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'Chavez to return to power' |
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by AFP
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14 Apr 2002
Modified: 01:04:36 PM |
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14 April 2002. Venezuelan acting president says Chavez to return to power; Chavez leaves Orchila island in helicopter. |
 14 April 2002. Venezuelan acting president says Chavez to return to power; Chavez leaves Orchila island in helicopter. |
CARACAS -- Diosdado Cabello said he had taken an oath as acting Venezuelan president only to assure the smooth constitutional succession so deposed leader Hugo Chavez could be returned to the presidential palace within a matter of hours.
"Countrymen in all of Venezuela, I speak to you as acting president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a post I assume in accordance with the constitution for the short, temporary absence of the constitutionally-elected president, Hugo Chavez Frias," Cabello said after his swearing-in Saturday.
Chavez left Orchila Island in the Caribbean Sea where he was detained and is headed for Caracas, said labor minister Maria Cristina Iglesias.
"President Hugo Chavez is with us," the minister said in a television interview.
She said the route taken by the president could not be disclosed
"The coup was met with a counter-coup," said Jose Vicente Rangel, who recovered the job of civil defense minister he held under Chavez.
The announcement restored the constitutionally-stipulated succession that had been interrupted by Carmona's provisional government for twenty-seven hours.
Carmona and other members of the interim government are now under military custody.
Former Chavez ministers said that the entire Chavez cabinet, with the exception of Chavez himself, had met at the Miraflores palace and delivered a message 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." |
See also:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=171398&group=webcast
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An Excellent Article On How Racism Was Involved With the Coup |
by ML
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14 Apr 2002
Modified: 01:06:41 PM |
Note: I need to warn the reader that some of the photos at the link below are very graphic.
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=171652&group=webcast |
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The Timing of the CIA's Coup Attempt |
by ML
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14 Apr 2002
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Something rotten is in the wind. What the coup's timing means.
The fact is that any near-term oil supply problems in the Middle East will give Venezuela, and others, more leverage in opposing the schemes of Bush and his oil-junkie cohorts. I think we need to look at the timing of the coup in this light. Because Bush is in the process of implementing two policies in the Middle East that could seriously backfire at this point, with Venezuela able to exercise her rightful sovereignty again:
A. Continuing to allow Bush's Israeli proxies to attempt to destroy the Palestinian Authority and impose annexation to Israel, along with the accompanying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, on the West Bank and Gaza.
B. War on Iraq, at the earliest opportunity.
There should be little doubt that the Venezuela coup at this particular time was meant to secure the US "backyard" (as Washington sees it) so that Sharon's Israel and the Defense Department could have the green light to proceed with their plans. Reaction from the Arab states will be hard to channel now if things continue on the same timetable in the Middle East. No, Bush won't abandon his plans, but this has certainly rescheduled things from where he had planned.
Now the upcoming fall US congressional election won't likely take place in an atmosphere of Republican triumphalism. Instead, there should be serious questions asked about the long-term viability of most of Bush's policies. Whether these questions will come from the Democrats is something the people here shouldn't count on. Instead, it is time to redouble popular mobilizations, like the events of next weekend in DC.
The people of Venezuela show that we do NOT have to put up with a repeat of the crooked politics at the end of the 2000 election. But we will get nothing more than we demand, so prepare to speak up. |
