UN General Assembly
2002

In conclusion, following these events we in Venezuela are aware, we know I realize that many people do not yet know we have experienced terrorism first hand. A few days ago a video came out, more proof of what was being planned in Venezuela. In that video an international journalist made some revelations, stating that he was called in the morning on the day of the coup and that, long before the first person fell dead as a result of shooting by a number of snipers there were some foreigners among them the coup perpetrators were already recording a message in which they said that President Ch·vez had ordered people to be killed and that there had been six deaths. Well before the firing and the massacre of defenceless people began, they had already recorded this message. Ultimately, fortunately, the military and civilian reaction was very rapid, because the terror that had been planned against the Venezuelan people on a massive scale would have meant that terrorist practices would be applied against anything that was popular or