title: 2014 in Venezuela
text: # 2014 in Venezuela
  
  The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Venezuela.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Nicolás Maduro
  * Vice President: Jorge Arreaza
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla
  * Anzoátegui: Aristóbulo Istúriz
  * Apure: Ramón Carrizales
  * Aragua: Tareck El Aissami
  * Barinas: Adán Chávez
  * Bolívar: Francisco Rangel Gómez
  * Carabobo: Francisco Ameliach
  * Cojedes: Erika Farías
  * Delta Amacuro: Lizeta Hernández
  * Falcón: Stella Lugo
  * Guárico: Ramón Rodríguez Chacín
  * Lara: Henri Falcón
  * Mérida: Alexis Ramirez
  * Miranda: Henrique Capriles Radonski
  * Monagas: Yelitza Santaella
  * Nueva Esparta: Carlos Mata Figueroa
  * Portuguesa: Wilmar Castro
  * Sucre: Luis Acuña
  * Táchira: José Vielma Mora
  * Trujillo: Henry Rangel Silva
  * Vargas: Jorge García Carneiro
  * Yaracuy: Julio León Heredia
  * Zulia: Francisco Arias Cárdenas
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 6 - Venezuelan beauty queen Mónica Spear and her British ex-husband are murdered through a carjacking in Caracas.
  * January 9 - Seven suspects are arrested in the deaths of Venezuelan actress and beauty star, Mónica Spear, and her ex-husband, whose 5-year-old daughter witnessed the roadside shooting and was also wounded.
  
  ### February
  
  * February 12 - Protesters march against the government in various cities across Venezuela with at least 2 people killed in the demonstrations.
  * February 13 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrests opposition activists in reaction to an "attempted coup" against his government.
  * February 17 - Venezuela orders the expulsion of three United States consular officials amid rising tensions over anti-government protests after accusing the US of working with the opposition to undermine President Nicolás Maduro's government.
  * February 21 - 22-year-old Venezuelan beauty queen Génesis Carmona is shot in the head and killed while participating in a student protest against Nicolás Maduro's socialist government.
  * February 21 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatens to expel CNN from the country, alleging that they are helping the opposition.
  * February 22 - Tens of thousands of people gather in Caracas to protest against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
  
  ### March
  
  * March 1 - Clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces after 41 people are arrested.
  * March 6 - The government of Venezuela cuts diplomatic ties with Panama calling it a "lackey of the United States".
  
  ### April
  
  * April 29 - Venezuelan officials announce that a former chief of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, Eliecer Otaiza, was shot and killed on Saturday.
  
  ### September
  
  * September 24 - Venezuela's opposition parties named Jesus Torrealba, a 56-year-old journalist and teacher, to head their coalition ahead of 2015 parliamentary elections where they hope to weaken President Maduro's socialist government.
  
  ### October
  
  * October 1 — Pro-government legislator Robert Serra was murdered.
  