Why the Venezuelan Coup failed (Palast)

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed May 15 08:36:20 PDT 2002


Why the Venezuelan Coup failed (Palast) Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

^^^^^^^^^

Sounds like an anti-conspiracy theory.

We got spies too.

Yours in revolution,

Feliks Dzerzhinskii

^^^^^

Guardian (London) - May 13, 2002

Opec chief warned Chavez about coup

Greg Palast

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, had advance warning of last month's coup attempt against him from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan which saved both his government and his life, an investigation has revealed. Mr Rodriguez, who is Venezuelan and a former leftwing guerrilla, telephoned Mr Chavez from the Vienna headquarters of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, of which Venezuela is an important member, several days before the attempted overthrow in April.

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