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According to the Association of Engineers of Zulia, there were 25 blackouts in two days in Zulia, between 17 and 18 October, because only 2,000 of the 3,000 megawatts needed to satisfy the electricity demand are produced, while an official of Corpoelec affirmed that the blackouts were due to the high temperatures, affecting several municipalities, including Maracaibo.
In Maracaibo, the second largest city of Venezuela, protests were dispersed by police forces with tear gas and rubber bullets. [51] El Nacional reported how tear gas was thrown from helicopters. [52] Two lawmakers were also briefly detained in Maracaibo. [51] [52] The same day, Maduro called a rival march.
The 2017 Venezuelan protests began in late January following the abandonment of Vatican-backed dialogue between the Bolivarian government and the opposition. The series of protests originally began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of criminal violence, inflation, and chronic scarcity of basic goods because of policies created by the ...
Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero (born 12 December 1952, in Santa Bárbara del Zulia) [1] is a Venezuelan educator and politician, current governor of Zulia.He was the most prominent Venezuelan opposition candidate in the 2006 presidential election, [2] losing to incumbent Hugo Chávez.
The history of colectivos predates the presidency of Hugo Chávez. [22] Colectivos emerged during the 1960s from urban guerrilla warfare in metropolitan Venezuela, and made a return during Chávez's tenure [5] [23] when he created their parent organizations, known as Bolivarian Circles. [24]
Jesús Enrique Lossada is a municipality in the metropolitan area of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city. Jesús Enrique Lossada covers an area of 3,533 square kilometres (1,364 sq mi) [1] and recorded a population of 118,756 in the 2011 Venezuelan census. [2]
Alexander Medina of Radio Fe y Alegría, meanwhile, was surrounded by authorities in San Fernando, Apure who threatened to lynch the reporter. [ 146 ] During protests on 8 May, there were 19 reports of attacks on journalists, with 5 instances involving protesters attempting to rob reporters, while the other 15 reports involved Venezuelan ...