Lopez’s only motivation was to oppose the current Venezuelan leadership. Venezuela has an overwhelmingly Catholic religious backing most importantly by the Pope. The Pope has various connections and it is questioned why the Pope didn’t make an immediate condemnation of the verdict. The Pope put many of the problems with this ordeal with the bishops. Archbishop Roberto Luckert Leon condemned the current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for expelling thousands of Colombians solely based off their difference of views. While, the Pope in the background, endorsed bishops including Archbishop Robert Luckert Leon from solving how to mitigate a big humanitarian crisis. The Pope is finally beginning to make a stand stating that he will not speak to the Venezuelan leader until human rights improve.
In conclusion Venezuelan’s political and social aspects are corrupt. Anyone who protests or tries to speak their minds get sent away. Mr Lopez is a prime example of this because the current Venezuelan leader accused him for being responsible of subliminally fomenting violence even though he was only about peace and finding a solution. If the Venezuelan government refuses to openly talk about why diplomatic human-right abuses can’t be discussed, the world hopes that the Pope will free Venezuela of allowing condemning sublimation.
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Venezuela has been quite interesting within the past 15 years, especially with their former leader, Hugo Chavez. They always had a lot of oil, and Chavez knew that. However, upon his death, things got quite bad in the country. According to a Bloomberg article (http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-27/how-hugo-chavez-trashed-latin-america-s-richest-economy) the annual inflation rate is currently 150%.
It is interesting that Pope Francis hasn't made any comment about this human rights infringement, especially because he is from Argentina. Venezuela has a long way to go to become a decently-run country. I do wonder if the Pope condemns the Venezuelan government if there will be any changes.
It is very interesting that the Pope has not addressed this issue as a human rights infringement as it clearly is. It is amazing hoe vast the implications are for countries that are rampant with corruption. Most of the time people only talk about the benefits for consumers when discussing corruption such as paying off an officer instead of paying a ticket, but the negative sides of corruption are much more vast than the benefits. As this prime example shows, it goes straight down to the people and the rights they have and takes them away if their beliefs do not go along with the leaders of the country. Corruption needs to be dealt with effectively to stop this mistreatment of people and restore the rights they deserve.
From an economic standpoint, Venezuela is on of the worlds largest producers of Oil and is an influential member of OPEC. Russian and Venezuelan officials have a meeting on 21st of October 2015 to discuss how they might tackle the recently declining prices in oil. You wonder how the government of Venezuelas authority over its own people can translate onto such a volatile global market if their people are being treated like this.
Venezuela has a long-standing history of corruption and intolerance that stems back before Hugo Chavez took power. Their current leader, Maduro, has been even worse than Chavez and continually imposes oppression on the Venezuelan people. Their economic system is so heavily reliant on oil, and the oil industry is publicly run by the government. Most jobs are for the PDVSA and therefore are controlled by the government as well.
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