Hugo Chávez — The Fascist Coup Against Venezuela: Speeches and Addresses December 2002 - January 2003 [2003-01-01]

Ediciones Plaza, Havana | First edition January 2003 | 74 pp.

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“A struggle of the past against the future & against hope… of ignominy against dignity.” The “petroleum oligarchy, the big entrepreneurs, the owners of private TV networks… allied in a perfidious pro-coup coalition” aimed to “frustrate the dreams of social justice.” After “the ephemeral coup d’état president, Pedro Carmona (‘the Brief’) rushed out through the back door,” the plotters regrouped to “paralyze the economic heart of the country” via “media terrorism, something unprecedented in history.” “Private television networks & other media… attack the Chavez government 24 hours a day, calling all the time for civil disobedience, disseminating gross lies.” Their objective: “to wipe out in one fell swoop all the just laws” & “reinstate the past with its social exclusion & violation of rights.” President Chávez’s “combative & philosophical words… are an indispensable testimony of the battle that today is being waged in Venezuela for its people, for the ideas of Bolívar.”