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The 2021 Apure clashes started on 21 March 2021 [14] in the south of the Páez Municipality, in the Apure state in Venezuela, specifically in La Victoria, a location bordering with Colombia, between guerrilla groups identified as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) dissidents and the Venezuelan government led by Nicolás Maduro.
The election and protests occurred amid the Venezuelan crisis – ongoing since 2010 – which resulted in the largest peacetime exodus in history culminating in 7.7 million refugees in the Venezuelan diaspora from the Venezuelan refugee crisis according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
There are around 1,600,000 Venezuelans of Arab origin, mainly from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. [1] Most Arab Venezuelans are of Syrian descent with their number between 400,000 and 1 million inhabitants, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Lebanese descent with their number between 341,000 [ 4 ] and 500,000.
The flight of former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has largely extinguished hope for political change, voters say, as long-time President Nicolas Maduro shrugs off ...
Venezuela's opposition says its leader María Corina Machado was briefly arrested and then freed after addressing a protest rally on the eve of President Nicolás Maduro's disputed inauguration.
She has noticed people have begun leaving the country again, including four of her neighbors who migrated at the end of September. More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled their country, mostly ...
In January 2019, a Venezuelan was killed after fights between Venezuelans and Peruvians in the district of Chao (La Libertad). [74] In the same month there were clashes between Venezuelans protesting in front of their country's embassy in Lima and Peruvian citizens who demanded that their government close the borders. [75]
Relatives of people arrested during protests in Venezuela over the country's contested presidential election are calling for their release outside police headquarters as political tensions in the ...