1. Expropriations

    ISSUES:

    Expropriations

    Since 2002, the Chávez government has ordered more than 988 expropriations of foreign and domestic companies. Experts estimate the total costs of major nationalizations since 2006 - aside from seized land, farms, sugar mills or industrial facilities - at $23.3 billion.
  2. Attacks on the Press

    ISSUES:

    Attacks on the Press

    The Venezuelan government systematically suppresses dissenting political opinions in the press. Since 2007, at least three TV networks and 34 radio stations have been shut down by the government. In addition, privately-owned newspapers are constantly under threat or face temporary shutdowns if they do not practice self-censorship.
  3. Abuse of Power

    ISSUES:

    Abuse of Power

    Venezuela's judicial and legislative branches of government have become rubber stamps for all policies driven by President Hugo Chávez. Anybody who dares challenge the President’s authority faces harassment at best and legal charges at worst.
  4. Interventionism

    ISSUES:

    Interventionism

    President Hugo Chávez has no qualms about sending Venezuela’s “petrodollars” abroad to his friends. Chávez has bankrolled Nicaragua and provided oil at cut-rate prices to various countries, most notably Cuba. The Chávez government has also been accused numerous times of supporting terrorist groups in other countries.

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Posted on January 27, 2012

In Case You Missed It… Articles Roundup Week of 1/27/12

In this week roundup: Leopoldo López withdraws from the Venezuelan opposition primaries and throws his support behind frontrunner Henrique Capriles Radonski, a man who TIME speculates may be the one to defeat Hugo Chávez this fall. Meanwhile, Chávez formally requests to leave the World Bank’s international arbitration forum; rampant crime further dampens Venezuela’s business climate; rumors persist that Chávez has less than a year to live; and finally, President Chávez’s daughter ignites a social media uproar by posting a picture of herself posing with a wad of dollar bills. And then there were five, The Economist The campaign to decide who will square off against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela’s October presidential election...

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