As usual at this time since 2002, President Hugo Chávez devoted four hours, fifteen minutes of his TV and radio show "Aló, Presidente" on Sunday 11 to relate his version of the events of April 11-13. There, he remembered "the martyrs of Llaguno Bridge, unarmed people who exposed their chests to a rain of bullets."

Lavish in details and anecdotes which made himself and the audience laugh at the courtyard of Miraflores presidential palace, Chávez did not mention at all General Raúl Isaías Baduel, nowadays behind bars and eight years ago publicly acknowledged as the author of Chávez's triumphant return to office after being temporarily ousted during a coup attempt.

He also made reference to Henri Falcón, the governor of central Lara state, who pulled out of the ranks of the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and joined the PPT party.

During the show, Deputy Darío Vivas reported on the creation on Monday of the "media guerrillas," composed of high-school students, as well as a rally of "34,000 militiamen" on Tuesday.

The president complained again about slow house building. "Houses are for the people" and cannot be built "over there, top on those mountains," but downtown.

"If you walk by Baralt Avenue, you will find rambling houses, warehouses, abandoned buildings, parking lots, tire deposits. Let's go for them! Let's go for those plots of land!"

Source: ElUniversal.com