General Francisco Uson was Chavez’ Minister of Finance on April 11th., he resigned that same night while Chavez was meeting with his Cabinet at the Miraflores Palace. Uson never joined the dissenting military and has been low profile since then. Today he gives an interview in El Nacional (subscription only). I found the answer to this question quite relevant to the question of who was responsible for the massacre that day:
Q: You resigned on April 11th. which was surely seeing by Chavistas as treason. But did the dissident military see it as oportunism?
A. It is possible that they saw it that way. But my resignation occured because the Ministry of Finance is located just where the massacre took place. I saw what happened there. I had also witnessed the Cabinet meeting on the night of April 7th., in which, even if it was not said explicitly that violence would be generated, you could see that a violent attitude would be assumed in the following days.
From a first hand witness…..
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