Here’s the complicated Chavez affair: There was a mini-coup, Carmona took over. Carmona had met with the US Embassy officials prior to coup, there were anti-Chavez group that had visited White House prior and White House did not condemn coup until it was basically over. Therefore, some extremists believed that coup was helped by DC, but that wasn’t the case. In fact, officials claim they warned Chavez before coup that trouble was brewing.
Notice that liberal NYT celebrated his outser in second link.
Most of this is directly from Ari Fleiser, true American,
