I interviewed two military strategists, two highly respected professors who were critical of Chavez. I asked them, do you think the United States was involved in the 2002 coup? The answer was absolutely yes; they were off the coast with intelligence and they co-directed the situation.
When you listen to interviews with Chavez about who his captors were in 2002, he claims they were American. He told Larry King this. That's his claim, and that's the claim of these professors.
What impressed, albeit maybe not startled, me about the answer I'm relating to you is that had a supporter of the government claimed that the CIA or U.S. was involved, that's one thing, but when I hear critics of the government, very conservative people who are very respected, saying that, I think there's credibility to what they're saying.