Controversial Issues

Venezuela

Type of government:

Venezuela is a federal presidential republic. The chief executive is the President of Venezuela who is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly.

How long has the population lived this way?

Venezuela has been a republic since 1953.

What have been the effects on economy, culture and society? 

The three-digit inflation in which the country is immersed and of which we have not had official data for more than six months, is however measured day by day in the experience of each of the citizens. Going up prices for specific "staple" products requires government authorization, which translates to those products (things like rice, flour, milk, or toiletries) being artificially low in price and not often listed on the shelves (in fact, their rotation is so high that employees don't bother putting them on the shelves, they just leave them on the pallets in the middle of the aisle, and disappear within a few minutes). For all these products, there is a black market, people who obtain an official price (either by making long queues at dawn to buy the allowed quota, or through other less legal ways) and then resells them at a significant price premium. They are called "bachaqueros".

Another obvious consequence of controls on the free market is the omnipresence of queues. By now, any Venezuelan is already used to the notion that the mayor will spend part of his day waiting in line for anything: for any purchase, procedure or diligence he needs to do.

BAD EATING HABITS

UAEM students eating habits

Eating habits, also known as diet, is the set of food substances that are ingested forming nutritional habits or behaviors of human beings and is part of their lifestyle.

Not eating breakfast, consuming a lot of soft drinks, abusing light foods, eating too fast or being guided by false eating myths, are some of the bad eating habits that we often repeat daily. Acquiring bad eating habits is easier than we imagine, even many times we are not aware that our eating habits are incorrect. In Mexico, bad eating habits are very common in our country, since there is no food education, few people have a correct diet.

Some of the bad eatings habits are:

- Not having breakfast
- Not drinking enough water
- Eating too fast
- Constantly eating fast food

Here are some tips of how to avoid bad eating habits to end obesity.

- Limit consumption of fried foods. Instead we will try to cook with other less harmful techniques such as the oven, steam or the iron.














- Avoid consuming unhealthy snacks, we can substitute potatoes, candy, bread, for a portion of fruit, nuts or a small portion of salad.











- Exercise with a minimum duration of 30 minutes, this will keep our digestive system active, managing to avoid such high levels of colesterol.

- Drink at least 2 liters of water per day. 

-Maintaining a good diet and exercising will help you feel better outside and inside.

Sample entry

MEXICAN EATING HABITS

Mexican people eat tacos al pastor on friday nights.
I like to do the same.

Mexican people use to drink beer every friday.
I just drink beer twice a month .

Mexican people eat fried quesadillas.
I prefer to eat them without so much oil.

Mexican people drink coke every day.
I drink coke just once a week.

Reflection: We mexicans don´t eat very healthy, but it´s a fact that we eat very delicious.