Letter from the Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez, April 11
04/11/2008 -
4.29 PM
Washington, D.C., April 11, 2008
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On April 11, 2002, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez was briefly ousted in a coup launched by extremist sectors of the political opposition. Aided by elements of the military, fueled by biased reports in the private media, and emboldened by an endorsement from the Bush administration, the coup plotters disbanded the country’s democratic institutions, dismissed its 1999 Constitution, and persecuted allies and supporters of President Chávez. Against all odds, the Venezuelan people took to the streets to demand the return of their democratically elected president and to defend their constitution, even as the country’s
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