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Venezuela benefits from oil boom and its currency peaks against the US dollar; oil and steel industries nationalised.
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Carlos Andres Pérez is elected president. Takes action on the economy of the country. The economic measures were not well received by the citizens leading to an uprising of the population.
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Popular movement in Caracas, Venezuela. The biggest massacre in the history if Venezuela occurred. At least 300 people died.
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During the protestation, the Venezuelan National Guard represses the citizens wounding and killing them.
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Hugo Chávez makes a coup attempt against the actual president's government, in which at least one hundred people were killed. Later on, Chávez goes to jail.
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Hugo Chávez is elected president and launches de Bolivarian Revolution, bringing the new constitution.
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Armed forces rebel over violent stand-off between government and Petroleos de Venezuela.
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Once again Hugo Chávez wins the presidency of the country.
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Voters in a referendum approve plans to abolish limits on the number of terms in office for elected officials. This allows President Chavez to stand again when his term expires in 2012.
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President Chavez wins a fourth term in office, with 54% of the vote on an official turnout at about 81%. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles concedes.
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Hugo Chávez dies to cancer. Nicolas Maduro is elected president by a narrow margin. The opposition contests the result.
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Protests over poor security in the western states of Tachira and Merida spread to Caracas, where they win the backing of opposition parties and turn into anti-government rallies. The government accuses the opposition of seeking to launch a coup and breaks up the protests. At least 28 people die in the violence during February and March.
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Opposition leader, Leopoldo López is found guilty in a closed-door trial, decried as politically motivated, of inciting violence in his role as the leader of a 2014 protest movement.
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Opposition Democratic Unity coalition wins two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, ending 16 years of Socialist Party control.
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Hundreds of thousands of people take part in a protest in Caracas calling for the removal of President Maduro, accusing him of responsibility for the economic crisis.
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Through the months of April, May and June, several people die in clashes with security forces during mass protests demanding early presidential elections and the revoking of a planned constituent assembly to replace the National Assembly.
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The opposition holds an unofficial referendum in which a reported seven million people reject President Maduro's proposal to convene a new constituent assembly.
