On December 4, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called the opposition's eleventh-hour decision to withdraw from the country's congressional elections an attempted "coup" and pledged that his government would respond with a "counter-coup." He added that every time the opposition attempts to force him out [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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