffering a severe crisis. The question is, how this country that has larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, cannot fin basic good in shops? The crisis is a consequence of an economic mismanagement and the authoritarian Chavista Government. When Hugo Chavez came to power, his goal was to reduce inequality and provide a fair distribution of wealth among the population but, his failure was to diversify Venezuela’s economy. The financial health of the country was in excellent condition when the price

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    International Finance Mini Case

    ông yêu cầu một nguồn cung đô la lớn để thanh toán các đơn đặt hàng. Tuy nhiên trong thời gian Tổng thống Venezuela Hugo Chavez cầm quyền và đưa ra các chính sách thay đổi trên các lĩnh vực kinh tế, tài chính cụ thể là kiểm soát vốn làm những người kinh doanh như ông Santiago khó có thể tiếp cận được nguồn đô la cần thiết. Ông Santiago đã tham gia kêu gọi phản đối Tổng thống Chávez do đó bị CADIVI không cho phép hoán đổi đồng Bolivar (đồng tiền của Venezuela) thành Đôla. Trong khi đó, Santiago có

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    Expropriation

    Nationalization &; Expropriation Nationalization is defined as the concept of a government seizing the private property of foreign nationals. In other words, nationalization is the alteration or assumption of control or ownership of private property by the state. It is historically a more recent development and differs in motive and degree from “expropriation” or “eminent domain,” which is the right of government to take property for particular public purposes (such as the construction of roads

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    From today's featured article Water Rail The Water Rail is a bird of the rail family found across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are migratory, but this species is a permanent resident in the warmer parts of its breeding range. It breeds in reed beds and other marshy sites with tall, dense vegetation, building its nest a little above the water level from whatever plants are available nearby. The adult is 23–28 cm (9–11 in) long, and, like other rails, has a body

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    The FARC In Colombia

    The FARC formed in 1964 as a military wing of the Communist Party in response to the establishment of a military government in Colombia that outlawed the Communist Party and marginalized the liberal left. During the Second Conference of the Guerilla Bloc of Southern Colombia, peasants officially founded the FARC in 1966. They believed they could defeat the Colombian government and increase the distribution of wealth. (Lee, 2012, p. 30) In 1984, the FARC participated in peace negotiations with

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    Analysis of the Venezuelan Oil Market

    Running Head: VENEZUELAN OIL MARKET 1 Analysis of the Venezuelan Oil Market BINT 6311 – International Business Management University of the Incarnate Word VENEZUELAN OIL MARKET 2 Table of Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................3 Review of Venezuela ....................................................................................................................

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    Socialism

    Edberg Espinoza Writing Studies II Lindsey Wilson College 5/1/2015 Socialism in Cuba and Venezuela The Socialist ideology policy that titles those philosophies and political actions that protect an economic and political system founded on the organization of production systems and social control by an organized bottom-up workers' state, economic and political sectors to evade that a minority of citizens owning the means of to exercise the abuse of a majority that does not possess the means

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    Hugo Venezuela's Oil Crisis

    country. The unemployment rates came down by 50% in the country and the policies were appreciated worldwide. Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA) which contributed to more than 90% revenue to country hired lakhs of people to curb unemployment. In 2013, Chavez passed away and Nicolas Maduro was elected as president. However his government faced low prices of oil unlike previous government. The economy was completely dependent on oil as other sectors were never given importance. Since most of the exports

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    Comparison and Differences Between Cadiviand Permuta

    Examine the connections and differences between the official exchange rate market controlled by the Cadivi and the permuta. Discuss the states of equilibrium in each of these markets. Venezuela is considered one of the countries with a rich supply of oil in Latin America. With this resource however, the country’s foreign exchange market has been dismal. Even though other oil producing/exporting countries are enjoying the high price of oil over the years, Venezuela has not been enjoying the

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