<HTML>In a message dated 4/14/2002 6:18:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nathan@newman.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In this case, at least part of the explanation is the shifting decision of the main union federation based in the state oil company.  Apparently, they supported the initial coup, but when the coup leaders put in the new President, his actions in dissolving parliament and the constitution alienated the union federation, so they came out against the new government. -- Nathan Newman </BLOCKQUOTE> That's way too charitable.  What I have read in the Spanish media makes no mention of a change of heart from the trade unions.  The CTV has consistently been Anti-chavez and pro coup.  I would say that the main reason the coup took place in the first place was its support by the CTV.  The anti-coup forces appear to have come from the slums and they protested not only the directors of the coup, but the Venezuelan media, surrounding their offices, because of their anti-Chavez slant. Déjenme decirles, a riesgo de parecer ridículo, que el revolucionario verdadero está guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.                                      Che </HTML>