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Venezuela: From Democracy to Authoritarian Rule
by Lucca Denardi
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Andrés Silva
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A Democracy that slowly collapsed
Censorship
Weakining Courts
Manipulated Elections
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Why it matters:
-Ideas of mass migration, hunger, a collapsed healthcare system, and human rights violations.
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Jason Rosenberg
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Research Question:
How did Venezuela become authoritarian?
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Lucas van Oort
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Thesis Statement:
My thesis is that Venezuela's democracy collapsed because courts, elections, and civil rights were systematically weakened over time.
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Annotated Bibliography
Human Rights Watch (2018)
ICC (2015)
WOLA (2014)
Corrales and Penfold (2022)
Ballard Brief
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Marcin Wichary
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What the sources show?
growing centralization of power in both Chavez and Maduro
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Outline of my Research
Courts
Internal media
Economy
Elections
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JD Hancock
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Case study: The courts
Maduro took the Supreme Court and picked the judges.
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Case Study: Free expression
Government shutdown on major networks such as RCTV and targeted journalists.
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Humanitarian crisis:
Example milk, meat and coffee. 100-160 USD. 1 USD is 254.31 VS.
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International response
Sanctions, ICC Investigation, and OAS.
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Sudhamshu
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Where my research is going:
Legal analysis
Comparisons with other countries (Turkey, Nicaragua and so on..)
Human Impact
Journalist Guga Chacra
Politician Ricardo Salles
Different views
Solution?
Lucca Denardi
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