Published at: 11/04/2026 07:00 PM

The People held an event this Saturday in Puente Llaguno, Caracas, to commemorate the victims of the coup d'etat of April 11, 2002.

“We can say, today, that we are carrying out acts all over the country, against what was the preparation of a coup against the Venezuelan people, of a coup against Commander Chávez, and that, precisely, those who planned that coup had assumed that everything was over and had said: 'It's time to overthrow the powers',” said the head of government of Caracas (GDC), Nahum Fernández.

He recalled that during those days the repeal of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was announced by an official appointed by Pedro Carmona Estanga, named Daniel Romero, with the intention of restoring the 1961 text. He explained that this episode marked a turning point in contemporary political history.

“Daniel Romero said: the national Constitution is repealed, the name is now changed to Venezuela, it ceases to be the Bolivarian Republic and now it will be the Republic of Venezuela again, alone, without Bolivar, and then he said that all the deputies of the National Assembly, all the powers of the Republic are dismissed and the people shouted, in that room, Democracy, long live freedom! , they said,” Fernández recalled about that rugged chapter that should never be forgotten in national history.

The participants in the event also evoked the popular mobilization that, in the early morning of April 13, made it possible to reverse the usurpation and recover institutionality, a fact that was recorded in the slogan “Every 11 has its 13”, according to a press release from Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

During the day, the attendees raised a prayer for those who lost their lives in those events and reiterated the demand for the release of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros and the deputy Cilia Flores. They also reaffirmed their commitment to the defense of the Bolivarian project and the country's stability.

Mazo News Team