By William Gomez Garcia on April 11, 2024
the 2002 coup in Venezuela failed because of the people. photo: Bill Hackwell
Today we are facing a new date of April 11, 12, 13 and 14 that reminds us of April 2002, where it seems that no one learned from that lesson. Despite the fact that 22 years have passed since the coup d’état when the opposition, led by Pedro Carmona Estanga, briefly removed Commander Hugo Chávez from the government.
Carmona Estanga, known as Pedro el breve, with the support of the leaderships of the Venezuelan Workers Confederation (CTV), Fedecámaras, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, a sector of the Armed Forces, political parties of the national right wing, among others, repealed the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for 48 hours. Initiating the fiercest persecution against a people that after 40 years had finally managed to become part of a participative and protagonist democracy, an issue that the rancid oligarchy, represented by the families of the big surnames, did not forgive.
What that group and owners of the country’s wealth, plundered for more than 200 years, was looking for was to lead us to a civil war, where the Machado, López, Capriles, Borges, among others, had as their goal to resume control of the country through a coup d’état. In a video about the biography of her uncle Oscar Machado Zuloaga, founder of Electricidad de Caracas, María Corina Machado, highlights that her political task in her quest for power was to compensate her family for the recovery of that company which was expropriated by socialism, which she intends to bury by forming a liberal republic in Venezuela. For her, it is necessary to privatize the public companies, among them Pdvsa, and to put economic order and request international financing, through the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which includes the reduction of the State, thank God this will not happen because she has been disqualified from participating in the July 28th national elections.
This new April 11, a fateful date for the universal history of the peoples, where Venezuelans in 2002 said NO to those who used power for almost 48 hours, with a gray character who went by the name of Pedro the Brief, today a guest of the anachronistic New Granada, cradle of so many betrayals against our Liberator Simón Bolívar.
This April 11, it is 22 years since the coup d’état against the Eternal Commander of the Revolution, Hugo Chávez, where the same protagonists who are installed in the United States, Colombia, Spain, Chile, Peru, Argentina, etc., misappropriated, with the help of their own hands, the power of the Venezuelan government, misappropriated, with the approval of the North American Empire, our wealth, in support of the imaginary government of Juanito Guaidó, product of the maneuvers and schizophrenic “jalabolismo” of a civil society, represented by an oligarchy born in the East of Caracas, a Fedecámaras, carbon copy of the Compañía Guipuzcoana; a Catholic Church, entrenched in the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference in the best style of Archbishop Narciso Coll y Pratt, the archenchist of the dreaded José Tomás Boves, a CTV that pretends to revive in the discussion of the salaries and wages of Venezuelans.
It has been 22 years since April 11, when the Venezuelan right wing produced the largest number of deaths that still await justice. Not like the one that the International Criminal Court, through Prosecutor Karim Khan, at the service of the British Crown since 1995, intends to apply.
Today we are still facing a scenario where what is left of the Venezuelan ultra-right, with the direct support of the US Empire, headed by Joe Biden, dictates decisions on who should govern Venezuela.
Anthony Blinken, current Secretary of State of the United States, an imitation of Henry Clay, a staunch enemy of the Father of the Homeland, but an intimate of Francisco de Paula Santander, called at that time by James Monroe, the younger brother of the United States, has said: “the blockade against Venezuela will continue, as a result of the disqualification of Machado”.
What is clear is that the characters that generated the Coup d’Etat of April 2002 are there, asking for more sanctions against our country. Now, Biden himself dictates the orders directly. He has spent too many dollars to get rid of Nicolás Maduro, that the Treasury Department and the State Department, decided that Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio, David Smolanski, Gustavo Marcano, former Mayor of Urbaneja and Leopoldo López, María Corina Machado, among others, with their videoconferences, continue requesting a foreign intervention against the Homeland of Bolívar and Chávez.
Today, 22 years after that Coup d’Etat, the reality show continues, under a script in the best style of Leonardo Padrón and with a story that is constructed with the dispossession of the Essequibo, in a decision of the International Court of Justice, whose president is the gringo Joan Donoghue, presumably, an employee of Exxon Mobil that guarantees the oil exploitation in the richest portion of the Guayana Essequiba. This new methodology applied in both International Courts has as its azimuth to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, legitimately elected president on May 20, 2018, who will be ratified on July 28 in the presidential elections. But, what is clear is that they will not pass and no Empire will lay its hands on our country.
Honor and glory to those who stopped the madness of April 11, 12 and 13, 2002.
William Gómez García is a Venezuelan journalist
Source: Correo del Alba, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English