Security & Strategic Review January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Faced with the Democratic Charter, Chávez beats a hasty retreat
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who played a key role in invoking the Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) against those who ousted Manuel Zelaya from the presidency of Honduras in June 2009 and in portraying as a coup d’état attempt the police mutiny against the government of Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa in September 2010, found himself accused in January this year of breaching the Charter. After trying to shrug this off as yet another US manoeuvre against him, he bowed to pressure and announced that he was relinquishing the power to rule by decree until 2012.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who played a key role in invoking the Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) against those who ousted Manuel Zelaya from the presidency of Honduras in June 2009 and in portraying as a coup d’état attempt the police mutiny against the government of Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa in September 2010, found himself accused in January this year of breaching the Charter. After trying to shrug this off as yet another US manoeuvre against him, he bowed to pressure and announced that he was relinquishing the power to rule by decree until 2012.
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