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<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> How does one write the nation's modernity as the event of the everyday and the advent of the epochal? The laniDiage of national belo...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Modernization theory provided post-war society in the West and especially the US with a temporal and spatial identity an identity...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> As we have seen in the previous chapter the emergence of the United States as a global power went together with a projection of not...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Frederick Jackson Turner (1962: 37-8) in his 1893 essay on the frontier in American history argued that the process of settlement ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In the beginning colonialism was a product of a systematic repression not only of the specific beliefs ideas images symbols or k...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The category of the coloniality of power is not of course without its defects. But it has fewer than others as well as having som...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> These questions are provoked by Arendt's brilliant suggestiveness for her writing symptomatically performs the perplexities she evo...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Coloniality is different from colonialism. Colonialism denotes a political and economic relation in which the sovereignty of a natio...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In a recent work Arturo Escobar (2003) makes the argument for the need to take seriously the epistemic force of local histories and...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> It is not an accident that the conceptualization of the world-system from decolonial perspectives of the South will question its tr...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> As Quijano suggested above a key element of this modern classificatory model of power is the binary articulation of a new planetary...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Coloniality as both a concept and lived reality provides a foundational context for understanding this 'other' intellectual producti...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> IT is MY perception that the shape of the signifying process as it applies to indigenous peoples is formed by a certain semiotic fie...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The idea that humanity is universally defined by the separation from nature first emerged in seventeenthcentury Europe and developed...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Such invasion of the human spirit such painful process of forced adherence and identification with the oppressor’s version of the w...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Coloniality of power was conceived together with America and Western Europe and with the social category of 'race' as the key eleme...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Monstrosity? Literary meteorite? Delirium of a sick imagination? Come now! How convenient it is! The truth is that Lautreamont had ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> However that specific colonial structure of power produced the specific social discriminations which later were codified as ‘racial...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The White and the Black the European and the Oriental the colonizer and the colonized are all representations that function only i...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In the logic of colonialist representations the construction of a separate colonized other and the segregation of identity and alte...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> At the political and administrative levels the governing structures colonial imperialists established in the colonies many of whic...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The postcolonial perspective departs from the traditions of the sociology of underdevelopment or the 'dependency' theory. As a mode ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Postcolonial criticism bears witness to the unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation involved in the contest for politic...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Furthermore and very much linked to issues of representation a postcolonial perspective would question the geographies of referenc...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Thus it can be argued that whereas within the frame of global politics there is more interdependence the pace of cultural communic...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> As I end let me return to the beginning of my article to the fallen towers and falling idols. What has befallen the ideals and the ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> How does the deconstruction of the sign the emphasis on indeterminism in cultural and political judgment transform our sense of th...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Fanon also states that the dreams of the colonized constantly turn towards the desire to take the place of the colonizer. This desir...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> War is the opposite of the anarchical relation of absolute responsibility for the Other that gives birth to human subjectivity. The ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Under the spell of neo-liberalism and the magic of the media promoting it modernity and modernization together with democracy are...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The last statement may sound somewhat messianic but it is nonetheless an orientation that in the first decade of the twenty-first ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> From such a colonial encounter between the white presence and its black semblance there emerges the question of the ambivalence of ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The discourse of post-Enlightenment English colonialism often speaks in a tongue that is forked not false. If colonialism takes pow...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The idea of totality in general is today questioned and denied in Europe not only by the perennial empiricists but also by an enti...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Yet in cultural terms the nation is perhaps an even more ambiguous phenomenon than it has been in the past and this is particularly...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Globalization studies political-economy paradigms and world-system analysis with only a few exceptions have not derived the epist...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The assumption of a totalizing perspective and the focus on resistance and historic agency are two aspects that distinguish this wor...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Pedagogically it is important for my argument to conceptualize “modernity/coloniality” as two sides of the same coin and not as two...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Far from offering an adequate way of understanding the complex U.S. race and ethnic relations such a multicultural model explains a...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> A “material genealogy” of postcolonialism is to reiterate the point upon which we began complicated by the disparity between its g...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> But this apparent emptying out of the nation as a historically emancipatory space has not at least on the phenomenological level e...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The unwillingness to engage in this sort of sorting exercise which might expose definite “sides” to a struggle has evoked charges o...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Since on one level the 'post' signifies 'after ' it potentially inhibits forceful articulations of what one might call 'neocolonia...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Before such questions can be raised however it is necessary to pay some critical attention to the mobility that has accrued in the...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> As a result postcolonial critics' refusal to define postcolonial theory in an unambiguous manner might not necessarily point to div...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The concept of the margin versus the center in postcolonial criticism constructed upon Derrida's critique of logocentrism allows t...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The postcolonial critic's personal search in this way masks a lack of calling or significance. The stakes are considerable: personal...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The hegemonic structures and conceptual frameworks generated over the last five hundred years cannot be vanquished by waving the mag...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The embattled and embalmed narrative of civilizational clash is often deployed to justify the reckless destruction of civilians who ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> [L]ike language the nation is an invariable which cuts across modes of production . . . . We should not become obsessed by the dete...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> To these notions and in order to assert the principles on which the integrity of nation and empire are based Johnson returns the s...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> I consider postcolonialism as the cultural logic of this mixture and multilayering of forms taken as an essential ethos of late mode...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Viewed from the perspective of late-capitalist political economy the figures of difference fragmentation liminality and diaspora ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In fact even if he saw himself as the Columbus of the unconscious the founder of psychoanalysis never refers specifically to the r...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The history of the West and the history of the non-West are by now irrevocably different and irrevocably shared. Both have shaped an...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> To pose the crisis of democracy in terms of its unrealized ideals does not adequately challenge the failures of its promise. ‘Fallin...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> From the 'post-structuralist' perspective assumed earlier we can see that this theory presupposes that letters arrive at their dest...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In essence the most blatant flaw of postcolonial orthodoxy (I use the rubric to designate the practice of Establishment postcolonia...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The subaltern group is deprived of historical [dominance] and initiative. it is often in a state of continuous but disorganic expans...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> These paradoxes incite a certain ambivalence and anxiety about freedom in which we dwell especially uncomfortably today. The pursuit...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> “[W]hat the Left needs is a postindividualist concept of freedom for it is still over questions of freedom and equality that the de...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> For some fueled by opprobrium toward regulatory norms or other modalities of domination the language of 'resistance' has taken up ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Diplomatically positive engagement with Venezuela would be a major step toward building American credibility in the world at large...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> (Reuters) - Venezuela's recent designation of an acting head of its diplomatic mission in the United States shows the OPEC nation's ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that “Venezuela is currently struggling with a lack of foreign exchange which has put signi...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> But I particularly wanted to make the point to this audience and to circulate to a wider audience certain points about climate chang...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> While the U.S. State Department isn't holding its collective breath it would like to see better relations between the two countries...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Meanwhile Iran is testing the line in the Middle East. On its current trajectory the Islamic Republic will become a nuclear weapon...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> U.S. officials are cautiously optimistic that the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez could improve relations between the two countries...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Diplomatically positive engagement with Venezuela would be a major step toward building American credibility in the world at large ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> But I particularly wanted to make the point to this audience and to circulate to a wider audience certain points about climate chang...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Professor Anthony Bryant a senior fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies explains...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Over half of Venezuela's federal budget revenues come from its oil industry which also accounts for 95 percent of the country's exp...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Venezuela is one of the world's largest exporters of crude oil and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The oil sector is of centr...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The crude realities: America uses approximately 19 million to 20 million barrels of oil per day almost half of which is imported. I...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> RIO DE JANEIRO Mar 18 2013 (IPS) - Venezuela’s economic challenges more than the uncertainty over who will succeed late president ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Regardless of the succession under the current U.S. policy Cuba’s problems of a post Castro transformation only worsen. In additio...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Until recently the primary U.S. concern about Brazil¶ has been that it might acquire nuclear weapons and¶ delivery systems. In the ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Brazil and Argentinas actions to reverse their nuclear programs are generally cited as a success story for nonproliferation. However...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> In Washington U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that the Obama administration is worried about the spectre of ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> How exactly could Brazil go about building nuclear weapons? The answer unfortunately is that it would be relatively easy. A precon...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> People around the globe believe that China will inevitably replace the United States as the world’s leading superpower but that doe...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> During the first weekend of June U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in California to discuss cyber es...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The U.S. Secretary to the Treasury should investigate the U.S. and IFIs debt portfolios in order to determine if portions of a given...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The damage that neoliberal globalization has done to human lives and to the non-human environment raises profound questions about th...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> But their loans add to the debt burden and come with conditions. Governments have to agree to impose very strict economic programs o...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The case of Venezuela provides an illustration of the role of structural adjustment in producing increased domestic conflict a weake...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Taking on further debts is likely to be one of Venezuela's mechanisms to feed the Ancillary Foreign Currency Administration System (...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> THE West's claim that its sanctions are targeted at the Zanu-PF leadership in Zimbabwe have been exposed for the sham they are by a ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Any local economy that is integrated into the global economy is exposed to the vicissitudes of world trade. for example SAPs’ promo...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Feliciano Guzmán of the Worker’s Federation of Bolivar State (Fetrabolivar) says that “Under previous governments these productive...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Venezuela’s economy went into recession in the first quarter of 2009 which lasted for five quarters ¶ until the second quarter of ...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Since the Venezuelan Executive Office has forced state-run oil company Pdvsa to fund a large number of government programs and proje...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Venezuela still has a relatively low debt burden. The most common measure of debt is the ratio of ¶ debt to GDP.3 By this measure t...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> For 2011 interest payments on the central government external debt are 3.4 percent of export ¶ earnings. they are projected to rise...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> For most of the past 13 years much of the discussion of Venezuela’s economy has either assumed ¶ or concluded that it was headed fo...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> CARACAS March 2 (Reuters) - The increasingly heavy debts of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA are hindering the OPEC nation's eff...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> The death of Hugo Chavez presents an opportunity for the new Venezuelan leadership to tone down the rhetoric of anti-Americanism and...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> “The oil sector is in deep trouble in Venezuela – production is down and the economic situation is deteriorating ” explained Shifter...
<s>[INST] Construct an argument in XML format made of an argument claim (<claim>....</claim>) and selected passages from the source text (<psg>...</psg>). Use the source passage: <source> Among oil executives and analysts there was cautious optimism that Mr. Chávez’s death could soften the hostility his government had...