Timeline of protests in Venezuela in 2016
2016 protests in Venezuela began in early January following controversy surrounding the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary elections and the increasing hardships felt by Venezuelans. The series of protests originally began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of criminal violence, inflation, and chronic scarcity of basic goods because of policies created by the Venezuelan government though the size of protests had decreased since 2014.
Chavistas protesting the removal of Chávez and Bolivar images from the National Assembly on 7 January 2016.
26 October 2016 protest that gathered an estimated 1.2 million Venezuelans.
Vatican-backed dialogue with the Bolivarian government
Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests
The 2014 Venezuelan protests began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of criminal violence, inflation, and chronic scarcity of basic goods because of policies created the Venezuelan government. The protests have lasted for several months and events are listed below according to the month they had happened.
Peaceful demonstrations in Caracas on 12 February 2014.
Anti-government demonstration on Margarita Island.
Human chain of protesters in Valencia
Protesters at Plaza de La República in Maracaibo on 16 February.
