Re: "I'm not dead yet!" this alone is proof the CIA was not involved.
If Chavez had been subject to a CIA influenced coup, he would be as dead as Allende, as he should be.
The implications of this coup collapsing are incredibly bad for all of us in the Western Hemisphere.
I am starting to wonder if Bush is up to this.
We must have order in this Hemisphere if we are to prosecute our war effectively.
We now have allowed the Israelis and the Pals to completely rewrite the agenda in the mideast, and now an avowed Marxist and Castro's best friend is in control of the closest and third most important supply of oil to the USA.
Ed