Successfully 1992 Venezuelan coup

The tendency for 1990s south american dictators was to democratize fast or fall, like Fujimori. He problably ends removed by a US sponsored coup or resign under massive pressure.
Would the same hold true for a left-wing dictatorship with a ideological basis ?
 
Would the same hold true for a left-wing dictatorship with a ideological basis ?

Yes but for different reasons, the USA is not going to allow a left wing dictatorship in the 1990s, if even today there is such a pression against Maduro's regime, a regime of twenty years of radicalization from a corrupt democracy (do not even think that Venezuela was a perfect state before Chavez, in fact many things improved during his government) into a left wing dictatorship. If overnight the white house discovers that a clique of officers took control over Venezuela, a invasion is possible.

And Brazil is going to help, in 1991 our corrupt demagogue president Fernando Collor (that got impeached after numerous corruption scandals and after confiscating people savings, ironically being impeached like the venezuelan demagogue Carlos Perez in 1993 for similar reasons), well, Fernando Collor autorized the operation traíra, a brazilian offensive to push the farc outside of the brazilian section of the amazon rainforrest and even to raid their bases inside Colombia. If Bush Senior or Clinton phone him asking him to blockade Venezuela, he would comply.
 
I’m not an expert on the history of Venezuela in any conceivable way, but I think Chávez would cling on until the end myself, just like OTL.

While I’m hardly a leftist either, Chavez was very successful politically early on as a fighter for the poor. Though his regime became increasingly autocratic, he did win elections (fair and square? I dunno) continually until his death, the famed failed referendum aside.

The crisis Chávez would face in 1992 is legitimacy. Military takeovers need some sort of cover to justify their actions. The challenge for Chavez in ‘92 would be obtaining this legitimacy in the eyes of the world and even to many of his own people.

If, say, he were to hold/rig an election in 1993, he might be able to scrape by with a weakened start. But if succeeds at this, then he could position himself much like OTL just with more time to entrench himself.
 
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