eetores-due-sunday

Answer one thoroughly. Respond to two of your classmates.

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1. What policies did Juan Vicente Gómez implement and how did they affect Venezuela’s development?

2. How did a growing middle class, students, women, and workers respond to the Gómez dictatorship?

3. What roles did women play in Venezuela’s national development?

4. How did the policies of the postwar military dictatorship compare to those of Gómez?

5. Explain the importance of the Pact of Punto Fijo in modern Venezuelan history.

6. What were the policies of the Conservative Republic in Colombia and how did they affect Colombia’s national development?

7. How did the Great Depression and World War II affect Colombia’s development?

8. Describe the origins and development of “La Violencia.” What was the significance of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s role in the modern history of Colombia?

9. Why could the political system of late-twentieth-century Venezuela or Colombia be called a “controlled” or “restricted” democracy?