 From January to October 2016, 5,772 protests occurred throughout Venezuela with protests for political rights increasing in late 2016.Following the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis, and the push to ban potential opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles from politics for 15 years, protests grew to their most "combative" since they began in 2014.Following the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election in August 2017, protests subsided for the remainder of the year.