Published at: 05/02/2025 09:00 PM

(El Nacional, February 5, 1992)

• The National Congress was the first stage to denounce the real causes of the Civic-Military Rebellion in the early morning of February 4, 1992.
• Aristobulo Isturiz defended the causes of the uprising as a political event of historical significance, and not as a mere failed attempt. He disqualified the government's thesis of assassination, expressed solidarity with the statements given by Commander Hugo Chávez and the motives of the rebels to rise up against the government.
• Rafael Caldera did not hesitate to seize the opportunity to make an act of political contrition and obtain dividends in the future elections of 93.
• For his part, Senator David Morales Bello, the architect of judicial and police corruption in Venezuela, displaying recalcitrant hatred, did not hesitate to tear his clothes to demand the application of capital punishment for insurgents. This statement is not only illegal and unconstitutional, but also openly criminal. “Let the coup plotters die,” he said.
• In his speech, Rafael Caldera justified the motivations of the coup, arguing that “it is difficult to ask the people to become immolated for freedom and democracy, when freedom and democracy are unable to feed them and prevent the exorbitant rise in livelihood.”

“It would be naive to think that these are just the adventures of a few ambitious people who jumped out on their own without realizing everything they were getting into.”

“There is an environment, there is a sea in the background, a serious situation in the country and if that situation is not addressed, fate has many very serious concerns for us” (excerpt from the debate diary of that day).

“I don't think it's fair to say, in such an absolute way, that the purpose of those responsible for the uprising was to assassinate the president... I mean that what we are facing responds to a serious situation that Venezuela is facing.”

Mazo News Team