Examining the United States’ Debilitating Impact on the Venezuelan Economy
Format and Guidelines for Critiques 1) Your critiques must be in WORD and must be submitted electronically. The length of each critique should not be less that 1+1/2 pages and should be double spaced. The filename containing your critique must start with “C-#-” followed by your last name, “-”, and the last name of the author of the essay you are writing the critique for. Specifically, it should be labeled as follows:
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where “C” denotes “critique”, “#” describes the weekly topic (it should the number of the team the author of the essay belongs to), and “Peterson” is the last name of the author of the critique.
2) The critiques should be constructive and should aim to help members of the expert panel improve their essays by identifying possible weaknesses in reasoning, incompleteness of argument(s), relevance (or irrelevance) of presented facts, or important omissions from the literature on the topic.
At a minimum, critiques must be based on the assigned and (hopefully) additional readings. They should go beyond simple corrections of grammar and syntax. They should identify interesting policy inferences and/or implications, signal the possible originality (or not) of ideas, assess the clarity of presentation, and suggest convincing/compelling argumentation.
Please read the sample, and write the critique for the essay.
Thank you.
Team 1 Critique
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“Examining the United States’ Debilitating Impact on the Venezuelan Economy” by Marc Lobitz & Zane Alderfer
The essay intends to show how the United States of America has succeeded in suppressing Venezuela’s economic growth. The author begins the papers with a good introduction where they explain the broad meaning of globalization. By reading the introduction, an individual easily determines what to expect in the rest of the paper. Marc Lobitz and Zane Alderfer point out that globalization involves all the efforts that developed countries employ to facilitate economic growth in developing countries. The authors further point out that some countries in power, such as the U.S., do not always facilitate economic growth in other countries but rather suppress it. The thesis statement, “The sanctions and regulations debilitating this developing country will also be discussed to effectively paint the picture of the United States’ influence”, makes this clear. It creates a clear transition to show the reader what the essay is all about. Therefore, the reader expects to get more information on what the U.S. has done to suppress Venezuela’s economy.
The paper continues to effectively explain the tittle buy outlining the various sanctions that have been placed on Venezuela. The author also explains the economic impact of such sanctions in Venezuela. However, one shortfall in this section is how the authors explain the impact of the sanctions on the Venezuelans. They point out that the sanctions were placed in a manner that does not affect the wellbeing of the Venezuelans (CRS Reports). This raises the quest...