Armando Cañizales Carrillo ( 1999-3 May 2017) was a Venezuelan

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member of the National Symphony Orchestra System killed during the

2017 Venezuelan protests The 2017 Venezuelan protests were a series of protests occurring throughout Venezuela. Protests began in January 2017 after the arrest of multiple opposition leaders and the cancellation of dialogue between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's g ...

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Cañizales was going to start studying at the

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Medicine School. On 3 May 2017, he was participating in a demonstration on Rio de Janeiro Avenue, in Las Mercedes urbanization, in

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, when he was shot at the base of his neck by a spherical metallic projectile, dying at the age of 18 years. Conductor

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condemned Maduro's response to the protests for the first time the day after the killing, writing in social media: "I raise my voice against violence and repression. Nothing can justify bloodshed. Enough of ignoring the just clamor of a people suffocated by an intolerable crisis." On 13 July, a night march was summoned in honor of those killed during the protests, including Cañizales, marching to the places where the demonstrators died. Dissident CICPC inspector Óscar Pérez made a surprise appearance in the march, before leaving and disappearing. The killing of Armando Cañizales was documented in a report by a panel of independent experts from the

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, considering that it could constitute a

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committed in Venezuela along with other killings during the protests.

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