Venezuela, recently, has had a rough time from the bottom to the top. The country has experienced some serious economic and military downturns. Amid the economic crisis, and shortage of food, the country is now questioning their president if he has the ability to deal with the issues the country faces. The falling of the oil price is the major driven force for the country’s economic crisis, since the oil accounts for 95 percent of the country’s export revenue. In the hype of calling for a new government, the opposition party requests for a general election. But the election turns out be crooked.
During the general election, more than 200 voting site has been moved and people sometimes have to go to a distant and crime-ridden neighborhood or some voting sites simply don’t have power and people have to wait a long time before the power comes back. When the votes have been counted out, seventeen of twenty-two governorships vote for the existing president Maduro, while the opposition only have five. People doubt that the election is a fraud and needs a votes recounting. Nevertheless, the people still have faith in the country, just like one of the voter said, “at least we’re doing something.”
This news is correlated with our course theme because first, many Latin American countries have faced some serious societal disorders and people hardly live a decent life. It is a serious encounter that those countries need to tackle with and pay attention to. Countries, like Venezuela has to diversify their economic makeup in order to secure the economic stability. Second, the political leaders within the countries sometimes are trying to become the dictators. And it is a very prevalent scenario in some less-developed countries. Where there is a huge gap between the rich and poor, it is more likely to have uprising, dictatorship and corrupted government. The Latin American countries need a reformation so that they could restart their boomings. Start from a general election.
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