How did the Venezuelan Crisis Start? Resources

Teaching about the crisis in Venezuela.  Here are some resources that explain the origins of the crisis and what's going on now.

The stories below explain the origins of the crisis. The essays from Origins and Al Jazeera are particularly good and include charts and graphs.

• ABC News has a good story with which includes a video clip.
• Al Jazeera has a great essay about the origins of the crisis called Venezuela's crisis explained from the beginning
• The Council for Foreign Relations has a story called Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate 
• Origins from Ohio State University has a terrific essay called The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
• Foreign Policy has an interesting story called How Venezuela Struck it Poor
• Vox also has a story about the beginning of the crisis called How Venezuela went from a rich democracy to a dictatorship on the brink of collapse
• The Guardian explains the origins of the crisis in this story called, Venezuela on the brink: a journey through a country in crisis

What's happening now?

• Here's an editorial in the Washington Post in which the authors, Marixa Lasso, and Tomás Straka, argue that that one cannot understand the Venezuelan crisis without understanding the Cold War and even the Haitian Revolution. It's called The crisis in Venezuela is not about the U.S. 
• The New Yorker has a story about the developing food crisis in Venezuela called Venezuela’s Food Crisis Reaches a Breaking Point. 
• Foreign Policy has an editorial called It’s Time for a Coup in Venezuela.
• The New York Times explains how the food crisis escalated in this story called How Food in Venezuela went from Subsidized to Scarce

Video Clips

Here are two clips, one from the PBS NewsHour and one from The Daily Conversation, along with a longer (28 minutes) documentary from Al-Jazeera.