América Latina

22 years ago, the Bolivarian Venezuelan people took to the streets in defense of President Hugo Chávez, in a popular gesture that would forever mark the historical future of the Bolivarian Revolution. With the slogans "Chávez, friend, the people are with you" and "Chávez did not resign, they have kidnapped him," the Bolivarian proletariat surrounded the Presidential Palace.

A fascist coup d'état began in Venezuela on April 11th, 2002, with the Puente Llaguno Massacre—perpetrated by armed bourgeois terrorists, traitors in the Metropolitan Police backed by the fascist, bourgeois mayor Antonio Ledezma, and US snipers—and the subsequent presidential self-swearing in of another fascist head of Fedecámaras (business union), Pedro Carmona Estanga, who tried to dissolve the Revolution with its Bolivarian Constitution and Institutions.

The working-class response was that the Bolivarian people achieved a popular feat, bringing Hugo Chávez back to power, which would leave a lasting mark on the historical and political future of Venezuela and Latin America.