Chávez’s Overthrow Was Clearly Predictable Posted: Thursday, April 25, 2002
By Stephen Kangal Caroni Trinidad & Tobago
The illegal overthrow of democratically-elected President Chávez of neighbouring Venezuela albeit via a failed 48 hour coup on April 12 was clearly predictable. While his overthrow was being slowly but inevitably incubated since his assumption of the Presidency in 1998 in his leftist radical domestic and foreign policy posturings the events of September 11 and its aftermath, most notably the fortress America foreign policy and the homeland security agenda provided the trigger mechanisms that escalated the failed coup. MORE
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