Venezuela is a tropical caribbean counrty on the northern coast of South America. It contains 23 states‚ which are then split into ten regions. Venezuela was first sighted by Christopher Columbus who named it after "Little Italy" since it reminded him of the waterfront in Italy. Its official language is spanish‚ and its population of 25‚375‚281 people consist of Spanish ‚ Italian ‚ Portuguese ‚ Arab ‚ German ‚ African ‚ indigenous people. This beautiful country is well traveled and toured by many
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country I chose to do is the culture of Venezuela. Venezuela is very similar to the rest of the Latin American countries but has exceptional characteristics when it comes to the dimensions that Hofstede describes. The dimensions of culture that will be discussed fall into the four common ones: collectivism‚ power distance‚ masculinity and low uncertainty avoidance. Venezuela is a unique country with many different ideas that relate to their culture. Venezuela falls into the collectivism category.
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The crisis in Venezuela Officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela‚ the fourth largest country in South America is located on the northern coast of the continent and with an estimated population around thirty million citizens. The spanish speaking country is one of the most urbanized in South America with the majority of the population living in and around Caracas‚ the country’s capital. Venezuela is best known for its vast natural resources‚ specially its reserves of crude oil and gas
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Venezuela is a country ruled by dictatorship hidden by democracy. Basically‚ the whole governmental system is controlled by Hugo Chavez and his own party. The problems that exist are foot shortage‚ privatization of recourses(such as oil) and economic issues. The voice of people can’t be heard. Many evidences tells that Venezuela is actually a dictatorship country‚ not a democracy country as it seems. President Hugo Chavez had control of the election in Venezuela. 2 The government was trying
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[]Although Paradise fall doesn’t exist but it was inspired by a real fall‚ the highest waterfall in the world. That is Angle fall. And I want ask you 1 more question‚ can you tell me which country does the fall belong to? Besides this highest waterfall‚ Venezuela is also famous for the kingdom of beautiful women. Lying on the northern coast of South American with the official language is Spanish‚ people call Venezuelan culture is a melting pot which includes the combination of Spanish‚ African and indigenous
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Basic Information on Chavez and Government of Venezuela Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born 28 July 1954) is the current President of Venezuela‚ having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007‚ when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Following his own political ideology of Bolivarianism and "Socialism for the 21st Century"‚ he has focused on implementing socialist
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Name: Alicia Torres The Crisis in Venezuela p.16 What’s the Big Idea? After reading “The Crisis in Venezuela‚” use the graphic organizer below to record the article’s central ideas. Use the topics in the column on the left as a guide. TOPIC STATE THE CENTRAL IDEA RELATED TO THIS TOPIC ECONOMY Shortages of basic goods UNREST Lost in oil South America facing crisis GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO UNREST Insisting to changing to a dictatorship RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. U.S buys oil from
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Paper #1 – Venezuela Today After almost fourteen years in power‚ President Hugo Chavez was reelected by a million votes more against his adversary in October 2012. Armed with huge resources from oil revenues‚ bolstered by the high rates of Popularity and six years ahead of renewed mandate‚ Chávez expressed confidence in the progress of the "Bolivarian Revolution" and the establishment of so-called "Socialism of the XXI century". That confidence helped him to regain control of some basic industries
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Being the Northern-most country of Latin America and strategically located in the Caribbean Sea‚ Venezuela; is best known for beholding the largest petroleum reserves on planet earth. Global interests on this valuable commodity naturally caused foreign companies to explore and work this prosperous land. Winthrop Wright tells the story that during their visits; mainly White-Americans spent their nights at hotels‚ which held a strict policy of refusing service to “blacks” (policy made to guarantee
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Venezuela For centuries peoples of Venezuela lived peacefully and survived by farming‚ hunting and fishing. Then in 1499 after Christopher Columbus discovered Latin America‚ a Spaniard named Alonso de Ojeda led another expedition to the coast of Venezuela. Alonso de Ojeda named the country Venezuela (meaning “little Venice”) after seeing huts on stilts. Soon‚ Spanish began bringing in African slaves. After several years‚ in 1821 Simon Bolivar finally liberated Venezuela. At first Venezuela joined
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