Venezuela

By: Maria Martinez

Shelly Gonzalez

Jocelyn Juarez

Chapter One

Location: Northern South America

Characteristics: Tropical, hot, humid and more moderate in high lands. Andes mountains and Maracaibo lowlands in northwest; central plain (llanos) Guiana highlands in Southeast

Capital: Caracas

Climate: Rain causes flows rockslides, and there are sometimes periodic droughts.

It has the Andes maintains , Central plain(llanos) and the Guiana highland in the southwest.

Population Population under

18: 28,047.938 Growth rate:

408%

Birth rate: 19.88 Fertility rate:

2.4 children. Infant mortality:

20.18 deaths. Population

today: 34,775 Males: 23.65% Females:16.54%

Challenges

Venezuela's government will get w weaker if it doesn't try harder to get to the bottom of drug, and slave trafficking

Its population will decrease due to the dangerous the people face from these problems.

Chapter Two:Type of Government

1930: Collapse of Bolivar dream of large gran Colombia Venezuela ruled by patriot caudillo from llanos.

1935: Dictator Luan Vicente Gomez died. In his sleep seeds of democratic transformation were planted.

1945-1948: Many leaders experienced their first taste of democratic rule.

1958: Dictatorship ends.

Revolutions in Venezuela

Causes Antonio Guzman

Blanco overthrow the conservatives and the liberals.

Effects The liberals decided

to go to war and the liberals won.

Civil War Changes Venezuela

The civil war changed Venezuela because the conservatives was over thrown because

the dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. The conservatives thought that wasn't right so they took stand and went to war with the

liberals. It also stopped Venezuela from oil distribution, so they couldn't move forward

and industrialize fast as like other countries.

Chapter Three: Industrialization

Venezuela’s economy today is larger based on petroleum sector and manufacturing.

Oil: Oil accounts for 90% of the export income. They ship oil to Puerto cabello, Guaira and Chumana.

Corn: gold counts 60% of the economy’s revenues.

Banana: bananas and other types of agricultural products account for 50% of the economy.

Sorghum: Pork is also important 2/3 of its food needs. (also contributes to agricultural income.)

Sugar cane: they grow sugar cane but there has been a decline in the growth.

Chapter Four: Imperialism

When Spain colonized in Venezuela, they had a lot of restrictions, and it lead to illicit acts of piracy,

The creation of the new empire Made the country more powerful. After the colonization of Spain. Muslims invaded. The Venezuelans eventually sent them out and they regained more land.

Chapter Five:World War 1

Before the first war, Venezuela was alliances with Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.

Venezuela was never involved. They always tried to stay neutral

Chapter Five:World War 1 Time Line

1914: Venezuela's first oil gusher was drilled near lake Maracaibo . Discovery of oil in Venezuela prompted royal dutch/shell to build an oil refinery in Caracas

1915: Victor Marquez Bustillos provisional president o Venezuela.

1916: Jan. 24 Rafael Caldera is president of Venezuela

1917: Oil was first pumped from the bed of lake Maracaibo in upper northern west Venezuela.

Chapter Six: World War 2

Venezuela was involved in world war 2 for helping the united states after the bombing of the Pearl Harbor.

Another reason why Venezuela was involved was because the allies supplied oil.

Venezuela's alliances were Italy, Japan, Germany and the U.S. Venezuela was neutral because they did not want to get involved.

Time Line : 1939-19451939: Venezuela stops all relations with Germany,

Italy, and Japan.

1940: Venezuela needed import controls and Venezuela producers prepared from war although the official rate was 3.19

1041:Rate was established at 3.19 Bolivar in July 1041 the official selling rate was changed.

1942: the reform an increased in the shape of capital and intermedia.

1943:Venezuela moved towards controlling it's oil industry.

1945: Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany

Chapter Seven:Cold War

Venezuela was Cold War alliance was the OAS.

1947: Venezuela's first democratically elected leader Romulo Gallegos, overthrown in 8 months military coup led Marcos Perez Jimenez

1950: Marcos Perez Jimenez served as a dictator.

1958: Jimenez forced into exile, led to Venezuela democracy.

1964: Venezuela's first presidential handover from one civil war an to another took place.

Chapter Eight:Technology

In 2006 the National Science Foundation published their science and engineering Indicators for 2006. There is little mention of Latin America, especially Venezuela, although the NSF does conclude that there are several nations that have made tremendous technological advances over the past decade and are positioning themselves for further technological development to become high-tech exporters.

Heath/Medical

Beginning in June 2003 through a trade pact with Cuba, Venezuela began to bring Cuban doctors, medical technology, and medications into rural and urban communities free of charge in exchange for low-cost oil. The 1.5 million dollar per year program expanded to provide a broad network of small neighborhood clinics, larger regional clinics, and hospitals which aim to serve the entire Venezuelan population

Chapter Nine: Problems In Venezuela

Freedom of press

Illicit drugs

Women trafficking

Private property

Re-elections

Freedom In Venezuela

Despite the many advances we have witnessed among countries in our region, democracy is still threatened in the Western Hemisphere. The rights of free speech, a free press and individual expression are essential to the functioning of our institutional democracies. Nevertheless, authorities in Venezuela have recently taken actions against press critics and others who engage in peaceful dissent.

I WANT FREEDOM !!!

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