IN SPRING 2002 THE POPULAR VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ WAS TEMPORARILY OUSTED IN A VIOLENT AND UNLEGAL COUP D´ETAT.
THE COUP ATTEMPT FAILED. IT WAS CARRIED OUT BY NATIONAL ULTRA-RIGHT POWERS, BY CIA AND BY CUBAN EXILES.
IS THE CIA PREPARING ANOTHER COUP?
AUGUST 2004. HUGO CHAVEZ WIN THE REFERENDUM.
2004/2009. COOPERATION BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND CUBA MAKES STRONG PROGRESS
2004/2009. COOPERATION BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND CHINA MAKES STRONG PROGRESS.
2006/2009 VENEZUELA´S INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS STRENGHTEN.
STEPS FORWARD FOR THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION.
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Venezuela´s president Hugo Chavez has during his period directed to maintain independency of Latin America´s states and for developing of their mutual co-operation. The relations with Cuba have been warm. Chavez has also had good relations with other world´s countries who suffer US pressure.
Of course, this kind of a situation did no please the US-led imperialism. In April 2002 Chavez was ousted violently and unlegally.
According to circumstancial evidences - referring to corresponding political contradictions between other many south American countries and USA - and to both authentic local information and news articles by Associated Press, by Los Angeles Times and in other American press refer to external planning and carrying out of the failed operation.
The aggressive operation was - according to the contemporary news material - carried out by national ultra-right powers, by CIA and by Cuban exiles.
In the clashes outside president´s palace some people were killed by police´s bullets. The dead were Chavez´es supporters.
Hugo Chavez as a real people´s president has a large support. Aggressive masses of people were on move for Chavez especially in Caracas but also elsewhere in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan parliament did not accept the interim president Pedro Carmona.
In addition to people also big part of the army was on Chavez´es side. Chavez was freed and he is again back and in power. The rebels will be punished accordingly.
In the history of south America there is a corresponding event in the beginning of seventies. The CIA murdered in cold blood the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende.
There seems to be no limit in the US unscrupulous arrogancy in foreign politics. After having failed in a coup in a sovereign country the US continues the attacks by political threatenings.
In June 2002 Venezuelan media workers have expressed their support for Hugo Chavez against new coup attempt.
Israelis were involveld into the failed coup. In an operation the agents swooped the residence of Isaak Perez,the sales representative of an Israeli arms firm Perez who fled toAruba aboard a helicopter when the coup d'etat failed, said the military intelligence agency.
Corresponding processes may be expected also in other South American states.The US special envoy July 2002 approchaed Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina on order to calm down the situations and in order to turn the governments and nations aganis Cuba. No success.
The process continues in the end of 2002. Outside powers have manipulated strikes and demonstrations in order to create chaos in Venezuela.
In December 2002 Colombia's National Workers' Union (USO) gave its support to embattled President Hugo Chavez, offering to keep Venezuela's crude oil flowing during the ongoing national strike to force him from office.
The year 2003 ment very peculiar internal and external contradictions for Venezuela. North America needs desperately Venezuelan oil; at the same time by the CIA provoked strikes cause serious problems to get the oil. Venezuelan president had support of popular masses; the local and global capitalists want him out. However, in case Hugo Chavez would loose his position through elections, the next president would quite obviuosly be another Hugo Chavez...
In the beginning of 2003 a martial law was under consideration in Venezuela.
In January 2003 Venezuela got oil from Brazil and Russia and professional expert aid from Algeria in order to restart the oil refineries.
In January 2003 expropriations began. Children must get their meals, said president Chavez.
January 2003. Chavez announced prices controls for Venezuela.
In February 2003 Chavez moved to toward nationalization of agriculture in Venezuela.
On 2nd February 2003 the Venezuelan opposition officially ended the oil strike. The next offensive against Hugo Chavez by the rightist opposition will be to demand for new elections. Yet there are some weak points for the rightists: The elections would be against the Constitution and in the contemporary opinion climate Hugo Chavez would quite obviously be re-elected.
In February 2003 president Hugo Chavez launched a multi-front crackdown on opposition forces seeking to oust him, and defended the arrest of a top opposition leader on treason and rebellion charges.
In March 2003 Venezuelan oil production works again with almost full capacity.
Representatives from more than 80 countries participated the World Solidarity Forum with the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution held from April 10 to 13, 2003.
Around 170 Cuban representatives participated in Caracas the First Cuba-Venezuela Youth Festival in April 2003.
On the anniversary of coup attempt on April 14th, 2003 Hugo Havez declared that Venezuela is not for sale. This message was addressed especially to the IMF.
On May12th, 2003 Venezuela and Cuba signed a number of cooperation agreements in the areas of finance and health care. Cuba's Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas, signed the accords with her Venezuelan counterpart.
In the end of May 2003 an agreement was made between the Venezuelan government and opposition aimed at ending the political crisis which erupted more than one year ago.
In June 2003 Venezuela participated together with Cuba and Guatemala the anti-imperialist seminar in Bolivia. The seminar was targeted agaist the FTAA.
The Group of 77 (G77), which gathers 133 developing countries, held a meeting in Caracas on June 16th, 2003 to make preparations for the organization's summit in December to enhance South-South cooperation.
On July 9 2003 employees took over a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Villa de Cura, southwest of Caracas in Venezuela's Aragua state.
Venezuelan and Cuban education ministers, Luis Ignacio Gómez and Aristobulo Isturiz, respectively, were the center of attention at the 13th Ibero-American Conference of Education Ministers in Bolivia in the early Septemeber 2003. The meeting is in preparation for the 13th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, slated for Santa Cruz in November 2003.
September 2003. President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela won't recognize an Iraqi delegation at an upcoming meeting of OPEC ministers.
October 2003. Fábrica cerrada, empresa tomada!" (plant shut down, company occupied) chanted 200 workers from Industrial de Perfumes and their supporters as they marched toward Miraflores, the presidential palace. There have been also other plant occupations in 2003.
November 25th, 2003. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inaugurated the 5th General Assembly of the Parliamentary Conference of the Americas (COPA), which will be held in this capital. The meeting, held under the slogan "Towards an Americas Parliament," was attended by some 170 lawmakers and special guests from several countries. Previously, the Latin American Parliamentarian Network of the World Social Forum and the Executive Committee of the Parliamentarian Network of the Americas met separately within the framework of the meeting. The former agreed to condemn the resumption of FTAA negotiations without taking into account the Congresses of the nations and their constitutions, excluding the people's sovereign right to participation.
December 2003 the U.S. backed Venezuelan opposition began a new campaign to topple Hugo Chavez. President Hugo Chávez accused the country's opposition of fraud in a petition drive seeking a recall referendum on his term and insisted the campaign would fail.
In December 2003 Cuban President Fidel Castro visited Venezuela to talk co-operation with his biggest regional ally Hugo Chavez at a time when the Venezuelan president is facing a campaign by foes to vote him out of office.
January 2004. Venezuela moved to tighten frontier security after the government blamed Colombian paramilitaries for killing seven of its National Guard troops on the border between the two nations. Might this incident be a symptom of U.S. pressure against Venezuela and Hugo Chavez through Colombia?
January 13th, 2004. During a speech delivered at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico -- and with U.S. President George W. Bush looking on -- the Venezuelan leader said that thanks to Cuba's help, one million people have learned to read and write over the past six months. He also noted that Cuban medical assistance offers treatment to more than 10 million of Venezuela's 23 million people.
February 7th, 2004. (RHC) &endash; The US-based alternative news web site on Venezuela, Vheadline, reported that video-taped images of a meeting between CIA agents and the Venezuelan opposition are to be screened in Los Angeles, California this month under the title: "Agenda Oculta," or "Hidden Agenda." Filmed by Venezuelan intelligence agents, the video shows one of the most recent secret conspiracy meetings planning another coup d'etat against the democratically-elected government of President Hugo Chávez.
In March 2004 the planned referendum against Chavez was rejected because of faked names in the "voters" lists.
March 7th, 2004. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his foes to peacefully seek a referendum against him and he warned Washington to stop backing anti-government protests he said could affect oil supplies to the United States.
May 9th, 2004. Carmen Ostia Pulgar reported: "The capture of 56 Colombian paramilitaries who wore Venezuela uniforms in Sabaneta, Baruta (Miranda) is a very important blow against terrorism, coups, and violence in the entire world," said President Hugo Chavez Frias during his weekly TV program, "Alo Presidente."
May 101th, 2004 30 more mercenaries were captured. Some 1500 Columbian mercenaries were recruited for this failed coup attempt.
May 17th, 2004. Argentina received its first shipment of fuel offered by Venezuela to ease its energy crisis. Several South American governments plan to create a continental energy company.
In May 2004 Venezuelan people began to mobilize and arm themselves against future coup attempts.
May 29th, 2004. Supported by a mass popular rally lasting more than eight hours, Hugo Chávez maintained that the old exploitative regime would not return to Venezuela. Neither its oligarchy nor its neoliberal policies would beinstalled in the country again.The Venezuelan president also informed his compatriots that the current U.S. government has finally "taken off its mask" revealing the old imperialism - the murderer and slaughterer of the peoples.
June 1st. 2004. The referendum arranged by the opposition ended to victory for Hugo Chavez.
June 19th, 2004. The Colombian and Venezuelan borders were in red alert due to Colombian paramilitaries' conspiracy. They represent Venezuela's oligarchy's interests and aim to overthrow the constitutional president of this country, Hugo Chavez.
In July 2003 quarrel about referedum continued in spite of Hugo Chavez's victory in June.
In July 2004 the threat of U.S. imperialists' military invasion was imminent and concrete.
July 12th, 2004. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reiterated his country's prioritized interest in achieving South American integration, an old aspiration by Independence heroes Simon Bolivar and Jose de Sucre.
July 21st, 2004. Chavez called Bush "Emperor of Evil". At the same time Venezuela threatened to cot oil supplies to the U.S. in case the U.S. continues aggressions against Venezuela.
August 8th, 2004. The biggest march in the history of Venezuela took place in Caracas. The masses poured onto the streets of the capital in a rousing finale to the campaign on the referendum. This was a resounding reply to all the accusations in the bourgeois press that the Bolivarian Movement had lost its mass base.
In August 2004 there were large pro-Chavez movements in different parts of the world: in USA, in Europe, in Australia, in Turkey etc.
A new presidential referendum took place in Venezuela on August 15th, 2004. Hugo Chavez won with 58% majority of votes.
In September 2004 USA threatened Venezuela with economic sanctions. The Venezuelan government rejected the sanctions and issued a statement of speeding up the transfer off from capitalism and to self-supporting economy.
Joint Venezuelan-Cuban cooperation comission held its meeting in Havana September 22nd -26th, 2004.
In October 2004 Russia and Venezuela agreed to enhance bilateral exchange with emphasis on energy and technical and military cooperation.
On October 10th, 2004 Libya granted Hugo Chavez the annual Muammar Gaddafi -human rights prize.
October 31st, 2004. Followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stand as visible winners of the regional and municipal elections held in the country.
November 2004. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias told elected pro-government State Governors and Mayors that, from now on, there will be no more hand-picked or sponsored electoral candidates ... and next time, candidacies will dependentirely on grassroots support, which means that they'll have to do a goodjob as elected officials.
November 2004. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias visited of Spain, Libya, Russia and Qatar.
In December 2004 president Hugo Chavez, Gathafi Human Rights Prize laureate, proposed for establishing the South American Union according to the model of African Union.
December 14th - 15th, 2004. The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuel visited Havana for an official and friendly visit, at the invitation of Cuban President Fidel Castro. The presidents signed an anti-FTAA declaration to be applied in all Latin America.
In December 2004 Venezuela and China inked an energy cooperation agreement.
In December 2004 Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez visited China. Large commercial cooperation agreements for 2005 between the two countries were made.
On January 5th, 2005 president Hugo Chavez said in his Alo President TV-program that Venezuela is in agriculture heading to planned economy system.
In January 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said diplomatic and commercial relations with Colombia would be suspended until the country apologised for paying bounty hunters to snatch a senior rebel from Venezuela.
On January 19th, 2005 in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates paper production company Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers and the state. This is a very important victory for the workers of Venepal but more than that it is a massive step forward for the Bolivarian revolution.
January 24th, 2005. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States of provoking a diplomatic crisis between his country and Colombia. The U.S. aim to get support from other Latin American countries for its efforts to cause more conflicts will for sure remain as nothing but a daydream. Latin America is not any more under U.S. control.
January 30th, 2005. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong signed in Caracas several agreements concerning oil, agriculture and technology.
February 2nd, 2005. Ratcheting up his battle against Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he intends to sell Venezuela's interests in eight U.S. oil refineries, part of a broader bid to reduce his government's oil dealings with its biggest customer and ideological adversary.
On February 7th, 2005 the official opinion survey office Datanalis reported the support for Hugo Chavez to have reached 65 percent.
February 14th, 2005. Presidents Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil, set up a bilateral business meeting at Caraca's Miraflores Palace, aimed to seal a strategic alliance. Lula da Silva sustained the meeting takes place in a very suitable moment, as a strategic South American integration -a priority of his government's foreign policy- is being consolidated.
February 2005. Venezuela, Colombia leaders ended rebel kidnap row.
February 18th, 2005. Venezuela rejected at the UN Security Council statements by the US Department of State over Caracas' purchase of Russian military weapons as an intrusion in its internal affairs.
February 27th, 2005. A Venezuelan government delegation successfully wound up a visit to China in search of foreign markets, state-of-the-art production methods, development of national industry and foreign investment.
In March 2005 Venezuelan workers took over the Venepal paper plant in accordance with Venezuelan government´s Bolivarian revolution politics.
April 2005. Some 400 Venezuelan delegates and a large Cuban delegation attended a Mutual Friendship and Solidarity meeting in Caracas, Venezuela.
April 2005. Venezuela ended officially the military cooperation between Venezuela and USA.
In the turn of April-May 2005 president Hugo Chavez visited Cuba.
In August 2005 world´s youth and students´ festival was arranged in Venezuela with some 15 000 participants.
In August 2005 Venezuela signed a new arms deal with China.
In August 2005 Venezuela warned the U.S. by cutting of oil supplies to USA in case U.S. agressions against Venezuela continue.
In August 2005 Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez visisted Cuba.
Septemebr 2005. Hugo Chavez revelaled and denounced US newest plan to invade Venezuela.
September-October 2005. An interntional anti-imperialist congress on the basis of Korean Juche-idea was held in Caracas.
November 2005. Takeovers and natinalizations continued according to previous plans. President Chavez said these activities to support workers´ power and to pave the path towards socialism.
Decemeber 2005. Venezuela and Spain informed that they will sign an agreement for the purchase of military vessels and planes despite the US government's intimidations and pressures, according to Venezuelan Ambassador to Madrid.
December 2005. Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela with presence of representatives of the OAS and the EU as obsevers. In the transparent election governmental parties win as expected. The opposition parties boycotted the elections which they had lost anyway.
January 2006. The Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales visited Venezuela.
January 2006. Venezuelan government gave an ultimatum to the U.S.ExxonMobile. Unless Exxon does not sign a joint venture agreement with Venezuela, which carries out a large nationalization program, Exxon looses Venezuelan oil.
March 2006. A high level Vietanamese delegation visited Venezuela.
April 2006. Venezuelan-Cuban interparliamentary meeting was held in Havana.
May 2006. President Chavez visited Bolivia, Rome, Vatikan, Wien, Libya, Algeria and again Bolivia. The topic of discussions was mostly oil.
June 2006. By Venezuela´s initiative and with Russian support governments of many Latin American states began to plan for a integrated gas pipeline for some 4000 kms.
July - September 2006. President Hugo Chavez visited Belarus, Russia, Iran, Vietnam, Mali, China, Sao Tome - Principe, Malaysia , Syria and Angola.
August-September 2006. Argentina and Venezuela got closer with each other in the framework of Mercosur. Venezuela lent money to Argentina because of bad situation of Argentinean economy. It was obvious that new friendship between those two LatAm countries was born. This matter has special significance when forming of anti-imperialist LatAm integration.
September 2006. Venezuelan and Iranian officials signed in Caracas a series of cooperation accords to boost bilateral ties.
December 2006. The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez obtained a new mandate of six years with 61.35 percent of the votes.
January 2007. Inaugural ceremonise of Chavez new term were held in Caracas.
January 2007. Hugo Chavez took a crucial step for nationalization of Venezuelan electricity and telecommunications.
January 2007. Venezuela and Ecuador inked an energy cooperation agreement.
February 2007. Hugo Chavez was granted special decrees in order to push forward socialism in Venezuela.
February 2007. A Venezuelan military delegation visited Cuba.
February 2007. Argentinean president Nestor Kirchner signed in Caracas remarkable trade agreements with Venezuela.
March 2007. Venezuela prepared to operate a communication satellite which was made in China.
March 2007. Hugo Chavez visited Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Jamaica.
March 2007. President Hugo Chavez proposed for establishing of South Bank of Latin America as a component of South American internal integration process. Many countries accepted the proposal rigth away.
March 2007. Venezuela and Belarus agreed to expand their political and commercial relations essentially.
April 2007. Venezuela declared its independence from relations with International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
May 2007. Venezuela and China established a joint fund for development projects in Venezuela.
May-June 2007. The U.S. showed new activities in order to intefere Venezuelan internal affairs by supporting Venezuelan opposition groups.
June 2007. General secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam visited Venezuela.
July 2007. A high level Belarus delegation visited Venezuela.
July 2007. The ALBA -countries Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua started a large project of establishing joint ventures.
July 2007. Venezuela inked large commercial cooperation agreements with both Belarus and Iran.
August 2007. Venezuela and Argentina inked an energy cooperation agreement which promoted Latin American integration and was a serious loss for the FTAA-plan proposed by the U.S.
August 2007. Hugo Chavez left his proposal for new Venezuelan socialist Constitution to the National Assembly for further handlings.
October 2007. Hugo Chavez met with Fidel Castro in Havana.
November 2007. Venezuela decided to launch a satellite to orbit in 2008.
November 2007. Venezuelan Foreign minister visited Beijing.
November 2007. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez visited Iran. The countries expanded their cooperation program and established anti-imperialist alliance against possible U.S. agressions.
December 2007. The opponents in the new Constitution referendum won with a marginal difference of casted votes. However, the revolutionary process continues.
December 2007. The Petrocaribe Cienfuegos oil refinery started production in Cuba. In this connection Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro met in Havana.
January 2008. Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega met in Nicaraguan capital Managua and discussed of further bilateral cooperation and of general Latin American integration.
January 2008. The sixth summit of ALBA was held in Caracas. The main discussion topic was establishing of non-commercial ALBA-bank.
January 2008. Hugo Chavez proposed for a united ALBA military defence system.
February 2008. Hugo Chavez was elected to chair Venezuelan Socialist Unity Party.
March 2008. A problematic judicial process was going on between Venezuela and Exxon-Mobil.
March 2008. Venezuela had to mobilize armed forces against possible US-manipulated military aggressions from Colombia. Yet war was avoided... this time.
April 2008. Venezuela and China established a joint venture for oil production.
April 2008. Venezuela and India established a joint venture for oil production.
April 2008. An extraordinary ALBA summit was held in Caracas in order to fight the US-led fascist-neoliberalist aims in Bolivia.
May 2008. Vice President of China visited Venezuela.
May 2008. Venezuelan foreign ministery delegation visited Cuba.
June 2008. A decision was made for an underwater cable to connect Venezuela and Cuba. When ready, Cuba is not any more depending on North American telecommunications systems.
June 2008. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Cuba.
June 2008. Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister visited Russia.
July 2008. Hugo Chavez visited Bolivia, Nicaragua, Spain, Russia, Belarus and Portugal..
September 2008. Hugo Chavez visited South Africa.
September 2008. Venezuela expelled U.S. ambassador and invited its own ambassador home from Washington.
September 2008. Hugo Chavez visited China, Russia, Belarus, France and Portugal.
October 2008. The Venezuelan satellite was launched to orbit from China.
November 2008. Russian Vice President visited Venezuela. Several developement projects were launched.
November 2008. Vietnamese President visited Venezuela.
November 2008. The candidates of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the local elections with clear numbers.
November 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Venezuela. Especially energy and military cooperation between the two countries will be developed in a strong way.
December 2008. Cuban President Raul Castro visited Venezuela.
December 2008. President Hugo Chavez visited Brazil in conncetion with his participation in the large Latin American and Caribbean Developement and Integration Summit.
January 2009. Venezuela and Belarus signed several commercial cooperation agreements.
February 2009. Summit of the ALBA states was held in Caracas.
February 2009. The new Constitution was accepted in referendum..
February 2009. Chinese Vice President visited Venezuela.
February 2009. Hugo Chavez visited Cuba.
April 2009. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez carried out an official visit to Iran, to foster bilateral links, especially in the oil sector. Chavez's agenda included meeting with his Iranian peer Mahmud Ahmadineyad, and the creation of a joint mining company.
April 2009. Hugo Chavez visited also China, Japan and Qatar.
April 2009. Chavez visited Cuba.
April 2009. ALBA Summit was held in Venezuela.
May 2009. Venezuela and Iran signed a memorandum of military cooperation.
May 2009. Hugo Chavez visited Argentina.
July 2009. Large new commercial cooperation agreements were signed between Venezuela and Russia, including military-technology.
July 2009. Venezuelan-Columbian relations became once more problematic because of four new U.S. military bases planned in Colombia.
August 2009. Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez visited Venezuela.
September 2009. President Hugo Chavez visited several countries in North Africa and in Europe.
September 2009. President Hugo Chavez visited both Belarus and Russia. Large long-term cooperation agreements were signed with Venezuela and the two countries.
September 2009. South America - Africa Summit was held in Venezuela.
KOMINFORM
Washington´s New Imperial Strategy in Venezuela, May 2007
Poverty cannot be overcome with capitalist model. Hugo Chavez, February 2005.