page_title: Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2014 Venezuelan protests / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Maria Corina Machado attending the "Walk For Peace" march.
context_page_description: The 2014 Venezuelan protests began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of criminal violence, inflation, and chronic scarcity of basic goods because of policies created the Venezuelan government. The protests have lasted for several months and events are listed below according to the month they had happened.
context_section_description: 1 October - Maria Corina Machado is awarded the 2014 Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems following her actions calling on citizens to demonstrate and being a target for her work, with Vice Chairman William J. Hybl stating that "Machado's unwavering commitment to giving people a voice in the way they are governed speaks to IFES' core mission of advancing democratic rights and empowering those who have been marginalized from the political process". Machado's son traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive the award for his mother due to travel restrictions placed on Maria Corina Machado by the Venezuelan government. Construction workers in Tachira marched for higher wages. Pro-government deputy, Robert Serra, and his companion María Herrera were found stabbed in their home.
  2 October - Government officials lamented Serra's murder and started searching the ones that committed the crime. Some of them pointed blame towards the opposition movement. The OAS condoned the act.
  3 October - President Maduro blamed former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe, of being the mastermind behind Serra's murder. Uribe responded by calling President Maduro a coward.
  4 October - Members of Popular Will went to the streets to gather signatures demanding the gathering of a National Constituent Assembly.
  5 October -During the 2014 Caracas Rock 10K, citizens were seen holding banners demanding the release of Leopoldo López while also discussing other issues.
  6 October - Clashes occurred at a protest against the Venezuelan government between University of Tachira students and the National Police.
  7 October - Protests occurred in Mérida following issues with the allocation of funds for University of Los Andes.
  8 October - The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that López was detained arbitrarily and that the Venezuelan government "violated several of their civil, political and constitutional rights" while demanding his immediate release. Students near the Territorial Polytechnic University of Alonso Gamero protested in which resulted in clashes with police. Motorcycle taxi drivers protested in Puerto Cabello against insecurity in the area.
  9 October - Workers in Maracay protested blocking Bolivar Avenue after not having electricity for 20 days.
  11 October - The Venezuelan government condemned the statements by the United Nations demanding them to not interfere in Venezuelan affairs.
  12 October - Three Sidor protesters who were arrested are transferred to the SEBIN headquarters.
  13 October - Agroindustrial engineering student Carlos Alberto Villamizar Guerrero was reported to be in critical condition after allegedly being struck by a National Police motorcycle during the 6 October protests at the University of Tachira.
  14 October - The hospital where Carlos Alberto Villamizar Guerrero was being treated at stated that he was not in critical condition.
  15 October - At the University of Rafael Belloso Chacín in Maracaibo, a demonstration occurred where in one location blocked a street which resulted in the National Guard responding with tear gas and rubber bullets possibly injuring several individuals. Merchants in Maracay protested outside of the CORPOELEC after not having electricity for over 26 days.
  16 October - Photos of Leopoldo López and Daniel Ceballos are released showing them reaching out of their jail cell windows holding papers showing the approval of the United Nations resolution demanding their release.
  17 October - In the Maracay neighborhood of Guasimal, residents protested due to the lack of public services. Students and professors of dentistry protested at the Central University of Venezuela due to the lack of supplies saying that out of 200 items, only 10 are found on the market in the area.
  18 October - A march title "Walk For Peace" was held by the Venezuelan opposition at the Caracas slum area of Petare where the attendees denounced shortages of medicine and food, labor terrorism, political persecution and insecurity.
  20 October - Citizens of Los Valles del Tuy p
caption: Maria Corina Machado attending the "Walk For Peace" march.
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