Ramtin Arablouei and Randa Abdel-Fattah

And it was those things that you kind of see in movies, like a grainy video of people, you know, in fatigues, speaking about the conditions of significant inequality that existed and that something has to change.

Some of the military units quickly took control of a few large cities in Venezuela.

But the unit led by Chavez, the one that was supposed to take over the presidential palace in Caracas and arrest the president.

That coup was a military fiasco.

He failed.

And eventually they surrendered.

Okay, bizarre twist here.

So Chavez, who failed in his mission, is then chosen by the president to make a speech on national television, mainly because he was the rebel leader who happened to be at the presidential palace.

Right place, right time.

He is one of at least six or seven other people who could have taken up that role of prominent leadership.

And it falls on Chavez because he is given airtime to tell all the other troops who had actually been successful in their own tactical missions to lay down their weapons.

This was supposed to be his punishment, to go on TV and wave a white flag, admit defeat, for two minutes.

I take responsibility for the failure of this project.

And then he also said this is a Bolivarian movement.

We were fighting for democracy.

We haven't achieved it right now.

But it's just over.

Por ahora.

Por ahora.

For the moment.