Venezuela Protests (2014 - Present)

The Protests in Venezuela (2014 - 2017) are a different protests in Venezuela because the high violence, civil deaths and food shortages. In 2014, After the death of Hugo Chavez Frias (The ancient president of Venezuela), the Vice-President Nicolas Maduro Moros, take the Presidency of Venezuela.

2014 (January - April)

 * 6 January – Miss Venezuela 2004 Monica Spear and her ex-husband Thomas Henry Berry are killed just outside Valencia, Venezuela.
 * 23 January - Opposition leaders Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado launch a campaign to remove Maduro from office, named La Salida (The Exit), with an intent to have President Maduro resign through protests with Machado publicly stating “We must create chaos in the streets through responsible civic struggle”.
 * 1 February – Leopoldo Lopez called upon students to protest peacefully against the scarcity, insecurity, and shortages.
 * 12 February – Major opposition protests began with student marches led by opposition leaders in 38 cities across Venezuela simultaneous with the national celebrations for the bicentennial year anniversary of Youth Day and the Battle of La Victoria.
 * 17 February – Armed government intelligence personnel illegally forced their way into the headquarters of Popular Will in Caracas and held individuals that were inside at gunpoint. About 300 opposition protesters gathered outside the headquarters to protest against the infiltration of the facility and are dispersed with tear gas.
 * 21 February – Venezuela closed its consulates in Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire after an alleged attack by a Venezuelan citizen, said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua.
 * 28 February – A group of protesters ambushed a National Guard officer and attacked him. A neighbor came to defend the officer, who ran behind the automatic gates. Eventually the protesters broke into the house he was hiding at and stole his helmet and bulletproof vest.
 * 11 March – In several places in Caracas, bags representing body bags were placed to raise awareness about high rates of violence and impunity in Venezuela.
 * 17 March – After the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Lieutenant General Miguel Rodríguez Torres announced the "liberation and pacification" of Altamira Square after days of protest actions, more than six hundred National Guardsmen were deployed in the district.
 * 26 March - The New York Times published an op-ed by Leopoldo López under the headline “Venezuela’s Failing State.” where he explained he wrote, “from the Ramo Verde military prison outside Caracas,” lamenting that for the past fifteen years, “the definition of ‘intolerable’ in this country has declined by degrees until, to our dismay, we found ourselves with one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere, a 57 percent inflation rate and a scarcity of basic goods unprecedented outside wartime.”
 * 6 April - The Student Movement called on Venezuelans to place Venezuelan flags and other objects containing the Venezuelan flag's tricolor on cars, homes and clothing.
 * 11 April - Members of the Movement of Young Venezuelans began a hunger strike while continuing to protest in tents in front of the UN headquarters.
 * 18 April - A student in Valencia was killed after being shot at least seven times.
 * 30 April - Students protested at Simon Bolivar University (USB), blocking its entrance while denouncing the Venezuelan Supreme Court's decision on protests.