2017 Venezuelan protests

2017 Venezuelan protests
2017 Venezuelan protests
Part of Protests against Nicolás Maduro
	Top to bottom, left to right:; Julio Borges speaking on 1 April following the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis. Millions gather during the Mother of All Marches on Francisco Fajardo Freeway.
Date	31 March 2017—12 August 2017 (134 days); December 2017 (sporadic)
Location	Venezuela
Resulted in	2017 Constituent National Assembly established; Disillusionment of protest movement;
Parties
Opposition National Assembly (majority) Democratic Unity Roundtable; (VP, PF, UNT, AD, COPEI etc.) Movimiento Estudiantil; (Student opposition organization) Opposition protesters Opposition students; Resistencia; (Protest defense groups)	Government Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ); FANB National Guard; Bolivarian Militia; ; SEBIN; National Police; Pro-government paramilitaries Great Patriotic Pole; (PSUV, PCV, MEP, MRT etc.)
Lead figures
	Leopoldo López; Freddy Guevara Henry Ramos Allup María Corina Machado Henrique Capriles; Julio Borges Lilian Tintori Rafaela Requesens Luisa Ortega Díaz Nicolás Maduro; Tareck El Aissami; Diosdado Cabello; Luisa Ortega Díaz (defected)
Number
Mother of All Marches; 6 million (Nationally) 2.5 million (Caracas); Hundreds of thousands (Daily)	Thousands
Casualties
Death(s)	165
Injuries	15,000+
Arrested	4,848

The 2017 Venezuelan protests were a series of protests occurring throughout Venezuela. Protests began in January 2017 after the arrest of multiple opposition leaders and the cancellation of dialogue between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's government.

As the tension continued, the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis began in late March when the pro-government Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) dissolved the opposition-led National Assembly, with the intensity of protests increasing greatly throughout Venezuela following the decision. As April arrived, the protests grew "into the most combative since a wave of unrest in 2014" resulting from the crisis with hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting daily through the month and into May. After failing to prevent the July Constituent Assembly election, the opposition and protests largely lost momentum.

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