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Venezuelan opposition march in the city of Caracas (12 February 2014).. The protests in Venezuela — also called by the opposition as 12F and La Salida— [15] [16] are a series of demonstrations against the socialist government of Venezuela headed by President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, which started on 12 February 2014, called by the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition María Corina ...
February 21 - 22-year-old Venezuelan beauty queen Génesis Carmona is shot in the head and killed while participating in a student protest against Nicolás Maduro's socialist government. February 21 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatens to expel CNN from the country, alleging that they are helping the opposition.
On 20 March 2014, the appearance of "red gas" first occurred when it was used in San Cristóbal against protesters, with reports that it was CN gas. [84] The first reported use of "green gas" was on 15 February 2014 against demonstrations in Altamira. [85] On 25 April 2014, "green gas" was reportedly used again on protesters in Mérida. [86]
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (AP) - Major Venezuelan cities have been roiled by violent protests in recent days but the unrest actually began far from the capital with a little-known incident on a ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Nicolas Maduro's government on Monday gave three U.S. Embassy officials 48 hours to leave the country, accusing the Obama administration of siding with student ...
Central University of Venezuela, the country's most prominent university, saw a large percentage of its educators leave the country. According to a 2014 report that Iván de la Vega wrote, about 1 million Venezuelans had emigrated during the Chávez presidency but the number of academics was unknown; [95] UCV lost more than 700 of its 4,000 ...
By 2014, Venezuela had entered an economic recession [80] and by 2016, the country had an inflation rate of 800%, the highest in its history. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] The crisis intensified under the Maduro government, growing more severe as a result of low oil prices in early 2015 , [ 8 ] and a drop in Venezuela's oil production from lack of maintenance ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A Venezuelan journalist was freed Monday, eight days after she was kidnapped by masked men in front of her house. Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres told a news ...