how Washington and its allies orchestrated the 2002 coup against Chávez; suspending Venezuela’s constitution and installing a short-lived puppet regime that barely lasted three days.
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Tariq Ali, the renowned British-Pakistani historian, anti-imperialist writer, and longtime friend of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, once detailed how Washington and its allies orchestrated the 2002 coup against Chávez; suspending Venezuela’s constitution and installing a short-lived puppet regime that barely lasted three days.
He reminds us that it was not diplomacy or foreign armies that restored democracy, but the courageous revolt of ordinary soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who marched to the presidential palace, demanding the return of their elected leader.
Today, history repeats itself.
The kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces exposes the same Washington playbook that never truly died. It is the very same neoliberal blueprint that propagates blatant violations of international law, regime-change operations, and manipulated narratives framed as a “fight against narco-terrorism.”
In Chávez’s Bolivarian vision, Ali saw the expression of Venezuela’s national dignity; a defiant refusal to bow to U.S. imperialist bullying. As he states powerfully: “When the people resist from below, it counts for something.”
Now, Venezuela and the peoples of the Global South face the same historical challenge: to resist an empire, the United States, that has gone rogue, openly disregarding international norms and the very rules it claims to uphold.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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