the post being for-profit, i don't know how left-wing they are. thanks for letting me know more about chavez -- not that that matters to how idiotically the coup plotters acted. do you have any info on the partisanship of the 11-15( i keep hearing diff numbers) that died on the day of the coup? I've read e-mails that say a disproportionate number were chavez supporters, but no-one, not even the pro-chavez media, will identify them.
Probably because they're lying. Interesting Chavez didn't even mention the dead in his rambling "I'm baaaaaaaaack" speech where he talked about washing his socks and not having enough time to write a decent poem.
The dead, now being reported around 40, rumors from hospitals put it higher, came mainly from the anti-Castro march reported to be close to 500,000. Chavez's armed civilain supporters, Chavistas, targeted the crowd from rooftops, picking off many reporters, one is confirmed dead. These Chavistas, violent Chavez supporters, coming from his Bolivarian Circles (suggested by Castro and patterned after his communist block watches) looted and burned stores on Sunday. I don't think they met any resistance.