2015 in Venezuela

The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Venezuela.

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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

February

• 19 February — Venezuelan police arrest the Opposition Mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma without a warrant on the anniversary of the arrest of another opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro accused him of organizing a coup d'état with the support of the United States but the US has denied this.^[1]
• 24 February — in San Cristóbal, Táchira, Kluivert Roa is killed by an officer of the Policía Nacional Bolivariana in a protest against President Nicolás Maduro.

March

• 9 March — U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the U.S.^[2]
• 15 March — The National Assembly passed the Anti-Imperialist Enabling Law to President Nicolás Maduro, that allows him to legislate from 15 March to 31 December.^[3]

Media

• El desertor, directed by Raúl Chamorro.