VOL. XLV

No 43

28-October-2002

OPEC

Venezuelas Opposition Parties Join Dissident Officers In Demand For Regime Change

Venezuelas main opposition parties have joined dissident military officers in their demand that President Hugo Chavez be removed from office. On 22 October a group of 14 military officers, some of whom were involved in the aborted coup against President Chavez in April, called for Venezuelans to rebel against the government. Citing a clause in the constitution that gives the...