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The 2024 Venezuelan political crisis refers to the ongoing crisis in Venezuela that was aggravated after the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election results were announced. [1] [2] [3] The 2024 election was held to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025.
The 2024 Venezuelan protests followed the 2024 presidential election on 28 July, in response to voter fraud and other irregularities during the election cycle, as part of the 2024 Venezuelan political crisis. The election and unrest occurred in the context of the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.
8 September – Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says González departed Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. [87] 12 September – The United States government imposes sanctions on 16 allies of president Maduro, accusing them of voter suppression and human rights ...
The Amuay tragedy was an explosion of the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Punto Fijo, Venezuela. The explosion resulted in the death of 48 people and injured 151 others. The explosion resulted in the death of 48 people and injured 151 others.
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Night of the Machetes: 1913 Amazonas state 65-400 [1] [2]: El Corozo massacre [3] [4]: 1942, 18 February El Corozo village, Trujillo state 12 50-year-old farmer Gregorio Cáceres kills eleven people and seriously injured four others with an ax and a knife in El Corozo, a village in Trujillo, in addition to killing several animals and then escaping in the jungle ...
Venezuela's murder rate decreased from 92 per 100,000 in 2016 to 81.4 in 2018, according to the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), due in part to criminals joining millions of other Venezuelans in fleeing the country. [15] The murder rate declined even further to 60.3 in 2019. [16]
The 2024 Venezuelan blackouts were a series of interruptions to Venezuela's electrical service nationwide. The interruptions began on 27 August with a blackout that affected 12 states in the country at around 7:12 pm VET, [1] [2] lasting until service restorations began at approximately 8:30 pm. [3] On 30 August, another blackout was recorded that left more than 20 states in the country ...
On 2 December 2020, the Organization of American States General Secretariat released a 145-page report expanding on the 2018 report by the Panel of Independent Experts that concluded there was a reasonable basis to believe crimes against humanity were being committed in Venezuela, noting that since 2018 the crimes against humanity in Venezuela ...