Coup leader, cronies arrested; joy in streets
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Sunday April 14, 2002 05:23
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AFP via ProletarianNews 8:18pm Sat Apr 13 '02 (Modified on 9:00pm Sat Apr 13 '02) article#171300 AFP. 13 April 2002. Diosdado Cabello sworn in as Venezuela president; Chavez men reinstated.
CARACAS -- Interim Venezuelan president Pedro Carmona, who took office after Hugo Chavez was ousted from power, announced late Saturday that the legislature had named Chavez's vice president Diosdado Cabello as the country's new president.
[N.B.] Carmona was then arrested, along with his top ministers and top military supporters.
Moments before, Carmona had resigned in an address broadcast on RCR radio in Caracas.
Caracas television stations immediately showed jubilant crowds, many of which had moments before threatened violence.
Police sirens wailed in the streets as citizens set off fireworks.
General Lucas Rincon was returned to his post as commander of the armed forces, which he held under Chavez, said Vice Rear Admiral Hector Ramirez, who had been named defense minister under the provisional government.
Former Chavez ministers said that the entire Chavez cabinet, with the exception of Chavez himself, had met at the Miraflores palace, during a hurried message they delivered over the state-owned television network.
"We are retaking control of the nation's institutions, reestablishing constitutional order. We have spent many difficult hours but the rightist dictatorship has been defeated," said legislator Juan Bareto.
"We are going to reconcile the country."
Vargas told AFP that a group of Chavez supporters was on its way to Venezuela's Orchila island in the Caribbean sea to bring Chavez back to Caracas.
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Hugo Chavez has now reassumed the presidency in Venezuela. Resistance by ordinary workers and soldiers has defeated the coup engineered by the oil company executives with the co-operation of the Trade Union Hierarchy and the Generals.
http://www.vheadline.com/p1/latestedition.htm
for venezuelan coverage including analysis of the role of the corporate media in Venezuela.
Final comment - watch the oil price tomorrow morning - there was a $2 drop on Friday showing who the real winners were from the attempted coup.
What a crazy, long weekend for the life of democracy in Venezuela! What was Carmona on? What was he taking? Under the cover of Palestinian/ Israeli crisis, he carried out this much predicted attack on democratic life.
Will Chavez now address the UN and seek a resolution demanding that the US keep its blood stained hands off Venezuela?
All the other news sources still report that he's still being held by the military. Can anyone confirm this story? It sounds like it may be a hoax.
Here's an article in the independent about it:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=284840
This is great news if true, but clearly
the US are going to get involved and bring
the full force of their propanganda machine
down on it and engineer a civil war or
something.
The Irish Times (Washington Correspondent) on Sat
re-iterated the lies that it was opposition supporters
who were killed when in fact it was pro-Chavez
supporters who had been killed. There was also
some other ominious quotes in there from the
'Hertitage Foundation'. Beware of this lot and
look out for them, because they are an right-wing
pro-Republican think tank, that the Corporate media
give space to alot in newspapers and general media
reports.
If Bush considers himself a defender of democracy and leader of the 'free' world etc will he step in and defend the Chavez govt?? I think they'll be making snowmen in hell first.
Although Chavez is not perfect he does have a certain base among workers and was not acting in the interests of US imperialism. This coup puts out a message to the workers of Argentina and Brazil not to go down road of challenging US imperialism.
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