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The election and protests occurred amid the Venezuelan crisis – ongoing since 2010 – which resulted in the largest peacetime exodus in history culminating in 7.7 million refugees in the Venezuelan diaspora from the Venezuelan refugee crisis according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
[16] [17] Congressmen from Democratic Action, Copei and Project Venezuela protested the measure, which they called a coup d'état, and called for an emergency session in the Federal Palace. Aristóbulo Istúriz , president of the Constituent Assembly warned them that "the people would shut them down" if they tried to do so. [ 18 ]
[64] 11 Latin American countries proposed the resolution including Mexico, Canada and Argentina. [65] On 23 January 2019, El Tiempo revealed a protest count, showing over 50,000 registered protests in Venezuela since 2013. [66] In 2020, organized protests against Maduro had largely subsided, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela ...
[14] On 5 July 1987, Lusinchi made an address on Independence Day, accusing protesters of being involved in a plot to destabilize the nation. [12] By the end of July 1987, two protesters were dead and 73 were injured. [12] A university strike began in January 1988 when faculty demanded wage increases to counter the 40% inflation rate of 1987. [12]
The statement that upended Venezuela came 24 hours after polls closed in the presidential election. With the reassuring tone of someone who has consistently been considered an underdog, opposition ...
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 2018 documentary film El país roto, directed by Melissa Silva Franco, features interviews to Resistencia members. [3] In 2019, Venezuelan journalist and writer Carleth Morales published the book 26 crímenes y una crónica. Quién mató a la resistencia en Venezuela (lit. ' 26 crimes and a chronicle. Who killed the resistance in Venezuela ').
January 10 - An investigative report by the newspaper El Nacional explaining the whitewashing of the profile of the Morón Hernández brothers to convince the US treasury to lift the sanctions they made in July 2020 for their links with Nicolás Maduro and his son Nicolasito for the illegal sale of gold and coltan. [16]