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- <text id=92TT2705>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Foiled Again
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- WORLD
- Foiled Again
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- <p>Another coup attempt fails, but Perez still faces an unhappy
- Venezuela
- </p>
- <p> Early Friday morning, a Venezuelan state radio-TV channel
- broadcast a tape of Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias declaring
- that President Carlos Andres Perez had been deposed by a coup.
- Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is
- still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this
- attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the
- presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas
- prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting
- nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the
- capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other
- rebels, the beleaguered Perez (his disapproval rating in a
- recent poll hit an astonishing 92%) seemed safe. Able to govern?
- Well...
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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