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2014 Venezuelan Protests
In 2014, a series of protests, political demonstrations, and civil insurrection began in Venezuela due to the country's high levels of urban violence, inflation, and chronic shortages of basic goods attributed to economic policies such as strict price controls. Mass protesting began in earnest in February following the attempted rape of a student on a university campus in San Cristóbal. Subsequent arrests and killings of student protesters spurred their expansion to neighboring cities and the involvement of opposition leaders. The year's early months were characterized by large demonstrations and violent clashes between protesters and government forces that resulted in nearly 4,000 arrests and 43 deaths, including both supporters and opponents of the government. Background Since Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, he and his political ambitions proved to be controversial. Under Chávez, oil revenues in the 2000s brought funds not seen in Venezuela since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protests Against Nicolás Maduro
In 2014, a series of protests, political demonstrations, and civil insurrection began in Venezuela due to the country's high levels of urban violence, inflation, and chronic shortages of basic goods and services. Explanations for these worsening conditions vary, with analysis blaming strict price controls, alongside long-term, widespread political corruption resulting in the under-funding of basic government services. While protests first occurred in January, after the murder of actress and former Miss Venezuela Mónica Spear, 2014 Venezuelan protests, the 2014 protests against Nicolás Maduro began in earnest that February following the attempted rape of a student on a university campus in San Cristóbal, Táchira, San Cristóbal. Subsequent arrests and killings of student protesters spurred their expansion to neighboring cities and the involvement of opposition leaders. The year's early months were characterized by large demonstrations and violent clashes between protesters and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Patriotic Pole
The Simón Bolívar Great Patriotic Pole (, GPPSB), or just the Great Patriotic Pole (, GPP), is a left-wing socialist and Chavista electoral alliance/ popular front of Venezuelan political parties created in 2012 to support the re-election of Hugo Chávez in the 2012 presidential election. Members The GPP is currently composed of the following political parties: Election results Parliamentary Presidential Regional Municipal See also * Democratic Unity Roundtable – the opposing electoral alliance * Popular Revolutionary Alternative – a breakaway electoral alliance *Kilusang Bagong Lipunan Notes Also includes some centre-left parties and one right-wing party, but is dominated by the left-wing other than on social policies such as abortion and LGBT rights. References External linksgranpolopatriotico.org.ve{{Venezuelan political parties 2011 establishments in Venezuela Anti-Zionism in South America Far-left politics in Venezuela Hugo Chávez Left-wing po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Capriles
Henrique Capriles Radonski (; born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda (state), Miranda from 2008 to 2017. Born in Caracas, he received a degree in law from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and later in tax law from the Central University of Venezuela. He first ventured into politics at age 26, when he became the youngest member ever elected to the Venezuelan parliament. He secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Venezuela, Chamber of Deputies in the 1998 Venezuelan parliamentary election, 1998 parliamentary elections, under the Christian Democratic Party (Copei). He served as vice president of the Congress and president of the Chamber of Deputies until their dissolution by the 1999 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, Constituent Assembly in August 1999. In 2000, he co-founded the political party Primero Justicia, alongside politicians Julio Borges and Leopoldo Lopez, and ran successfully for the may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblema Primero Justicia
Emblema may mean: * Emblema (motif), a central motif in a panel in a Greek or Roman mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ... * ''Emblema'' (bird), a genus of finches {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Requesens
Juan Requesens Martínez is a deputy of the Venezuelan National Assembly, elected in 2015 and sworn in on 5 January 2016. He was a student leader at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), and a leader of student opposition protesters during the 2014 Venezuelan protests. He led marches opposing the Government of Venezuela under President Nicolás Maduro, seeking "to turn the student rebellion into a broader social movement". Requesens was arrested in August 2018 but was released on 28 August 2020. In 2022, he was charged eight years in prison for his alleged participation in the Caracas drone attack. He was released in October 2023 in a deal between the Venezelan government and the United States after the latter nation agreed to ease sanctions on Venezuela. Student politics In 2011, Requesens was elected the student president of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he began his political endeavors, studying political science. Requesens began demonstrations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Corina Machado
María Corina Machado Parisca (born 7 October 1967) is a Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer who is currently Venezuelan opposition, opposition leader in Venezuela. She served as an elected member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014. Machado entered politics in 2002 as the founder and leader of the vote-monitoring group Súmate, alongside Alejandro Plaz. She is the National Coordinator of political party, Vente Venezuela. In 2018, she was listed as one of 100 Women (BBC), BBC's 100 Women. In 2025, ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine listed her as one of Time 100, the world's 100 most influential people. Machado is regarded as a leading figure of the Venezuelan opposition; the Nicolás Maduro government in Venezuela has banned Machado from leaving Venezuela. Machado was a candidate in the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election but lost the opposition primary to Henrique Capriles. During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Machado was one of the lead figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vente Venezuela
is a political movement in Venezuela headquartered in the city of Caracas. It has parliamentary representation in the National Assembly. Its registration as a political party has not been granted by the National Electoral Council. Political ideology and position According to Vente Venezuela, the group "appeals to the principles of democrats and republicans" and "breaks from the traditional argument between the left and right". It describes itself as centrist liberal. However, analysts have described the party as centre-right, right-wing, or far-right, with the party's ideologies consisting of classical liberalism, progressive conservatism, cultural liberalism, liberal feminism, and economic liberalism. 2024 presidential election In the aftermath of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election of 28 July 2024, Vente Venezuela's offices were raided and vandalized by masked individuals. References External links Official website {{Venezuela-party-stub Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Smolansky
David Smolansky Urosa (born May 27, 1985) is a Venezuelan political leader and deputy director of the ConVzla Presidential Campaign representing the opposition democratic leader, Maria Corina Machado, and President-Elect, Edmundo Gonzalez in Washington D.C. He served as Mayor of El Hatillo Municipality in Caracas, and was the former Special Envoy of the Organization of American States for the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis. Smolansky is an SNF Agora Institute fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he serves as a visiting professor, researcher, and speaker on democracy, migration, and global authoritarianisms. Smolansky is also a senior fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Early life Smolansky was born in Caracas, Venezuela in May 1985. He is a second generation descendant of immigrants who left the Communist bloc. His grandparents fled Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union and settled in Cuba where they lived for 43 years; in 1970 they e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopoldo López
Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza (born 29 April 1971) is a Venezuelan opposition leader. López was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the 2000 Venezuelan regional elections, regional elections held in July 2000. He is the National Coordinator of another political party, Popular Will, Voluntad Popular, which he founded in 2009. He is a Venezuelan politician, economist, and sociologist. Administrative sanctions were imposed on López by Venezuela's Comptroller's Office in 2004, disqualifying him from holding public office for six years (beginning in 2008, at the completion of his term as mayor, until 2014), following allegations of nepotism and misappropriation of funds. Opposition groups in Venezuela criticized these charges as fabricated. López supporters say he was never charged with a crime, tried, or allowed to rebut the allegations; he sued Venezuela and his case was reviewed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which issued a unanimous ruling i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Will Logo
Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group. Popular may also refer to: In sociology * Popular culture * Popular fiction * Popular music * Popular science * Populace, the total population of a certain place ** Populism, a political philosophy, based on the idea that the common people are being exploited. * Informal usage or custom, as in popular names, as opposed to formal or scientific nomenclature Companies * Popular, Inc., also known as ''Banco Popular'', a financial services company * Popular Holdings, a Singapore-based educational book company * The Popular (department store), a chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas, from 1902 to 1995 Media Music * "Popular" (Darren Hayes song) (2004), on the album ''The Tension and the Spark'' * "Popular" (Eric Saade song) (2011), on the album ''Saade Vol. 1'' * "Popular" (M.I.A. song) (2022), from the album ''Mata'' * "Popular" (Nada Surf song) (1996), on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colectivo (Venezuela)
Colectivos (, ) are Far-left politics, far-left Venezuelan armed paramilitary groups that support the Bolivarian Revolution, Bolivarian government, the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) political alliance and Venezuela's ruling party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). ''Colectivo'' has become an umbrella term for Irregular military, irregular armed groups that operate in poverty-stricken areas. The term may also refer to a community organization with any shared purpose, such as a neighborhood group that organizes social events. Some colectivos began by doing community work or helping with social programs in barrios, and their members said they promoted democracy, political activism and culture. As of 2019, there are dozens of colectivos in Venezuela. In 2018, InSight Crime reported 46 groups in one slum, ''barrio'' (slum), 23 de Enero, alone. By 2017, they operate in 16 States of Venezuela, Venezuelan states, controlling about 10% of Venezuelan cities. Some perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupamaro (Venezuela)
Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro (, MRT), often shortened to Tupamaro, is a far-left Marxist-Leninist communist party and one of the most prominent colectivos in Venezuela. Several Tupamaros participate in peaceful movements while some believe in the "idea of armed struggle as a means to gain power." The group supports the National Liberation Army (ELN) and allegedly had ties with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). History After the end of the dictatorship of General Marcos Perez Jimenez, the Caracas area known as " el 23 de Enero" that was occupied by his wealthy officials was then taken over by poor squatters. Since then, the area has been described as a "hot bed of radicalism" and that residents have "a resistance mentality". When the Tupamaro in Uruguay were being targeted by the Uruguayan government, some of the Uruguayan members supposedly settled "el 23 de Enero". The Venezuelan Tupamaros have at least ideological links to the Tupamaros in Uruguay, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
