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ONLINE: Explaining Venezuela’s Disaster: Populism, Extractivism, and Socialism of the 21st Century – Margarita Lopez Maya
April 20, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Free
The situation today in Venezuela is one of economic, social and political catastrophe. International Agencies have recognized that under Nicolás Maduro’s Administration the country is undergoing a complex humanitarian crisis. The possibilities to control COVID-19 are in such context almost null. Having been in the 20th Century one of the most successful countries of the region in its modernization and democratization processes, what can explain the outcome we are seeing today? In this presentation, Dr. Lopez Maya of the Center for Development Studies (CENDES) of the Universidad Central de Venezuela will address the consequences of Chávez’s populism combined with extractivism in the destruction of Venezuela’s democratic regime and economy, which has transformed Venezuela into one of the poorest, most authoritarian and unstable countries on the region.
The event is sponsored by the UF Center for Latin American Studies and will be live streamed on their YouTube channel.