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(Caracas, 08.15.2019. OVCS) The Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social (Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict, OVCS), registered 623 protests during the month of July 2019. This amount results in an average of 21 protests per day. In comparison with July of last year, it represents a decline of 347%.

According to the study, 55% of the protests were motivated by demands for economic, social, cultural and environmental rights (DESCA).

Protests in July 2019 were characterized by:

Complaints stemming from the scarcity of basic services, mainly utilities such as electricity, drinkable water and domestic natural gas.

A raise in lynching or lynching attempts in the country. The OVCS expresses its concerns with this alarming situation. During the month, there were nine reported victims in five states: Monagas, Miranda, Táchira, Falcon and Guárico.

Complaints stemming from failure of the distribution and sales of gasoline.

Demands for respect of the collective labor contracts and fair wages in the health and education sectors.

National marches to decry and denounce torture, persecution and deaths caused by members of the country’s security forces.

Geographical distribution of protests in July 2019

Across the country citizens gathered spontaneously to demand basic services and food. This happened in combination with organized actions planned by political parties and union groups.

Táchira state had the most, with 71 gatherings, followed by Miranda at 54, Distrito Capital at 51, Bolívar at 44, and Lara at 41.

Most frequent types of protest in July 2019

Despite the repression policy established by Nicolás Maduro’s regime, citizens haven’t stopped protesting and letting their voices be heard about their discontent with the current economic, socio-political crisis.

Public gatherings were the most employed type of protest in the month of July.

Most demanded rights

With each day that passes, the complex humanitarian emergency deepens. Every day Venezuelans face situations that endanger their quality of life, with an ordinariness that forces them to join the numerous protests and the waves of forced migration.

MOST DEMANDED RIGHTS

VENEZUELA/ JULY 2019

Housing rights / Basic services – 276

Political Participation rights – 221

Employment rights – 99

Due process rights – 60

Right to life – 50

Nicolás Maduro’s regime is responsible for Venezuela’s grave crisis

The grave crisis that Venezuela is going through is the result of the laziness, indifference and indolence of the Maduro regime.

Venezuelans’ living conditions continue to worsen every day. More families face the inability to cover basic needs because of the plummeting value of wages, and because of basic services that are limited or inexistent. Access to health services, education, employment, housing and safe living conditions become more obscure over time.

The OVCS advocates for Venezuelans to have dignified living conditions, different from the current reality, which is marked with high to extreme poverty levels, abandonment of formal education, lack of medication and chaotic hospitals, and the dismantling of the work force and forced migration among other situations. We insist that the solution to this crisis is only possible with the restoration of a democratic state and the rule of law.