Images from top to bottom and from left to right: Opposition march in Caracas on 12 February, National Guardsmen responding with tear gas, demonstators covering from tear gas at the Central University of Venezuela.
Date
12 February 2014 – 8 May 2014
Location
Venezuela
Resulted in
Negotiations between government and opposition
243 arrests and at least five camp sites in Caracas taken down on 8 May
Smaller protests continue
Parties
Venezuelan opposition (VP, PF, UNT, AD, COPEI and others)
Movimiento Estudiantil (Student opposition organization)
Resistencia
Anti-government protesters
Anti-government students
Government of Venezuela
Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB)
Venezuelan National Guard
Bolivarian National Police
Public Order Service
Great Patriotic Pole (PSUV, PCV, MEP, MRT and others)
Pro-government paramilitaries(Colectivos)
Pro-government demonstrators
Pro-government students
Lead figures
Popular Will
Leopoldo López
David Smolansky
Vente Venezuela
María Corina Machado
Movimiento Estudiantil
Juan Requesens
Justice First
Henrique Capriles
Fearless People's Alliance
Antonio Ledezma
Others
Lilian Tintori
Government of Venezuela
President Nicolás Maduro
Diosdado Cabello
Miguel Rodríguez Torres
Elías Jaua
Jorge Arreaza
Luisa Ortega Díaz
Number
Hundreds of thousands[1][2][3]
Tens of thousands of student protesters[4][5]
Hundreds of thousands of pro-government demonstrators[6]
Casualties
Death(s)
43[7][8]
Injuries
5,285[9][10]
Arrested
3,689
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[11][12] attributed to economic policies such as strict price controls.[13][14] 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.[15][16] 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,[7][8] including both supporters and opponents of the government.[17]
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^"Barefoot in Venezuela". Newsweek. Reuters. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
^"Vargas Llosa to visit Venezuela to back anti-Maduro groups". News. BBC. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
^ abFaria, Javier. "Venezuelan teen dies after being shot at anti-Maduro protest". Reuters. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^ abUsborne, David. "Dissent in Venezuela: Maduro regime looks on borrowed time as rising public anger meets political repression". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^"Conflictividad social en Venezuela en marzo de 2014" [Social conflict in Venezuela in March 2014] (in Spanish). Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.
^"Venezuela: Paramilitares atacaron 1 de cada 3 protestas". Tribuna (Puerto Rico). 9 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
^"Venezuela's Maduro says 2013 annual inflation was 56.2 pct". Reuters. 30 December 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
^"Venezuela Inflation Hits 16-Year High as Shortages Rise". Bloomberg. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^"Inflation rate (consumer prices)". CIA World Factbook. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
^"Venezuela's economy: Medieval policies". The Economist. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
^Cite error: The named reference AttemptedRape was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"San Cristobal: The birthplace of Venezuela's protests". BBC News. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^"A total of 42 people, both supporters and opponents of the government, have died in the protest-related violence which followed." "Venezuela: Leopoldo Lopez must stand trial, judge rules" by BBC News.
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