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Since Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, he and his political ambitions proved to be controversial.. President Hugo Chávez in 2010. Under Chávez, oil revenues in the 2000s brought funds not seen in Venezuela since the 1980s, with Chávez's government becoming "semi-authoritarian and hyper-populist", investing heavily in public works which initially benefited Venezuelans.
Television stations in Venezuela have hardly displayed live coverage of protests and had resulted in many opposition viewers moving to CNN in 2014. [ 285 ] Years later on 14 February 2017, President Maduro ordered cable providers to take CNN en Español off the air, days after CNN aired an investigation into the alleged fraudulent issuing of ...
While protests first occurred in January, after the murder of actress and former Miss Venezuela Mónica Spear, [36] [37] the 2014 protests against Nicolás Maduro began in earnest that February following the attempted rape of a student [38] on a university campus in San Cristóbal. Subsequent arrests and killings of student protesters spurred ...
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In the city of Valencia, police fired tear gas at protesters, according to Reuters. In western Caracas, 70-year-old Niegalos Payares told the news agency that "I'm not afraid, I lost my fear a ...
The president said Venezuela's "law will be respected”. The election was seen as the toughest challenge yet for Mr Maduro who has been in power since the death of his mentor Hugo Chavez in 2013.
22 March – Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated throughout Venezuela in the cities of Caracas, Mérida, Barquisimeto, San Cristóbal, Zulia, Cumaná, Valencia, Bolívar and Coro. [210] Caracas had one of the largest demonstrations where thousands of opposition protesters gathered in a protest called "Por la Libertad". [211]
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 ...