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La Patilla (English: The Watermelon) is a Venezuelan news website that was founded by Alberto Federico Ravell, co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, in 2010. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2014, El Nuevo Herald stated La Patilla had hundreds of thousands of visitors per daily. [ 4 ]
The day began with the National Assembly attempting to commemorate the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. [2] At approximately 8:20am VST, Vice President Tareck El Aissami, Interior Minister Néstor Reverol and Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino López unexpectedly arrived at the Palacio Federal Legislativo with government supporters dressed in red, interrupting the days events. [3]
The two men, flanked by members of the Venezuelan armed forces near La Carlota Air Force Base in Caracas, announced an uprising, [56] stating that this was the final phase of Operation Freedom. [57] Guaidó said: "People of Venezuela, it is necessary that we go out together to the street, to support the democratic forces and to recover our freedom.
The Caracas–La Guaira highway was blocked by protesters from the El Limón sector. [ 40 ] Europa Press reported protests in Petare, Altamira, Chacaíto, Bellas Artes, La Vega, El Valle, Catia, and La Candelaria, as well as concentrations on the Petare–Guarenas highway, specifically in the parish of Caucagüita in the Sucre Municipality ...
Officers at PoliPáez took many inmates into custody for inciting the uprising, with photographs shared on the internet and in coverage by major newspapers like La Patilla showing these prisoners stripped naked and lying in rows on the ground outside. [18] A police report of the inmates at this time counted 540, not including those killed.
On 11 June 2010 Ravell created a news site, called La Patilla. La Patilla is currently one of the top visited news websites in Venezuela, ranked more popular than El Universal, Globovisión and El Nacional. [5] On August 5, 2011 Alberto Federico Ravell purchased a small subscription television channel in Colombia called Cable Noticias.
A power struggle concerning who is the legitimate President of Venezuela began on 10 January 2019, when the opposition-majority National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 re-election was invalid; that the office of the President of Venezuela was therefore vacant; and declared its president, Juan Guaidó, to be acting president of the nation.
By February 2015, among the 43 deaths, only four were being investigated: that of Bassil Da Costa, that of José Alejandro Márquez, that of Geraldin Moreno and Adriana Urquiola, and none had been solved. [3]