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At least 2,000 people had been arrested as of 7 August; Clara del Campo of Amnesty International said that number included over 100 teens. [125] Prior to the 17 August Great World Protest for the Truth , France 24 reported that Maduro called for the "state to use an 'iron fist' [and] urged 'severe justice' for violence he blames on the opposition".
On 16 November, nationwide rallies were carried out with a turnout of thousands of supporters in Caracas and in Maracaibo. [ b ] [ 1 ] "Today, tomorrow and Monday — we will be in the streets", said Guaidó in his speech in the Altamira district in Caracas, mentioning the 18 days of protests that prompted Bolivian president Evo Morales to ...
2018 protests in Venezuela began in the first days of January as a result of high levels of hunger by desperate Venezuelans. Within the first two weeks of the year, hundreds of protests and looting incidents occurred throughout the country. [1]
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 ...
6 March – Francisco Miranda Avenue near Parque del Este and Parque Cristal in Caracas were blocked by protesters in the evening hours. [ 83 ] 8 March – While commemorating International Women's Day in Caracas, mothers along with their husbands and children participated in a march led by María Corina Machado, condemning Resolution 8610. [ 84 ]
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.
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]
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [2] [3] The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair, [4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during, [2] [5] and after the ...