The Crisis in Venezuela. Explained.
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00:00 Introduction
03:22 The Dictator
08:05 The Chavez Legacy
13:36 Crisis
19:02 A Political Crisis
22:39 Disputed Elections
28:20 America
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-seizes-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast-us-officials-say-2025-12-10/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0edxgx31zdo
Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Chavez
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/history/2001/ch11.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4017674
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/dragoninthetropics_chapter.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/hugo-chavez-bbc-hardtalk-interview
https://mronline.org/2010/06/23/how-the-media-mislead-the-public-about-venezuela-the-case-of-stephen-sackurs-interview-with-hugo-chavez/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/hugo-chavez-bbc-hardtalk-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/15/nicolas-maduro-profile-venezuela-president
BBC Hard Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0sWJiYd5w
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-venezuela-key-events/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131021050303/http://larc.ucalgary.ca/sites/larc.ucalgary.ca/files/dr._stephen_randall_the_chavez_legacy_march_2013.pdf
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/07/americas/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-profile-latam-intl
https://www.unrefugees.org/news/venezuela-crisis-explained/
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/what-triggered-oil-price-plunge-2014-2016-and-why-it-failed-deliver-economic-impetus-eight-charts
https://www.eia.gov/finance/review/annual/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/even-sex-is-in-crisis-in-venezuela-where-contraceptives-are-growing-scarce/2017/11/27/5d970d86-b452-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/venezuela-populism-fail/525321/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/07/the-house-that-chavez-built/
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/recession-hit-venezuela-vows-new-year-reforms-foes-scoff-idUSKBN0K81KU/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/13/looking-into-the-black-box-of-venezuelas-economy-caracas-bolivar-maduro/
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/venezuela-crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48121148
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/why-did-venezuelas-economy-collapse
https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/andes/venezuela/venezuela-reversing-slide-dictatorship
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-supreme-court-gives-maduro-broad-powers-1455314375
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/world/americas/venezuelas-supreme-court-takes-power-from-legislature.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/push-to-oust-maduro-fails-as-few-venezuelans-support-recall Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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