US, Spain supported anti Chavez 2002 coup.

In an interview with the renowned newspaper “Reforma” from Mexico City Mr. Castañeda said that “not only did we say no (to provisional Venezuelan president Pedro Carmona), but also particularly with the Chileans, we managed finally in the Rio Group a declaration of support to the rule of the Constitution”.

As to the administrations which supported the coup initiative (which ousted elected President Hugo Chavez for 48 hours in April 2002), Mr. Castañeda specifically mentioned Washington, Madrid, Bogotá and El Salvador, although pointing out that those “initiatives were not supported by other American or European countries”.

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In spite of Mr. Castañeda’s revelations there are some obscure details in Chile’s position because the Lagos administration during the 48 hours rule of Mr. Carmona at some point recognized the new government.

This led to a distancing of Presidents Lagos and Chavez, and is believed to be the reason why the Venezuelan president was so adamant in supporting landlocked Bolivia’s claims to sea access, actually Chilean territory.

MercoPress

Created is far more accurate....a US invention with some small support from nations too poor and dependent to buck US wishes......

It comes right on the heels of the information from Spain's new President, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who revealed _Bush's boy toy Aznar was well informed prior to the coup, as well.

It's great they are going on record with this, formally telling the world that there WAS a far-reaching conspiracy.

Only recently some nimrod told DU in a thread that Hugo Chavez RESIGNED. Yes, indeed. He "resigned," our visiting genius informed us. If this was the case, and everyone knows it wasn't, how would this paragraph from the article be explained:

According to Mr. Castañeda just a few hours after the coup and jailing of President Chavez, “we faced another attempt in the Rio Group summit, this time under the initiative of presidents Francisco Flores from El Salvador and Andrés Pastrana from Colombia to avoid Mr. Chavez returning to office”.

Great info. Thanks a lot.

This is so old, it's got moss growing on it.

I wanna keep reminding the world that junior and his crime czar ain't getting away with nothing. I wanna hear more about Abu Ghraib, I wanna hear everything bad about this administration three or four time a week.