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Venezuela's short-lived coup may appear at first sight relatively insignificant: at the best of times, the country has a low profile (perhaps surprisingly, given the geopolitical importance of its oil) even among Latin Americanists; and a coup that ends after two days with what would seem to be merely the restoration of the previous regime, all without too much bloodshed, understandably raises few eyebrows. Moreover, it is true enough that the coup itself was, if such an event ever can be, rather run-of-the-mill. Hardly unexpected, practically formulaic, it involved the armed forces withdrawing their support from an embattled and visibly unpopular president who had alienated the middle classes and faced a uniformly hostile media; the situation, became critical, and the president's position untenable, when a popular demonstration was dispersed with violence and several deaths. Exit the president, to the polite applause (and perhaps covert connivance) of the United States, Argentina (to name but one example) has seen several presidents depart in almost precisely this manner over the past couple of decades

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