Significant1989
Caracazo
Caracas · Guarenas · Venezuela
Estimated casualties
276 – 3.0Kestimated dead
Official toll 276; human-rights estimates run as high as ~3,000.
SOURCEscholarly
A wave of riots, looting and state repression beginning 27 February 1989 around Caracas after President Carlos Andrés Pérez imposed IMF-backed austerity. Security forces' lethal crackdown left hundreds to thousands dead and helped catalyze later Venezuelan upheaval.
Belligerents2
- Venezuelan government
- Protesters / rioters
Sources
- Wikipedia: Caracazo
- UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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