The news broke record on May 9th 2004, when Hugo Chavez' government took over the Alonso’s home – Daktari Ranch – where Alonso, supposedly, was training 150 Colombians paramilitaries-mercenaries with the mission to overthrow Chavez from power. Eva Goling wrote: ""I believe there was a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’état, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of Colombian" paramilitary "forces were captured on a farm outside of Caracas" "that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso, just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace and kill Chavez"."