Pedro Carmona

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Pedro Carmona

Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga (born July 6, 1941 in Barquisimeto ) is a Venezuelan industrialist and president of the Fedecámaras (the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce and Industry), who was instrumental in the attempted coup against Hugo Chávez in April 2002 and as part of it on April 12 was appointed as the interim president.

On April 12, a decree was issued in which

  • Pedro Carmona was appointed President (Art. I)
  • The country gets the name "República de Venezuela" again (Art. II)
  • Parliament was dissolved (Art. III)
  • Presidential elections are arranged within one year (Art. VI)
  • The President and his cabinet may appoint transitional persons for civil servants at national, regional and local levels (Art. VII)
  • Public offices and members of the same can be "reorganized" (Art. VIII). This affected the President and Supreme Court justices, the Attorney General, the Ombudsman and members of the national electoral authority.
  • 49 laws that gave the government greater control over the economy are to be withdrawn (Art. IX)

Under pressure from the public and parts of the military , Carmona resigned after 36 hours and Chavez was reinstalled.

After the failed takeover, Carmona was placed under house arrest and charged with rebellion and assuming the presidency. When he was about to be transferred to another prison, Carmona fled to the Colombian embassy, ​​where he applied for political asylum.

On May 27, 2002, the Colombian government of President Andrés Pastrana Arango gave him asylum. The Venezuelan government rejected this, but at the same time accepted it as legally valid. Carmona was allowed to leave the embassy and reached Bogotá on a Colombian military plane. Since then he has lived in Miami.

In March 2011, Carmona declared that the Organization of American States (OAS) supported the attempted coup and approved the dissolution of democratic institutions and new elections.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chavez government overthrown in Venezuela. In: the standard. July 21, 2004, accessed March 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ derStandard.at - Alles für den Hugo ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / derstandard.at
  3. ^ OAS supported attempted coup in Venezuela in 2002. In: amerika21. March 14, 2011, accessed March 14, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Carmona, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carmona Estanga, Pedro Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan industrialist and interim president
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Barquisimeto