Timeline of protests in Venezuela in 2018
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] By late-February, protests against the Venezuelan presidential elections occurred after several opposition leaders were banned from participating.Into March, the Maduro government began to crack down on military dissent, arresting dozens of high-ranking officials including former SEBIN director Miguel Rodríguez Torres.[2] The NGO Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict (OVCS) reported that there were 12,715 registered protests in Venezuela in 2018.
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