Venezuela and United States Relations

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Relations between Venezuela and the United States

Plan : To create a speech /presentation about Venezuela-United States relations , with a focus on the regime of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

: Relations between Venezuela and the United States , with a focus on the Chavez administration

Purpose : To be able to analyze the roots of the current state of Venezuela-United States relations as well as its future , given the existence of the Chavez government

To say that relations between Venezuela and the United States are very

shaky is already an understatement . This is because the foreign policy of the US in Latin America is a rhetorically concealed fusion between popular elections and imperial appointments (Landau 29 . The US has a long history of overthrowing Latin American governments that show even the slightest hint of favoring the poor . As soon as they get word about a pro-poor Latin American leader , the US government would flex its political , economic and military muscles in to replace him or her with a pro-US head of state

The end of the Cold War did not change this scenario . Since 1999 , seven Latin American leaders were overthrown due to their pro-US stance Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigned from the Bolivian presidency in 2005 due to massive popular revolts over his pro-US economic strategies Paraguay 's Raul Cubas stepped down in 1999 due to charges of corruption and involvement in the assassination of Vice President Luis Maria Argana . Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad was toppled from...