Riots – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Sat, 02 May 2020 12:06:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Riots – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Riot in Venezuela prison kills at least 40 and injures 50, including warden https://onvenezuela.com/riot-in-venezuela-prison-kills-at-least-40-and-injures-50-including-warden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=riot-in-venezuela-prison-kills-at-least-40-and-injures-50-including-warden Sat, 02 May 2020 12:06:33 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=3002

The upheaval at the Llanos penitentiary on Friday started with an inmate protest demanding that their relatives be allowed to deliver them food. An armed confrontation then broke out between inmates and guards, lawmaker María Beatriz Martínez said. Full Text-> The Guardian

]]> Riots Erupt in Venezuela’s Countryside Over Food, Fuel Scarcity https://onvenezuela.com/riots-erupt-in-venezuelas-countryside-over-food-fuel-scarcity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=riots-erupt-in-venezuelas-countryside-over-food-fuel-scarcity Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:45:48 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=2873

Despite the six-week lockdown ordered by the government of Nicolas Maduro in response to the coronavirus, protests in demand of food have taken place in 15 states in April, with looting and violence in three of them, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict. The protests have not yet reached Caracas. By Nicolle Yapur and Fabiola Zerpa. Full Text -> Bloomberg

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