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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.