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Events in the year 2016 in Venezuela.

Incumbents

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

Governors

• Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla
• Anzoátegui: Aristóbulo Istúriz then Nelson Moreno
• Apure: Ramón Carrizales
• Aragua: Tareck El Aissami
• Barinas: Adán Chávez
• Bolívar: Francisco Rangel Gómez
• Carabobo: Francisco Ameliach then Gustavo Pulido Cardier
• Cojedes: Erika Farías then Margaud Godoy
• Delta Amacuro: Lizeta Hernández
• Falcón: Stella Lugo
• Guárico: Ramón Rodríguez Chacín
• Lara: Henri Falcón
• Mérida: Alexis Ramirez then Ramón Guevara
• Miranda: Henrique Capriles Radonski
• Monagas: Yelitza Santaella
• Nueva Esparta: Carlos Mata Figueroa
• Portuguesa: Wilmar Castro then Reinaldo Castañeda
• Sucre: Luis Acuña then Edwin Rojas
• Táchira: José Vielma Mora
• Trujillo: Henry Rangel Silva
• Vargas: Jorge García Carneiro
• Yaracuy: Julio León Heredia
• Zulia: Francisco Arias Cárdenas

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

• 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)