Venezuela Crisis Quiz

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Social Crisis

+Prices in oil drop +Increased problems with the government management of the money +Inflation =Shortage of food and supplies, hunger, unemployment, blackouts, crime -Maduro diet >"Doing without makes you tough" >People skipping meals >Weight loss -Refugees >UN asks other nations to treat them as refugees >"Let them in as official refugees and let them work even if they don't have identification"

Hugo Chavez's great success (2)

-Charismatic -Oil boom (put oil money in to social programs)

Economic crisis

-Chavez >All about spending, little saving >Not a friend to private business, companies leave >Corruption flourishes >Controls currency-rise of the black market -Oil=90+% of venezuelan exports -Maduro's attempts to regulate imports to save value of venezuelan currency doesnt work -Rather than raise taxes or cut spending (saw as political suicide) Maduro prints more money >Inflation skyrockets as a result

FPG Humanitarian Ideals

-Foreign aid -Promoting Democracy

FPG Protecting National Security

-Foreign nations -Other threatening groups

FPG Promoting Economic Prosperity

-Globalization in trade

FPG Preserving World Peace

-Mediating disputes

Political Crisis

-Nicholas Maduro takes over -Accusations of corruption and management -March 2017 >>Supreme court tries to take over national assembly controlled by Maduro's power (Reserved ruling 3 days later) >>Riots and protests in street against government -July 2017 >>Controversial elections set up new assembly (rewrite constitution)

US Role

-Not so good relations for years >Bush, Obama, and Trump administration put sanctions (penalty) on Venezuelan companies and government -Trump imposes new sanctions >Anyone who works for the Venezuelan government or is a family member cannot come into the US >In August 2017, Trump said wouldnt use our military or money options to resolve crisis in Venezuela

Crisis in Venezuela (3)

-Political: Government corruption -Economic: Oil prices and inflation -Social: Reaction to the political and economic (hunger and crime)

Foreign Policy Goals (4)

-Protecting National Security -Preserving World Peace -Promoting Economic Prosperity -Humanitarian Aid

Who was Hugo Chavez

-Socialist -Nationalized industries -socialist programs (increase in education, unemployment dropped, helped the poor) -With money came corruption -But had popular support

Tools of Foreign Policy (2)

-Soft Power: Persuasion -Hard Power: Coercion

Hugo Chavez shady side

-Some dictator type policies -restricted freedoms of the press -Attempted coups against him (not popular with upper class and the US government) -Called president Bush 'the devil' during US speech

Who is Nicholas Maduro

-chavez's vice president -Chavez named him a successor -No government experience (bus driver) -Elected under the promise of keeping Chavez's policies going -Took over in 2013 (soon after oil prices fell)

FP HP Intelligence Gathering

Assess the threat

FP SP Diplomacy

Conducting Negotiations

FP SP Cultural Exchanges

Contact of people (foreign tours, study abroad, performing artists, etc.)

FP SP Trade Relations

Cross border commerce

FP HP Military Alliances

Defend

Wilsonian

Doing what is right

FP HP Boycotts and Sanctions

Economic Pressure (tariffs, trade barriers)

FP SP Foreign Aid

Help for less wealthy countries

FP HP Armed Force

Last resort

FP SP Summits

Meetings of head of state

FP SP Treaties

Peaceful Agreements

Realpolitik

Realistic politics (Politics based on practical and material needs rather than on moral or ethical ideas and objectives); What is best for the US

FP HP Covert Action

Secret tactics to influence events


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