POL305Y1 Lecture Notes - Ten Year Rule, Food Security, Bolivarian Missions
12 Mar 2014
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The exceptional democracy while other la nations were facing dictatorships, venezuela had a consolidated democratic system the first time venezuela had an elected president didn"t happen till 1945. Ad party, 3 year window of democracy was that democratic action ran the country for the benefit of itself as a party, stacking bureaucratic institutions in its favour, strengthening control in unions, and oil sector. Jimenez 1948-1958 infrastructure still exists in venezuela to this day, very little reinvestment up until 4 years ago. Partidocracia- regularly scheduled elections that were tightly controlled by these few party powers from 1958 onwards, progressive exclusion of anyone accused as communist. 1962, guerrilla insurgency founded by people kicked out of democratic action, akin to the cuban revolution, fails drastically carlos andres perez 1974-79: venezuela doesn"t respect oil embargo starts to make a ton of money, nationalization of oil sector.
