2002 Archives - Toward Freedom

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (center) waves to supporters during a rally held on April 14, 2007, outside the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. It was held here to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the return of democracy after a short-lived coup against Chavez was thwarted in 2002 / credit: Bolivar News Agency/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Venezuela Continues to Be the Model for Democracy In the Americas

Jacqueline Luqman May 11, 2022 Jacqueline Luqman

Popular action undid the United States' 2002 attempted coup against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Twenty years later, the Bolivarian Republic held an international summit commemorating those events, writes Jacqueline Luqman.