- Identify your topic – Economic Indicators and Infrastructure of Venezuela and its relation to the current crisis.
- Explain why your topic is of interest and significance to you and to the field:
- Identify specific questions you wish to answer.
- Explain Background, history, and current economy within Venezuela.
- How did Venezuela go from being the wealthiest country in South America to one of the largest failures in modern day economic history.
- Explain why Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but its production is less now than it was in the 1970s.
- Explain how unemployment has reached 44 percent.
- How has the current leadership within Venezuela added to the economic fallout?
- Is the current Western/Non-Western involvement directly correlated to the current crisis?
- What does the future of Venezuela look like?