Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Backed Coup: "Chavez accused the United States of ``deceiving the world, deceiving the very people of the United States, deceiving the people of Europe'' when it said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
``They are hatching a similar deception about Venezuela,'' he said.
He said he had evidence that Washington was involved in an April 2002 coup that ousted him for two days. He said the Bush administration ``had a responsibility in the massacre'' that helped trigger the coup, and that U.S. military personnel were involved alongside rebel Venezuelan military. "
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