See ‘The United States and Venezuela: Tales from a failed coup’, The Economist, 25 April 2002. A State Department spokesman denied the allegations of American involvement in the coup in a letter (‘Events in Venezuela’) published in The Economist, 16 May 2002. Otto Reich, the assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, was reported by the New York Times to have summoned several Latin American ambassadors to his office to urge them to support the change of government. William Finnegan, ‘Castro’s Shadow: America’s man in Latin America and his obsession’, The New Yorker, 14 and 21
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