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U.S.-backed CIA Coup in Progress?

COMUNICADO DE LOS ANARQUISTAS DE VENEZUELA
Saturday, April 13, 2002
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Venezuelan Slums Seethe at Chavez's Overthrow
Saturday, April 13, 2002
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - The sprawling slums of Venezuela's capital seethed with rage on Saturday at the military coup that toppled populist President Hugo Chavez as his political backers struggled to regroup and organize protests.

Q&A on "Remote Control Coup"
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Corruption by both the management and the union was out of control. The boss of the petrol workers union refused to abide by new Venezuelan laws requiring free elections of union leaders, and the old board refused to act on it. Thus, you saw this strange alliance of the big business magnates who looted the country for 40 years suddenly singing "Solidarity Forever" and "Strike! Strike! Strike!" in a disingenuous, made-in-DC, simulation of a grassroots movement. Call it "astro-turf."

Fox: Coup Regime "Not Legitimate"
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Authentic Journalist Roy S. Carson of Vheadline.com reports from Venezuela that military junta-imposed "president" Pedro Carmona has decreed that "Venezuela's name has been restated as 'Republic of Venezuela.'"

Coup in Venezuela: An Eyewitness Account
Friday, April 12, 2002
The orchestration of the coup was impeccable and, in all likelihood, planned a long time ago. Hugo Chavez, the fascist communist dictator of Venezuela could not stand the truth and thus censored the media relentlessly. For his own personal gain and that of his henchmen (and henchwomen, since his cabinet had more women than any previous Venezuelan government's), he drove the country to the brink of economic ruin. In the end he proceeded to murder those who opposed him. So as to reestablish democracy, liberty, justice, and prosperity in Venezuela and so as to avoid more bloodshed, the chamber of commerce, the union federation, the church, the media, and the management of Venezuela's oil company, in short: civil society and the military decided that enough is enough—that Chavez had his chance and that his experiment of a “peaceful democratic Bolivarian revolution” had to come to an immediate end.

Chavez out, armed forces control Venezuela
Friday, April 12, 2002
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 11 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan general said on Thursday that President Hugo Chavez's government had "abandoned its functions" and the country was under the control of the armed forces.

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