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Still, people close to military officials said that the sense of dissatisfaction with Mr. Chávez is likely to remain because the president has alienated too many officers in the past three years — largely because of his friendship with President Fidel Castro of Cuba and his contacts with leftist rebels in neighboring Colombia. Some officers remain unsure where their loyalties lie. "They really don't know which way things are going to go," said a high-ranking American military officer in the United States who is in close contact with active-duty officers here. "Chávez is trying to reach out, at least that is what he is doing publicly. But there's a great deal of apprehension."

They know which way things are going and that's why there is so much dissent. Chavez has, for a long time now, been shuffling officers around. He's been putting those involved in his '92 coup attempt into high government positions.