Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup

Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup

These were days of marches. Huge marches.  That wrapped themselves around the capital, Caracas And, in particular, the higher-class eastern side of the city. It was April 2002. President Hugo Chavez had been elected four years before.  He’d promised a revolution. A Bolivarian revolution—named after South America’s greatest Independence leader, Simon Bolivar. And Chavez decreed dozens of laws hoping to turn the tides on the concentration of wealt…

News RT The media were an essential part of the network to depose Hugo Chávez in April 2002. The media are called the fourth power. Some might believe that this is an exaggeration, but the history of Latin America clearly attests that the press has a power capable of justifying anything, including illegal and widely reprehensible actions such as a coup d’état. Not too long ago, in 2002, the Venezuelan media played a leading role in the overthrow…

Mission Verdad, Abstracto Latinoamericano, April 11, 2025. This special work last year to remember and analyze the days of April 2002, as relevant today in the national sociopolitical praxis as for the historiography of the Bolivarian Revolution. The technologies of the coup, the rise of fascism, the political and geopolitical intricacies of that time [...] La entrada Venezuela. Coup y contracoupe en el siglo XXI: Abril, hoy se publicado primero…

Nicolás Maduro, who swore last January for a third term after his questioned re-election, considered this Friday that Venezuela saw the “face to fascism” on April 11, 2002, in reference to the 23rd anniversary of the coup d’état that removed President Hugo Chávez from power for two days (1999-2013). A [...] La entrada Maduro says that Venezuela saw “the face to fascism” in the coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 was first published in Foco Inform…

VEA / Yuleidys Hernández Toledo (This work was presented by the author in 2015 and updated this Friday) On April 11, 2002, the national right, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, various Venezuelan media, Creole businessmen and the U.S. regime, led by George W. Bush, carried out a coup d'état against the Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Since Hugo Chávez was sworn in as President on February 2…