2016 in Venezuela

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Centuries:

19th
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Decades:

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See also:

Other events of 2016
Years in Venezuela
Timeline of Venezuelan history

Events in the year 2016 in Venezuela.

Incumbents

President: Nicolás Maduro
Vice President: Jorge Arreaza (until January 6), Aristóbulo Istúriz (starting January 6)

Events

13 May – a state of emergency was declared by the president

Sport

5-21 August – Venezuela at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 87 competitors in 20 sports

Deaths

Andres Rodriguez

Cornelis Zitman

4 January – Andres Rodriguez, equestrian and businessperson (b. 1984).[1]

10 January – Hernán Gamboa, musician (b. 1946).[2]

10 January – Cornelis Zitman, sculptor (b. 1926).[3]

18 January – Pablo Manavello, composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1950)

24 January – Teófilo Rodríguez, criminal (b. 1971).[4]

14 February – Peter Bottome, businessperson (b. 1937)

14 February – Anselmo López, bandola player (b. 1934)

23 February – Luis Alberto Machado, lawyer and writer (b. 1932)

4 March – Ramón Palomares, poet (b. 1935)

22 May – Alexis Navarro, politician and diplomat (b. 1946)

7 June – Rubén Quevedo, baseball player (b. 1979)

18 June – Susana Duijm, actress, television host, beauty queen, Miss World 1955 winner (b. 1936)

29 June – Inocente Carreño, composer (b. 1919)

2 July – Carlos Morocho Hernández, professional boxer, world champion (b. 1940)

5 July – Alirio Díaz, classical guitarist and composer (b. 1923)

17 July – Aníbal José Chávez Frías, politician (b. 1957)

1 August – Oscar Celli Gerbasi, politician (b. 1946)

7 August – Rodolfo Camacho, cyclist (b. 1975)

23 August – Mercedes Pulido, politician and diplomat (b. 1938)

6 September – Alfredo Peña, journalist and politician (b. 1944)

18 November – Kervin Piñerua, volleyball player (b. 1991)

24 November – Luis Miquilena, politician (b. 1919)

25 November – Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, diplomat (b. 1956)

References

"World-class equestrian jumper, woman die in Wellington crash". palmbeachpost.com. 4 January 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
"El cuatro pierde un cultor: falleció Hernán Gamboa". eluniversal.com (in Spanish). 10 January 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
"Cornelis Zitman, el escultor de la belleza venezolana, falleció el domingo". El Estímulo (in Spanish). 11 January 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
Peter de Jesus (28 January 2016). "'El Conejo' Murder: Notorious Gang Boss Killed in Venezuelan Prison". latinpost.com. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

Years in Venezuela
19th century	Pre-1800 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
20th century	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
21st century	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

2016 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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