{"id":2924,"date":"2013-07-23T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=2924"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:46:42","slug":"chapter-discussion-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-8-venezuela\/chapter-discussion-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>If Venezuela was merely an outpost for the Spanish empire in America, why and how did Caracas become such a significant city?<\/li>\n<li>Define the tradition of <i>caudillismo<\/i>, and explain how it applies to Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>What was the \u201cRoosevelt Corollary,\u201d and what were its messages?<\/li>\n<li>What were the social and political consequences of Venezuela\u2019s reliance on petroleum exports throughout the twentieth century?<\/li>\n<li>What explains the demise of Venezuela\u2019s two-party system between the 1960s and the 1990s?<\/li>\n<li>What conditions led to the political rise of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez? Was he an opportunist or a revolutionary? How will the country be affected by his death in March 2013?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Venezuela was merely an outpost for the Spanish empire in America, why and how did Caracas become such a significant city? Define the tradition of caudillismo, and explain how it applies to Venezuela. What was the \u201cRoosevelt Corollary,\u201d and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-8-venezuela\/chapter-discussion-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":356,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2924","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2924\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}