Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002

2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt
Top to bottom, left to right: Demonstrations against President Chávez on 11 April 2002. Chavistas firing from Llaguno Overpass down to Baralt Avenue. Caracas Metropolitan Police exchanging gunfire with Chavista loyalists. Presidential Guard waving Venezuelan flag after retaking Miraflores Palace.
Date April 11–13, 2002 Location  Venezuela Result Chávez reinstated by military loyalists and Caracas' lower class citizens.
Belligerents
Venezuelan government Pro-government demonstrators Bolivarian Circles Military loyalists Support:  Cuba	Venezuelan opposition Anti-government demonstrators Military rebels Alleged support:  Spain  United States
Commanders and leaders
Hugo Chávez	Pedro Carmona
Casualties and losses
19 dead and 60 – 150+ injured.

External media

Images
Gallery of the violence and other images related to the coup.
Video
The shooting of opposition marcher Jesús Orlando Arellano by a pro-Chávez gunman, resulting in the first fatality of the day.
Photographer Jesús Arellano being shot and killed followed by protester Malvina Pesate being shot in the face from pro-Chávez crowd.
Pro-Chávez gunman Erasmo Sánchez being carried away after being shot by returning fire from the Metropolitan Police. He was the reportedly the first pro-Chávez fatality of the day.

Venezuelan government

Venezuelan opposition

Alleged support:
 Spain

The Venezuelan coup d'état attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d'état on 11 April 2002, that saw President Hugo Chávez, who had been elected in 2000, ousted from office for 47 hours, before being restored by a combination of military loyalists and support from the Venezuelan poor.

On 9 April, a general strike was called for by the national federation of trade unions, Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), in response to Chávez's appointments of political allies to prominent posts in Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA. Two days later, up to one million Venezuelans marched in opposition to Chávez in Caracas. When opposition leaders redirected the protestors to the presidential palace, Miraflores, where government supporters and armed Bolivarian Circles were holding their own rally, the two sides confronted each other. Gunshots rang out, and by that evening 19 people were dead, both opponents and supporters of the government. Military high command then convened at Miraflores and demanded that Chávez resign. He refused, was arrested by the military, and denied asylum in Cuba in order to be tried in court.

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