Army Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, who headed a 1992 attempted coup against the government of then-president Carlos Andres Perez, talks to reporters on March 26, 1994, after being freed from jail.

Marcos Lobos: "Chavez was more than an icon" President Hugo Chávez may have died six ... It was here that the former leader organised a failed coup attempt in 1992. It is known as a traditional ...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez asserted that “it was true” that the former Spanish conservative administration of Jose Aznar had supported the April 2002 coup. Mr. Chavez currently on a ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promoted a general criticized ... “Now Insulza is saying that he’s calling for a coup,” Chavez said. “Don’t be ridiculous. You’re irresponsible ...

The leadership of Hugo Chávez — an almost infinite machine ... It was the attempted coup against Chavez in 2002 that would radically change the situation. The image of a “corrupt plutocracy ...

FANS of The Lord of the Rings will remember the scene where King Theoden, with his refuge of Helm’s Deep poised to fall to ...

Before Nicólas Maduro, Venezuela was led by Hugo Chávez, who was buddies with ... on the public stage in 1992 after leading a ...

Happy. But not all my Venezuelan memories were as fond. There were years of protests, a coup d’état, the hardening of Hugo Chávez’s presidency into authoritarian rule. The country was ...

In this dingy building in a suburb of Caracas, Hugo Chávez is very much alive ... efforts by the opposition to oust him constituted a coup. "We want things to be resolved through dialogue ...

That's what happened in Venezuela. Coup plotter Hugo Chavez should have never been pardoned in 1994 by President Rafael Caldera. Venezuela would have been spared nearly three decades of chaos ...

Protests over economic conditions deteriorated into looting, and amid the turmoil, a young paratrooper named Hugo Chavez attempted to lead a coup in 1992. Chavez would serve two years in prison ...

How did a convicted felon, who sought to overturn a presidential election that he decisively lost just four years ago, win the votes of more than 72 million Americans?