Venezuela

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About
Venezuela is a country in South America which has become controversial (at least within the 🇺🇸) for a number of reasons.

They are a major source of oil (one of the five founding members of ; they own ).

Chavez administration
was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.
 * Chavez was heavily critical of 🇺🇸 foreign policy.
 * His administration increasingly clamped down on civil rights, including free speech
 * 2002: the administration announced an official policy requiring the use of only open-source software in all government agencies (including the government-owned oil industry) within two years

Reference

 * 2013 election:
 * Al Jazeera
 * 2013 election:
 * Al Jazeera
 * 2013 election:
 * Al Jazeera

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 * 2014-02-25 Is Venezuela Burning? "The reality is both very different and far more complex. Venezuela, after all, is a society that declared war on neoliberalism fifteen years ago."
 * 2014-02-24 US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela (video, 11:32)
 * 2014-02-23 Rival protests continue in Venezuela: "Supporters of President Nicholas Maduro fear a right-wing coup being staged against the country's Socialist leader."
 * 2014-02-22 News From Venezuela–but Where Is It Coming From?: discusses the 2/20 "The Game Changed" article. "since Hugo Chavez's first election in 1998, Venezuela's government has faced intense opposition, and despite this opposition, the government has repeatedly won elections that have been deemed free and fair. US journalists tend to identify with the opposition, which is generally wealthier and better educated & ndash; and not incidentally whiter – than government supporters."
 * 2014-02-20
 * Toward a nuanced, feminist discussion on Venezuela
 * The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch
 * some commentary on credibility of various sources here (in comments)
 * 2014-02-19 Dialogue or Coups
 * 2014-02-14 Venezuela threatens to expel CNN over protest coverage
 * 2002-04-21 Venezuela coup linked to Bush team