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Venezuela's protests explained (2014x5)

: 09, 2014

With most of the media focusing on Ukraine, it's easy to overlook the protests in Venezuela, and it's just as easy to assume that both countries face the same issues. In both cases the demonstrators demanded the resignation of the president, but that's were the similarities end. To understand the ongoing protest movement in Venezuela we need to go back to April 2013 when Nicolas Maduro won the presidential election by a one percent difference. The opponent Henrique Capriles refused to accept the results of the election, claiming that there were election irregularities, like ballot stuffing and coerced voting. But the National Elections Council dismissed the calls for a complete review of the allegations. And so the opposition and the government were set on a collision course.