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- THE WEEK, Page 26WORLDFoiled Again
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- Another coup attempt fails, but Perez still faces an unhappy
- Venezuela
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- 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 . . .
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