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Within Venezuela and in cities across the world, Venezuelans demonstrated on 17 August in support of the opposition's claim to González's election win. [70] Machado had called for the rally—the Great World Protest for the Truth (Gran Protesta Mundial por la Verdad) [ 71 ] —to demonstrate "respect for popular sovereignty" and reinforce the ...
In Maracaibo, the second largest city of Venezuela, protests were dispersed by police forces with tear gas and rubber bullets. [51] El Nacional reported how tear gas was thrown from helicopters. [52] Two lawmakers were also briefly detained in Maracaibo. [51] [52] The same day, Maduro called a rival march.
During his first year as president, López Contreras also faced a labor strike that paralyzed the oil industry in Zulia state, in western Venezuela, where the most productive fields were located. His representative there from the labor ministry, Carlos Ramírez MacGregor , made a report of the situation, which confirmed the workers’ grievances.
Venezuela recalls its diplomats in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay after those countries oppose the election results. [ 68 ] Panama suspends diplomatic relations with Venezuela and withdraws its diplomatic personnel from the country until a full review of the presidential election results is concluded.
Quién mató a la resistencia en Venezuela (lit. ' 26 crimes and a chronicle. Who killed the resistance in Venezuela '). The book features the testimonies of the relatives of 26 young Venezuelans killed during the 2017 protests. [4] [5] [6]
After a day of protests in Venezuela in 2014, which began on January 5 in the City of Mérida [19] [20] [21] and February 4 in the city of San Cristobal [22] after the death of Hector Moreno of ULA-Mérida and the attempted rape of a student-ULA Táchira, plus the street call made by national political leaders Antonio Ledezma, Maria Corina ...
Voter turnout was the lowest in Venezuela's modern history after the opposition boycotted the election out of protest. [ 34 ] 21 May – Venezuelans across the country participated in small protests against the election results, with the largest demonstration organized by Soy Venezuela occurring near the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air ...
A power struggle concerning who is the legitimate President of Venezuela began on 10 January 2019, when the opposition-majority National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 re-election was invalid; that the office of the President of Venezuela was therefore vacant; and declared its president, Juan Guaidó, to be acting president of the nation.