by Jarell Insang | Feb 14, 2019 | Boston University
Since the death of President Hugo Chávez in 2013, President Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela as head of state with what some would call, an “iron fist”. Through the use of presidential decrees and the manipulation of other branches of government, Maduro has...
by DONOVAN AMAR WILLIAMS | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s former President now deceased, left the nation in a good condition. The economy was thriving, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled, unemployment and poverty rates dropped in halves, and the infant mortality rate was down under Chavez’s...