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While covering protests on 14 May, a group of reporters said they were assaulted by the National Guard saying they were fired at and that the National Guard attempted to arrest a reporter. [116] On 27 May 2014, a reporter for La Patilla was attacked for the third time while covering clashes when he was shot by the National Guard. [117]
The Bolivarian National Police began using stun grenades on protesters in Chacao. [262] 3 April – The Colegio de Abogados de Venezuela went to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and denounced the imprisonment of public officials calling it a "kidnapping". [263]
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 ...
CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's attorney general said in a statement on Monday that 533 people arrested for taking part in protests over a contested July election have been freed. Electoral ...
Venezuela's opposition and many democratic governments around the world, including the US, have reject the result as fraudulent and recognised opposition candidate Edmundo González as the ...
Protesters sign saying, "Why do I protest? Insecurity, scarcity, injustices, repression, deceit. For my future." Demonstrations against violence in Venezuela began in January 2014, [29] and continued, when former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles shook the hand of President Maduro; [30] this "gesture... cost him support and helped propel" opposition leader Leopoldo López Mendoza to the ...
In the western oil city of Maracaibo an opposition protest of dozens of people was quickly dispersed by motorcycle-mounted security forces by late morning. In central Valencia, protesters were met ...
Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado, presenting La Salida. Juan Guaidó is behind.. La Salida (lit. ' The Exit ') was a Venezuelan opposition political campaign launched on 23 January 2014 that was based on civil disobedience in an effort to bring an end to the government of President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro.