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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
</hdr><body>
<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>
</body></article>
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