Essays on Venezuela

US Foreign Policy and Latin America During the Cold War

The Alliance for progress was a multi billion dollar aid program that was devised by the Kennedy administration to foster economic relations with Latin America and also thwart the growth of communism in the region in the aftermath of the cold war. The Alliance for Progress was a result of the cold war between the USSR and the US, the Cuban revolution and the US fear that communism could take root in a region that was poor, unstable and economically underdeveloped. Latin America was largely colonized by the Europeans and the relation between the US and the continent was ...

Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Questions and Answers Based on Geert Hofstede's Ideas

Definition:

Power distance is the term used for nations that have an expected gap in power among citizens, which are not disputed by the citizens, but accepted as part of the societal reality.

Summary:

When examining the nations of Bhutan, Russia, Venezuela, and Japan one can clearly see that a high degree of power distance exists in both Bhutan, who scored 94 and Russia, who scored 93. Venezuela had a fairly high power distance of 81. Japan scored the lowest on in comparison to the other countries at just 54. Definition: Individualism is ...

The hydrodynamic power is the result of the transformation of the potential energy of water, that is, a column or height difference of water that moves a primary machine that generates mechanical energy. The mechanical energy later is transformed in electricity, thanks to the use of a generator.

Main components of the hydroelectric plants

A large dam to store water, provide a constant flow of water and accumulate potential energy in the form of hydraulic load. A large capacity of the dam gives reliability to the hydroelectric plant with a guarantee of a constant flow of water to the turbines. An abduction which is a ...

Influence of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 2

Economic growth of countries outside the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development 4 Bric: Brazil, Russia, India and China 5 Trade between non-OECD countries 5 Climate Change Policy 7 The greenhouse effect 7 Strengthening the greenhouse effect 8 Global climate change 8 Oil reserves in the world 10 Influence of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) OPEC long ago lost its hegemony in the world oil market but remains a major influence on prices against the formidable challenge of US oil shale. OPEC decided she decides to continue producing in abundance not to give more ground to ...

Finance

About the paper The objective of writing this paper is to perform an in-depth yet succinct analysis of the financial statements and Management Discussion &Analysis (MD&A) section of Procter and Gamble (P&G). The attempt made will constitute a one-run discussion of all the financial statements and MD&A section within the accounting framework and a format of an accounting paper. The conclusion will thus assist our readers as how the company has performed during the recent years and how the management access their financial performance. However, before we initiate the core discussion, we will provide a brief discussion relating to ...

Introduction

This historiographical essay relies on the works of six authors to discuss the nature of guerrilla warfare and its implications on political, social and economic stabilities of the nations in Latin America. The articles address aspects of terror acts carried out by both insurgents and regimes to engage each other. The historiographical essay is also important in using historical accounts from articles to discuss the factors that contributed to success of revolutionary wars in nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua. The approach taken by the essay is chronologically reviewing by year of publication, what different authors wrote on the ...

Life without the very basic necessities like water, food and electricity seems like a myth to the residents of America, and we all hope that we do not live to see a day when that happens to our country. For some unfortunate countries, however, the situation is not that massive of a myth rather these shortages are parts of the problems that the people of Venezuela face in their everyday lives. Right now, the country of 30 million people has become one of the worst examples that may be set for the people of the world to follow. But ...

Question 2: Energy and Risks

Energy is fundamental to life. Without the resource, billions of individuals would remain hungry and cold. The prominent source of energy emanates from fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil in the developing and industrialized nations. Despite providing numerous benefits that sustain human, plant, and animal life, the fossil fuels also present disadvantages that have resulted in ecological damage, political disruption, and production failures. This paper attempts to compare the political and environmental challenges introduced by natural gasses, coal, and oil as well as possible remedies that can alleviate the problems. The greenhouse emissions that arise from ...

1. Introduction The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries – OPEC coordinates and unifies the policies among the oil exporting developing nations. The increase oil production has an impact on the supply and demand side and impacts the prices and incomes of the OPEC countries. The examination will answer the research question what are the effects of increased oil production in the OPEC countries with the focus on the Middle East member countries.

Problem

The Middle Eastern countries with the production of oil impact the international price of oil and also their incomes. The OPEC countries, which are among the biggest ...

Geography

Colombia is one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia back in the year 1830. Colombia is bordered by Panama to the Northwest, Venezuela and Brazil to the East, Ecuador and Peru to the Southwest. Colombia is the forth-largest country in south America with a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometers. Colombia has tropical climate as most of it mainland is located within the tropics. The climatic variations in the country Colombia are mainly influenced by altitude. The country can be divided into climatic regions, the hot country, ortierra caliente this is ...

The Table

Cover page. Abstract History Contradictions Opinion Policy Recommendation References Abstract Corruption is a social, political, and economic vice that causes economic problems due to mismanagement of public resources (Girling, 2002, p.81). Corruption in Venezuela rates among the highest standards in the world due to its prevalence in the society. The country ranks among the top 20 most corrupt nations in the world; it is position eight in the ranking. Seventy-five percent of the Venezuelans believe that corruption is widespread in the government hence difficult to eliminate. Protests witnessed in 2014 cited corruption as the main reason for their discontentment ...

Colombian conflict - asymmetric warfare, which began in 1964 (active - since 1966) and continues at the present time, between the Government of Colombia, paramilitary groups, criminal syndicates and leftist guerrillas (FARC, ELN) for influence in the country. It is believed that, historically, the civil war has become a continuation of la violencia - armed struggle between conservatives and liberals in the 1948-1958. The victory of the conservatives in this struggle led to the unification of liberal and communist militants in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Causes for the outbreak of conflict, each party interprets to their ...

Article Summary

Inflation is often described as a situation of ‘too much money chasing too few goods’ in terms of classical economists . This is the situation now in Venezuela. With the fall in the oil prices in the world market the country is going through an economic strain. To tackle the situation of hyperinflation the government is importing loads of banknotes . In recent times it has been observed that most of the governments print currency notes through professional private agencies that use better technologies that make the notes safe from being counterfeited, like watermarks and security strips. A number of concerns ...

International business: US – Cuban trade

QUESTIONS:

The United States should not tighten the economic grip on Cuba. The growing unpopularity of the policy on the world stage puts the United States in a negative light in the international community. Due to the embargo, the United States is obligated to accept any number of migrants from Cuba who arrive on American soil. Lastly, the policy creates an enemy of the United States less than 90 miles off the coast. This has already proven the dangerous and hazardous potential in the Cuban Missile crisis. As a global hegemon, it is expected that the United states will ...

Democracy can be described as a government for the people and by the people. It is a government where the people have the supreme power, and they can exercise it either directly or indirectly. A good way of applying democracy is through free and fair elections. Democratic satisfaction is the degree to which the citizens of a particular country trust the kind of democratic leadership presented to them. In the world as a whole, democracy has taken different turns depending on the region. Latin America has also felt the Democratic wave and democratic transition has been witnessed in many ...

This paper will cover oil price dynamics for the period starting from 2005 until the present moment of time. Exact price dynamics will be considered as well as a variety of factors influencing the oil price through the above mentioned period of time. The chart showing the dynamics of crude oil barrel price since 2001 is presented in fig. 1. Figure 1. Dynamics of crude oil price per barrel for the period between January 1, 2001 and April 19, 2016 (Trading Economics, 2016). Before the period, which is the subject of this paper, the oil price had been nearly ...

Religion has an enormous influence on any given society. Religion has been widely praised for promoting prosocial behaviors among individuals in society(Moore, 2015). Psychologists as well have acknowledged the benefits religion has to our lives such as reducing the rates of depression. In Sociology as well, religion has been long recognized for its effect of promoting prosocial attitudes and behaviors. It does this by regulating behavior and coming up with norms and values that integrate people into the society. Emile Durkheim proposed that religion has a prosocial influence of decreasing suicide via establishing values and norms by which ...

Maduro has been one of the most controversial leaders in Venezuela’s history given that he has carried on Chavez’s terrible economic policies that has caused a great nation that used to be a superpower in Latin America to be in crisis both economically and politically. Maduro, like many other leaders in Latin America that are on the outs, is the symbol of an ending of an era that is too far to the left in Latin America. What Maduro stood for as a leader carried on the ideals of Chavez and Guevara in Cuba. These ideals are ...

The CIA has been used to initiate numerous coups in South America including Venezuela whose intent has over time been shown to be to advance the interests of the United States by overthrowing leaders that do not tow its line and replacing them with less reactionary leaders that it can easily manipulate. The involvement of the United States of America in South America has by all means been open, especially following the Cold War. These relations range from diplomatic, trade, security to political engagements as evidenced by the Organization of American States (OAS). However, deeply tacked in the historical ...

 To date, in the fourteen Latin American countries, those in power are leftist politics (the issue what kind of leftism and the degree of radicalism it is about) will be discussed later. Regardless of all the uniqueness of the moment and the apparent dissimilarity of modern Latin American lefts with their predecessors, there is a clear tendency, which is characteristic for the Latin American model of development as a whole – a tradition of powerful leftist movements, the struggle for social transformation. Facing deep structural crisis, the continent came into a long strip of the struggle against the dictatorship, local ...

Coca Cola most recent financial statements for the year the fiscal year ended 31st December 2015, addresses foreign currency exchange risk in Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosers about Market Risk (Coca Cola, 72). The company faces significant foreign exchange risk because it operates in 72 currencies and earns $23.934 billion from operations outside the United States (Coca Cola, 72). Coca Cola operates in over 200 countries and faces three types of foreign exchange risk, transaction risk, translation risk, and economic risk. The company manages its foreign exchange rate risk on a consolidated basis. The transaction risk is the ...

In the next 5-10 years there is a major issue that has developing that will be facing the business world. This issue that is going to be a major problem for both businesses and government is surely going to be money laundering. In order to understand how money laundering is a threat to both governments and economies it is first necessary to understand what money laundering is itself. Once the definition is understood only then can we apply that definition to the business world through analyzing how this white collar crime effects commerce, government involvement in the business world, ...

Kyle Torpey. “Hyperinflation in Venezuela: How Bitcoin May Help.” Inside Bitcoins. The problem with the Venezuelan economy is that it has been collapsing for a long time so far. Bolivar, endemic currency, has lost in value so significantly that nowadays even the biggest bill in the Venezuelan system costs maximum sixty American cents. That is why the Venezuelan economy badly needs a boost. Potentially a very good boost of Venezuelan economy may be introducing bitcoin. The idea is to trade bolivars to bitcoins and therefore reduce the amount of bolivars in Venezuela therefore increasing their value. However, there is ...

Introduction and context

The oil industry and its pricing are an important subject in the international finance. The oil is the most important commodity in the world economy. Oil took an economic and geopolitics importance after the World War II in the 1945 and the Gold Standard elimination from the United States of America in 1971. The oil and its price in the United States Dollar are the bases of the world economy. Currently, the oil is its lower value from 2003 when the oil barrel has a value of 20-25 USD. The oil barrel achieves the highest value of history in ...

Latin America as emerged as a country characterized by political instability and uneven development. The increasing trend in political instability is motivated by instability in Brazil and Venezuela and sustained by the constant high levels of violence and crime in Central American states. In South America, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela were the least ranked countries in terms of conflict and political instability. In Venezuela, there was an increased risk of violent crime, demonstrations, and political instability since the economic crisis had deepened and the anti-governments reactions had risen. The research was conducted in 2015 which took into account the ...

The bilateral relationship between the two countries has a number of dynamics with varying complexities. The regional contextual relationship between the US and Venezuela had a dramatic changes post the cold war era. The US government has shown overextension of its approaches to the Venenzuala case by pushing for democratization with much focus on people centred leadership in the region. However, Venezuela as the case of other Latin states has had significant emphasis maintenance of their sovereignty. The conflict of interest with US position shown massively in their policies on economic sanctions have affected the relationship between the two ...

Introduction

Corruption is a social, political, and economic vice that causes economic problems due to mismanagement of public resources (Girling, 2002, p.81). Corruption in Venezuela rates among the highest standards in the world due to its prevalence in the society. The country ranks among the top 20 most corrupt nations in the world; it is ranked position eight. Seventy-five percent of the Venezuelans believe that corruption is widespread in the government hence difficult to eliminate. Protests witnessed in 2014 cited corruption as the main reason for their discontentment with the government. The right question to ask in this case is: ...

International Baccalaureate Internal Assessment Economics HL

International markets are quite dynamic given that many demand and supply factors come into play in the determination of market prices. Countries depend on international markets to trade surplus commodities in an effort to earn incomes which are not only used to power economic development but also acquire goods and services these countries demand. Venezuela for instance, is a nation with huge oil and gas reserves and as such, has benefit from favorable international market prices for both oil and gas (Al Jazeera Media Network). This was especially the case when the international price for crude oil rose sharply ...

Venezuela’s private property rights

The Venezuelan government has been autocratic in snatching land away from their rightful owners and handing it over to others which is clear violation of property rights. The cause behind this action ownes back to a decade when the opposition party to President Hugo Chavez lobbied with business elites and plotted to shrink the economy by controlling agricultural output. This was enabled by big land owners (‘Latifundistas’ in Venezuela) started stalking almost 6.12 Lacs Hectare of land and shunned any agricultural activity on their land (Fuentes 1). This loss in agricultural output started reflecting in terms of fall in ...

Introduction to Econometrics

Part 1

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CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a Delaware corporation with its headquarters located in Houston. The CITGO Company deals with refines, transports and markets gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, petrochemicals, lubricants and other petroleum-based industrial products. PDV America owns the CITGO Company, indirectly entirely owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA); the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s national oil company. The company has employed 3700 employees. It owns and runs three incredibly intricate crude oil refineries in Lemont, III., Charles, La., and Corpus Christi, Texas. The company owns one of the biggest factories in the nation with a capacity ...

Medical Anthropology is considered one of the elements that make up anthropology and the study has been widely appreciated across the world. This field was founded by George Foster and Ben Paul. This field studies the health and diseases of individuals where the environment forms an interrelationship with the human health system. The main purpose of this paper is that the author of the article believes that the future of medical anthropology is to intersect with other fields.

The article discusses the future of medical anthropology. What is the future that the writer is talking about?

- Medical anthropology is expanding to other fields and interacting with other with other disciplines in the science department. Though medical ...

Introduction

The pharmaceutical industry in South America is projected to increase in value over the next decade. Based on this and other factors, it would be prudent for pharmaceutical companies hoping to diversify in the international market to consider the South American market. This report intends to make a recommendation to the strategic management committee of our company so that any decisions on where to diversify are informed. In this regard, this report will consider Venezuela and Argentina as potential countries for expansion. This report will consider different factors in order to provide a broad analysis. Some of the factors that ...

ABSTRACT

The research argues that although a gas flaring stoppage is not successfully in-place in Nigeria, fitting the appropriate technology with complementary economic and institutional factors can lead to near-zero or zero gas flaring. Nigeria is a developing country with a unique culture of many tribes and one of the largest growing urban populations in the world. Infrastructural, political and economical challenges to meeting the goal are introduced. Reinjection of gas back into wells is not available as an option to gas flaring because a large region for gas production is wetlands (Buzcu-Guven et al. 2012). Wetlands ...

For the past five decades, Venezuela has enjoyed a stable and rising economy. The country was one of the founding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The citizens of Venezuela have over the years continued to enjoy the revenues generated from exporting petroleum product. The government has provided well-equipped hospital facilities, subsidized food products and provided free gasoline to its citizens (Globe mail 2015). However, Venezuela is not reading from the same script it read twenty years ago. The country is plunged into an economic and political crisis. Oil prices have dropped by more than fifty percent and ...

Introduction

The movie “Bolivar Soy Yo” that was released in 2002 is detailing an actor’s story who is well known because of his “El Liberator’s” interpretation and he was called Simon Bolivar. The fiction and the reality began to mix because of the strong public admirations and the role. Later, after reaching the stage-acting limits, the actor believes himself to be Bolivar. This film was developed in Colombia and the country had experienced a deeper conflict among its states for more than half a century. Columbia is in the middle of about fifty years and still in conflict ...

Terrorism is not as much about killing a maximum number of civilians as sending a message about its aims and aspirations. ETA, a Basque separatist, nationalist group has stood for the independence of the Basque province since 1959 deriving encouragement from Marxism, nationalism, and other kinds of ideological influence. To achieve its strategy, the multi-compartmental group with a complex and secret structure of limited interconnections has used a set of tactical approaches like killings, intimidation, and humiliation. While its leadership has been subject to rotations due to it being targeted by the authorities, it has forged multiple ties with similar radical or extremist organizations ...

Members of missionary orders spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans in the 16th century. Who were these missionaries? Whose side were they on European or the American original peoples and why? Elaborate and provide examples. In the 16th century, there were a number of missionaries who spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans. The time of the age of exploration, the Europeans realized that there are many people with different cultures especially in America. This is what caused missionaries to be sent in order to spread Christianity. Most the missionaries were sent by some of the countries that ...

The price that is paid for poverty does not just affect the poor, it affects are paid for by the society in which that poverty exists. In any society that has poverty, the most vulnerable victims of that poverty are children, who are subject to live in the situations that they were born into. On a micro level, children growing up in impoverished conditions will carry emotional scars, which limit them throughout their adult lives. On the macro level, society will be harmed at various levels due to the prevalence of poverty within their societies. As will be outlined in ...

Abstract

Foreign investment is becoming more and more common. Millions of investors directly or indirectly invest in foreign markets these days. However, the process of investing in an asset in a foreign market is more complex than that of investing in the domestic market. That is why a stepwise screening process is important to select the potential markets and sites. The standard steps recommended by most of the investment manager investing in foreign markets include the identification of basic appeal, assessment of the business environment, measurement of the potential of the market and selection of site based on financial analysis.

Introduction

Flows of ...

Jose Antonio founded 35 years ago in Venezuela youth orchestra that according to his bio has “transformed thousands of kids’ lives in Venezuela.” In the TED Talk that this essay analyzes, he gives a speech recounting that journey, and also gives insight into what he believes would have an impact all around the world on students. He uses the personal anecdote of what he was able to do in Venezuela to challenge a change in the education system all over the word. This essay analyzes the rhetorical techniques that Antonio employs in order to make his point and convince his audience ...

In 1595, Sir Walter Raleigh made an appearance as first British since he required claims of the mythical city of El Dorado in British Guiana. The city was within the river system called Orinoco that is now found in (Venezuela British Guiana, & British Empire Exhibition, 57). - Dutch was the first who completed a practical company by creating 3 colonies entitled Essequibo, Berbice and Demerara. However, there were weakened colonies among the three that were challenged by French pirates and privateers. - During the American Rebellion, the connection between the two states started declining since the British was ...

There has always been an interest to know what triggers certain collective actions in societies, especially in contentious politics. Governments have always had to deal with social unrest, protests, uprisings and public demonstrations when parts of the population feel they are being oppressed or that the government does not respond to their pleas. However, majorities do not seem to participate actively in political demonstrations. In fact, even massive public manifestations encompass small percentages of populations. In the famous book The Logic of Collective Action, Mancur Olson offers a list of conditions that would deter people from participating in collective activities , ...

Cuba is the largest nation in the Caribbean. Cuba is located approximately ninety miles from the southern coast of Florida. Cuba has been the subject of a number of struggles in its history. Cuba was the final colony that gained independence from Spanish rule. The initial struggle for independence from Spanish rule in Cuba imitated in 1868. Thirty years afterwards, when the U.S. military intervened in the Spanish American War, Cuba gained its independence in 1898. Cuba’s Independence was established by the Treaty of Paris, which was conceded subsequent to a three year period (Vanderbush 57). The perspective of CIA ( ...

Considering that no apparent reason has been attached to Leopoldo Lopez detention, people have come out for his defence particularly the many countries that embrace freedom and human rights. From a critical perspective, Leopoldo Lopez deserves his freedom; because the charges are not true. This paper will, therefore, present views that oppose Leopoldo Lopez’s release. On the flip side of this case, Leopoldo Lopez ought to be detained owing a number of reasons. As perceived by those in favour of his detention, he should remain in detention for having spearheaded protests that have since destabilized the country (Latin Times ...

Emphatically, oil is an essential product in the entire universe. The mentioned product swanks upon human dependence coupled with the sole drive of myriad economies. Oil prices significantly impact on the country’s economic expansion. Consequently, it is vital for oil producers to consider the cost of production. The cited cost, adversely dictates innumerable populace utility on the valuable product. Worth mentioning, the current news on oil prices is out rightly encouraging. The paper endeavors to explicitly highlight on the current information regarding oil prices. Prevalently, oil prices have significantly reduced. Myriad factors have instigated the mentioned fall ...

1. Give us some history about refugees, immigration, and displacement. Venezuela has one of the largest populations of refugees in the world. Venezuela citizens have suffered internal violence for decades, which has been caused by illicit drug trade. Paramilitary and guerrilla organizations have fueled the production and sales of illegal drugs in the country, which has made some people, leave the country for USA. The new life in USA requires the refugees to have a refugee identification card, which is used to register their children for school. 2. What has been professional organizations’ response to the displacement? ...

Children are the most defenseless victims of poverty within a society. Poverty has a number of causes, but it’s effect on children is the perpetuation of what is known as a vicious cycle of poverty where kids of a certain economically disadvantages lineage go on to have few opportunities as adults. Research has shown that their children get caught in the same poverty trap and the causes of poverty then go on to have the effect of producing more impoverished children. From a long view, one of these effects is that a society becomes disadvantaged because it has a portion of its population living in ...

A nation’s environmental connections and geographical location affects so much of its points of development. Relatively, for a nation like Columbia, such condition of developmental chaos has been evident especially in the manner by which the nation tries to survive its battle against drug production and distribution in the country. When a country is surrounded by various countries and when some cities are near each other, will they have similar culture and traditions? Also, will they have some illegal issue when they have various borders? I hypothesized that the cities near each other by the border lane would have similar ...

Introduction

Economics can be defined as a branch of social science which involves satisfaction of unlimited needs with scarce resources. It entails analysis of trade by use of intuitive graphs and mathematical elements. Economics is a field of science because of the presence of uniform laws guiding it and as a social science it studies human behavior and the choices they make. It is essentially divided into two macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics is the branch that studies large scale economics. It concerns itself with how industries and consumers’ functions at a national or international levels. Microeconomics, on the other hand, deals with small scale ...

Economic integration is something many economists have proposed to protect the finances of regional blocs. The first modern example of an economically integrated federation is that of the United States. Its success has been subject of study for centuries and was the inspiration in the design of the Eurozone and many other economic alliances in the world that seek to increase the living standards of their citizens by letting them have a more active role in international trade. One of the most recent economic blocs that have come into being in America is that of the Pacific Alliance. It is ...

Everyone Wants to Be a Homeowner. Why Not a Foodowner?

Thesis Statement People like to invest in the housing rather in food because of the long term benefits associated with housing and for securing the future.

Explanation

People want to make healthy investment decisions. This is because of The Individual’s Economizing Problem, the wants of people exceed their needs because of the scarce resources and limited income, so they want to make such decisions from which greater output can be obtained. Josh Barro describes the same phenomenon in the article Everyone Wants to Be a Homeowner. Why Not a Foodowner? In the New York Times, that people want to own ...

IPO Markets: Global Prospective

Introduction IPO markets across; Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela seems to be on the growing trend. More and more companies seem to be trading their securities in the national markets. Most of them are moving towards making or rather raising huge capital base for their own companies. Brail has witnessed a positive trend in the IPO segment. Given the fact that Brail will be hosting 2014 world cup and 2016 Olympic Games; most of the company owners understand the need of expanding their businesses in order to accommodate this population. The hotel as well as the hospitality sector have ...

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights. The conditions were worse for the slaves, and they decided to resist in ...

Latin American countries had adopted capitalism as an economic system that arose from the industrialized Europe and the more developed United Sates. However, capitalism did not solve the societal problems of many Latin American societies. Instead, capitalism created a society where a group of elites controlled the state and the economy of many Latin American countries. Even with the rapid economic development that many Latin American countries experienced in 19th century, economic development was not witnessed among the lower middle class and the peasant farmers. Abject poverty was still a feature of a large percentage of the Latin American populace. The urban poor ...

Terrorism is one critical area in the world that has caused a lot fear, death and threat to millions around the world. Taliban, Al Qaeda and ETA are some of the major terrorism groups formed in different parts of the world. Al-Qaeda and Taliban are somehow the same. These two terrorist organizations have Islamic roots although they have differences in the doctrines and ideologies. On the other hand, ETA which stands for Basque Fatherland and Liberty is based on the Marxist principles within the Spanish Basque provinces of Alava, Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya. The three are designated as foreign Terrorist Organizations ...

North American Free Trade Agreement is a regional trade agreement that was entered by the United States, Canada and Mexico on January 1, 1994, with the aim of bolstering trade relations and volumes in the region. Just like any other free trade area agreement, NAFTA was intended to reduce the business trading costs amongst the three countries for the benefit of the member states. This paper discusses the many advantages and positive aspects that have been brought about by this trading block, and the impact that this free trade agreement has had on the economies and citizenry of the ...

The process of drafting a foreign policy involves decision making which is crucial to take actions to make changes in the world and these actions are monitored and evaluated based on the feedback to assess the efficacy of decision making. There are four models such as rational model, bureaucratic model, organizational model and conceptual model which can best explain the foreign policy. The theory of rationality or rational actor model comes from the assumption that rational decision making is important to analyze the action, exchanges and foreign policy between governments, states and non-state entities. This paper will discuss about the ...

1.Who was Gen. Augusto Pinochet and what did he do on Sept. 11, 1973? He was an army general in Chile and on Sept. 11, 1973 successfully staged a coup of Chile. 2. Who filmed this documentary and how did they gain access to Pinochet's Prisons? A European film crew talked their way into the concentration camps. They filmed many things that they were not supposed to, resulting in some of the only recorded records of what was happening.2. Who were people detained and on what grounds? People were detained if they were perceived to have ...

Abstract

Crime is a problem that has been persistent in society in the past and still is today and will be there in the future. The study of the trends of crime is one aspect that will assist in policy making. The past makes the present and the future. This essay will show how the crime trends have evolved in the past present and their impact in the future. Crime trends are defined as a significant change in the nature of selected crime types within a defined geographical area and time period. It is a measure of significant change in an area’s crime ...