Venezuela showed the U.S. that no coup can succeed against a Revolution of the people
Alongside the Venezuelan people, Cuba celebrates the heroic popular uprising that returned Comandante Chávez to the Presidency 20 years ago, tweeted Party First Secretary and President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Author: José LLamos Camejo | informacion@granmai.cu
april 14, 2022 10:04:22

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Alongside the Venezuelan people, Cuba celebrates the heroic popular uprising that returned Comandante Chávez to the Presidency 20 years ago, tweeted Communist Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, adding that the attempted 2002 coup was intended to resurrect the country’s dismal past.
The coup against Chávez was launched the night of April 8, at a reception for military attachés at the Meliá Caracas hotel, when Venezuelan General Roberto González Cárdenas silently accepted the business card of U.S. Navy officer David H. Cazares.
“When the United States recognized in Hugo Chávez an indomitable political leader who was promoting fundamental change on the continent, it was decided that the Bolivarian Revolution must be aborted,” noted former diplomat and writer Germán Sánchez Otero, Cuban ambassador to the country at the time of the events, adding, “It was a coup designed by U.S. experts.”
In his book April uncensored, Sánchez explains the motives behind the coup, recalling that, on April 6, 2002, a top secret CIA report noted that dissident military factions, including disgruntled officers and lower-ranking radicals, were intensifying efforts to overthrow President Chávez, “as soon as this month.”
The U.S. continues to hatch plots like that of April 11, 2002, and repeats the blundering of Cazares, who mistook a general loyal to Chávez as a coup leader, and was obliged confess his error.
The message that Chávez entrusted to then-ambassador Sánchez also remains: “Tell Fidel not to worry; if there is a coup, the people and the Armed Forces will defeat it.”