Tania Díaz: The 2002 coup d'etat was planned and executed using fake news

Published at: 11/04/2025 08:00 AM

The deputy to the National Assembly (AN), Tania Díaz recalled that the coup of April 11, 2002, was media, because it was sponsored by the owners of the country's large private media.

“They (media) planned a staging, today it would be fake news, they used the Llaguno Bridge as a stage to make the general population believe that armed Chavism gangs were shooting at the opposition march,” said Díaz.

During the Sin Truco Ni Maña program, he emphasized that later it was scientifically proven that this was not the case. “It was a scene staged by the metropolitan police who were on the side of the coup plotters with the opposition political force,” he said.

“They planned that bet on stage so that that would be the trigger for the coup action. Commander Hugo Chávez was on the national network calling for calm and the media broke his screen in two and broadcast the shootings that were taking place in Puente Llaguno,” he added.

In that sense, Díaz asserted that with these images they tried to deceive the entire country because it seemed that there was a massacre of people against people, but it was the Metropolitan Police who was shooting.

For his part, the vice-president of the organization of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Pedro Infante, who was a guest on the program, stated that newspapers such as El Nacional and El Universal, had the headline: “The final battle will be in Miraflores”.

“99% of the written and television media, at that time, participated in that coup d'etat, they betrayed Commander Chávez, who was elected massively by a people,” he added.

Mazo News Team