Politics of Venezuela

At least five people were killed in renewed clashes between police and protesters in Venezuela, where a 48-hour strike called for by the opposition is taking place.
The Venezuela prosecutor’s office said a 49-year-old man was killed during a protest in Carabobo state and a 16-year old died in El Paraiso, Caracas on Thursday.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro rejected US economic sanctions imposed on Wednesday against 13 current and former officials in the country, defining them as "illegal." Reports BGNES.

 A nationwide strike against plans to rewrite the constitution shut down much of Venezuelan's capital on July 20 çbefore erupting into sporadic violence that left at least two young men dead.

Two people died yesterday during protests in Venezuela, while 9 are injured, reported Associated Press.

Energized by a massive vote against President Nicolas Maduro in an unofficial plebiscite, Venezuela's opposition mulled on July 17 how to escalate protests and block a new congress it fears may enshrine Socialist Party hegemony.

More than 7 million people have voted on the referendum that was created by the opposition of the president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. The vote is symbolic and is pointed against the politics of Maduro who is trying to change the constitution, reports NOVA.

Venezuela's best-known jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez celebrated a surprise return to his family after being granted house arrest on Saturday with a promise to fight on following three years' imprisonment for leading anti-government protests.  

Tension rose another notch in Venezuela on July 6, where the country's attorney general sharply defied President Nicolas Maduro one day after a mob stormed the National Assembly and attacked opposition legislators.

A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on June 27, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by "terrorists" seeking a coup.

More than 200,000 protesters took to the streets in Venezuela on May 20 on day 50 of an angry and sometimes deadly showdown with unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.

As with many of the previous marches in crisis-hit Venezuela, police fired tear gas as protesters in the capital of the oil rich country suffering from dire shortages of the most basic of goods.