Family Values
In Venezuela, this is the cornerstone of the social structure and forms the basis of stability for most people.
What is the family?
The percentage of Venezuelans currently serving in the Venezuelan military.
What is 0.4% or 128,000?
The requirement for citizens aged 18-60 in Venezuela for a minimum of 12 months.
What is register for military service?
Who is Nicolas Maduro?
96% of Venezuelan families are this religion.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The individual derives a social network and assistance in times of need from this group.
What is extended family?
This is approximate income of a lieutenant in the Venezuelan military.
What is $18/month?
These are the two political elites battling for executive political power over Venezuela.
Who are Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaido?
This practice is considered legal, but marriage between two practicing members is not.
What is homosexuality?
The strong sense of masculine pride or exaggerated masculinity in Venezuela.
What is Machismo?
For Venezuelans, many families pay homage to a matrilineal line of ancestors to emphasize the importance of this nuclear family member.
Who is the mother?
The US imposed consequence for high ranking Venezuelan military officials choosing to side with the Maduro Regime.
What is forced deportation of Venezuelan military families from the US back into Venezuela?
The types of violent interactions taking place between civilians and the military as a result of protests against the Maduro Regime.
What is firing on protesters, violet altercations, arrests and interrogations?
These interrogation tactics have been employed to prevent military personnel from joining opposition forces.
What are electrocution and asphyxiation?
Of the 3.2 million housing units in Venezuela, 800,000 of these are classified as this.
What is inadequate?
In Venezuela, this is an accepted practice and is considered a good thing, since it implies that employing people one knows and trusts is of primary importance.
What is nepotism?
In response to the economic and political crisis taking place in Venezuela, military personnel have experienced higher rates of this.
What is separation, divorce, and financial instability?
53% percent of Venezuelans have little to no confidence in this institution.
What is the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela?
Military personnel can receive 30 to 50 years of prison for this crime.
What is speaking out against the Maduro Regime?
In the highly unstable family life of Venezuelans, this percentage of couples are informal unions that account for this percentage of all births.
What is 32% and 52%?
In Venezuelan marriages, these norms dictate whom one ought to marry.
What is marrying up to a higher social class or marrying someone of the same race or "whiter"?
The amount of responsibility shifted to remaining personnel after nearly half of Venezuela's military has defected from the Maduro Regime to date.
What is remaining military personnel having to perform the work of 4-5 people for below poverty level wages?
80% of Venezuela's rural residents live at this level of economic prosperity.
What is below the poverty level?
This approach is being employed by President Guaido and his following to oust Maduro's government and win control over the country.
Offering the military amnesty.
This percentage of households are headed by low income women.
What is 20%?