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I really must disagree

Submitted August 27, 2004 - 12:32 am by Al Giordano
The 1992 rebellion was coordinated between three sectors: civilian opposition, students (really, the vanguard of it) and dissident (young: Chavez was 38 years old, for example), lower ranking, members of the military.

How does that constitute "using part of the state apparatus"?

I mean, did they have F-16 fighter jets or anything like that? Of course not! (But the coup-mongers of 2002 sure did until the rank-and-file troops physically took them away!)

These mutineers didn't even have access to the presidential palace! (The way that the 2002 coup-makers just walked in, drew pistols, and took the president hostage.)

Your own opinions about what is a "mutiny" and what is a "coup," I don't know where they come from.

There is a list somewhere here on the Narcosphere of coups in Latin America. It is a very long list. Not one had the "from below" qualities that the 1992 civilian-student-military rebellion had.

Do you know who shed the most blood on that day? The student wing. And I'm just gonna have to bring you to Caracas one day to meet the leaders of that mutiny - who did not wear uniforms, or even have them - and they can show you the scars of the bullet wounds, at least those of them who survived.

In fact, the Narco News Cyber War Room in Caracas, from which we reported during the recent referendum, came from those former students... Readers, by the way, of Narco News.

1992 Caracas was more akin to Paris 68 than to Chile 73. And it pains me that the leadership of the students is forgotten... Who do you think pushed Chavez and the dissident rank-and-file soldiers to join them in the first place?

By that definition, Paris or Chicago 68 were attempted coups... a complete abuse of the word.

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