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| Perez sez Hugo's gonna get it... |
| 2002-08-11 |
| A former Venezuelan president — who survived a coup attempt by President Hugo Chavez — said the policies of the current leader would force the military to launch a bloody takeover. Former leader Carlos Andres Perez, in an interview published by a Spanish newspaper over the weekend, said he opposed a violent overthrow. "But I'm convinced that only violence will force Chavez to leave. It is being prepared this very moment," Perez said in the El Pais interview. "Unfortunately, there will be a coup and there will be blood." Hugo probably won't survive the next one, because he came back from the last one... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |