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Published on Dec 06, 2025

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Venezuela: From Democracy to Authoritarian Rule
by Lucca Denardi

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A Democracy that slowly collapsed

  • Censorship
  • Weakining Courts
  • Manipulated Elections

Why it matters:

-Ideas of mass migration, hunger, a collapsed healthcare system, and human rights violations.

Research Question:

How did Venezuela become authoritarian?

Thesis Statement:

  • My thesis is that Venezuela's democracy collapsed because courts, elections, and civil rights were systematically weakened over time.

Annotated Bibliography

  • Human Rights Watch (2018)
  • ICC (2015)
  • WOLA (2014)
  • Corrales and Penfold (2022)
  • Ballard Brief

What the sources show?
growing centralization of power in both Chavez and Maduro

Outline of my Research

  • Courts
  • Internal media
  • Economy
  • Elections
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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.

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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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?