Causes of Economic Crisis
The government is $150 billion in this to other countries
What is debt?
This has increased in Venezuela
(Hint: a hardship that effects a majority of the population)
What is poverty?
An increase in narcotics here has led to an increase in trafficking in Central America and Mexico
What is the United States?
This has furthered incentives for Latin American governments to push action for decreasing drug violence
What is global pressure?
The drug wars in Latin America are similar to these in China- because the government in both countries tried to prevent drug use and trading of drugs
What is opium wars?
Money from the oil industry was excessively used by this organization (on free health care, education, and many other things)
What is the Venezuelan government?
This has increased due to poor medical care and lack of funds
What is infant mortality?
Tourist areas have seen an increase in this as a result of government interference
What is gang violence?
Combatting this may decrease drug violence
What is poverty?
A time in history when there was also a drastic decline in the economy, similar to that of Venezuela’s, as a result of the stock market crashing
What is The Great Depression?
The prices of these have increased in recent years
What is consumer goods?
Many people in Venezuela receive money from this
What is relatives who moved out of Venezuela?
This has increased in areas where trafficking is prevalent and increasing
What is drug consumption?
These were instituted and invested in by the Mexican government to prevent drug demand
What are social programs?
Which country also saw efforts to combat illegal drug use in the 1970s-80s with the “War on Drugs” movement?
What is the US?
Industry which was once thriving in Venezuela, but the drop in it has led to this crisis
What is oil production?
These violent acts against the government has increased
What are protests?
Drug cartel violence has led to an increase of what in Latin America
What are homicides?
What are kidnappings?
Decreasing this will reduce the strong political ties held by drug cartels
What is government corruption?
This country also suffered debt and a decline in their economy as a result of oil prices
What is Russia?
The government has been printing more of this
What is money?
The amount of these has increased to countries neighboring Venezuela
What is refugees?
The involvement of this group has led to further violence in Latin America in seeking to resolve drug wars
What is the military?
What is the police?
Which foreign nation invested billions in aid to combat the drug violence occurring in Latin America?
What is the US?
A region that also had a poor economy similar to Venezuela due to government negligence (In this case because of lack of industrialization)
What is China?
What is Russia?