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During the 29 July protests, 2 people were killed (including a 15-year-old boy), 7 protesters were injured, and there were 3 unconfirmed gunshot-related deaths. [42] The Penal Forum issued a report where it counted 6 dead (among them a minor of 15 years of age), 132 wounded, 50 detained in different sectors of the country and three unconfirmed ...
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 ...
Police hurl a gas canister at protesters demonstrating against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro's reelection, the day after the vote, in Caracas on July 29.
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]
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A demonstrator with a Venezuelan flag on her face at a protest against Venezuela's electoral process in Miami on Aug. 3, 2024. (Chandan Khanna / AFP - Getty Images)
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 ...