Recently Ousted Communist President Hugo Chavez Reclaims Power in Venezuela

MSNBC ^ | April 14, 2002

[rightwing2]

Our worst fears of last night have now been confirmed! It looks like the amnesty deal may have unlocked the door for Chavez return. Apparently, his position was not so weak as we had previously imagined on Friday night when he was initially deposed. Four years of installing his Communist political cronies at every level of the Venezuelan federal government with many loyalists in the military appears to have paid off handsomely. The coup plotters will likely get off with light prison sentences, but they will be thoroughly approved along with all anti-Communists in Venezuela who have now identified and exposed themselves to political retaliation. Chavez' Communist rule will be strengthened and solidified to a much greater extent than was previously the case and his Communist revolution of 1998 will be made more permanent. Given this outcome, I am beginning to wonder if this operation was not instigated by the Venezuelan Communists from day one to smoke out and "eliminate" their enemies ala the Warsaw uprising of 1944.

The Communists are back in Venezuela probably to stay. Today, the forces of freedom have suffered a resounding defeat after it looked like they had scored the greatest victory against Communism in TEN YEARS! Simply amazing!

[rightwing2]

COMMUNIST VICTORY BUMP!

[watcher1]

I'm sick

[ValerieUSA]

Castro wins again.

[MonroeDNA]

This is going to get ugly.

[zog]

---well, looks a variation of the old "missing 900 fbi files' gambit worked. I bet his agents presented the generals who took over along with all the various civvies, showed them the carrot and the stick -"let chavez back in or all this info about corruption goes public, your family might get whacked, and here's an extra million pocket change".

By the way for your bump list, blackjade, ratcat and sonofliberty have all been banned I believe, just to let ya know.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

The Communist Chinese and their friends Castro and Hillary Clinton and all the world's communists made SURE this stunning overthrow of communism was stopped.

I am sick....for Venezuela and for the world.

Prayer is called for here. Major. It was prayer that brought down Caucesceau and the other totalitarian thrones in Europe and the former USSR. IT WILL BE GOD'S POWER AT WORK IN ANSWER TO PRAYER THAT DOES IT HERE - AGAIN!

In the meantime, Satan wins one - a big one - and all the world loses - again.

I expect that America's communinists in the CIA and State Depts who are deeply imbedded in our bureaucracies also found a way to see to it that either we stayed out of it all or that we actually worked AGAINST the free wishes of the Venezuelan people!

What a tragedy - the devil is dancing and her name is Hillary!

[RedWhiteBlue]

It seems to me that we don't have the whole story.

[WOSG]

It would NOT be a defeat for freedom if the general strike were to continue. The Chavez policies responsible for this crisis still are in place as long as he is in place.

[Theodore R.]

About 12 years ago, a news magazine started a contest to see who could predict the day on which Castro would be toppled. Now Castro has extended himself into Venezuela. Where is Simon Bolivar when we need him? Why are we relying on Venezuela for oil? This is further proof that the liberals in the Senate are wrong to shut off oil production in Alaska, and, furthermore, Jeb Bush is wrong to stop drilling off his long coast as well.

[Theodore R.]

Mao Tse-tung said that "political power comes from the barrel of a gun." Hugo Chavez has revised that to show that power comes through his appointed infrastructure of leftist apparatchiks.

[Theodore R.]

Another possibility, the generals THINK Chavez is popular and they too want to be "politically correct." Probably quite a few of them were educated in the USA and learned "political correctness" from our institutions of "higher" learning.

[steve50]

What thread got them, zog?

[MadRobotArtist]

Where the hell is Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?

[Rokke]

If a president forced out due to a coup, returns in an almost concilliatory manner, is he really returning in power? I'm not at all familiar with politics in the region. Is he just putting on a happy face to get his country out of the international spotlight?

[tet68]

I kind of thought this would fall through, the center doesn't have the stomach for what needed to be done.

When I heard the interim president was someone from the chamber of commerce I had a bad feeling.

Time for show trials next.

[Rustynailww]

the real coup was in the usa. the clintonistas retook control of the cia and took over the state department. the clintonistas in the cia put chavez back in power, and with powell will seek to destroy israel.

[snopercod]

What the heck???

[snopercod]

150,000 marched against Chavez, and 10,000 marched for him.