Venezuela Today
This Venezuelan leader was captured by U.S. forces during “Operation Absolute Resolve.”
Who is Nicolás Maduro?
Venezuela has the world’s largest reserves of this resource.
What is oil?
What is Venezuela’s main source of income?
What are Oil exports
What is it called when a powerful country takes resources from a weaker country
What is Resource imperialism
The Niger Delta is located on which continent?
What is Africa?
After Maduro’s capture, Venezuela was placed under this type of control.
What is temporary U.S./international oversight?
Most of Venezuela’s oil is located in this region.
What is the Orinoco Belt?
To rebuild schools and hospitals Venezuela needs roughly this much money
What is 50-100 billion dollars
What resource do critics say the U.S. wants in Venezuela?
Oil companies extracted oil from the Niger Delta for many years.
What are multinational corporations?
Why was the U.S. military action controversial?
What is It happened without congressional approval
Why is Venezuelan oil considered “dirty”?
It requires massive energy (and emissions) just to get it out of the ground and refine it.
What environmental problem increases with higher oil production?
Pollution (or carbon emissions)
Who usually gets most of the profits in resource imperialism?
What are foreign companies or powerful nations
Name one environmental problem caused by oil extraction in the Niger Delta.
What are oil spills or gas flaring?
How could sudden regime change affect everyday people?
What are changes to jobs, prices, and government services
Why does heavy crude oil cause more pollution than light crude oil?
What is it takes more energy to extract and refine?
What types of questions arose after the capture of Maduro
What are questions regarding the reserves of natural resources