Caracazo
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| Date | 27 February 1989 - 8 March 1989 |
|---|---|
| Location | Caracas, Venezuela |
The Caracazo, or sacudón, is the name given to the wave of protests, riots, looting, shootings and massacres[1] that began on 27 February 1989 in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, and the surrounding towns. The weeklong clashes resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, thousands by some accounts, mostly at the hands of security forces and the military.[2][3][4] The riots and the protests began mainly in response to the government's economic reforms and the resulting increase in the price of gasoline and transportation.[1]
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- ↑ a b Venezuela exhumes unnamed dead in riot investigation, Reuters, 22 September 2009Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto")..
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs nameducdp.uu.se - ↑ UN, Venezuela: Wound Still Gaping 20 Years after ‘Caracazo’, By Humberto Márquez, Caracas, Feb 27 2009 (IPS),http://www.ipsnews.net/2009/02/venezuela-wound-still-gaping-20-years-after-lsquocaracazorsquo/
- ↑ Amnesty International, March 1990, Reports of Arbitrary Killings and Torture:, February/March 1989 , AI Index: AMR 53/02/90, https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr53/002/1991/en/
