Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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🇻🇪 In 2002, Hugo Chávez was kidnapped in a military coup funded by the United States. This was not the first of its kind – nearly every Latin American country has experienced similar events. What followed next, however, was extraordinary.

✊🔥 The Venezuelan masses flooded the streets, surrounded the palace, split the army, and forced the coup to collapse in just 48 hours.

🤔 Why did the kidnapping of Maduro earlier this year not provoke the same response?

🎙️ We break it all down in the latest episode of Against the Stream – a Hugo Chávez / Bolivarian revolution special. Out now wherever you get your podcasts!

🎬 Clips are from the 2003 documentary ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ youtube.com/watch?v=iH5nzZU0qCc

🎵 Background music by Al Wootton: alwootton.bandcamp.com/track/alder

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