11.   But critics fear the real aim of the former coup leader is to install the type of authoritarian regime most of Latin America is trying to leave behind.

12.   But with the former coup leader urging the assembly to abolish both Congress and the Supreme Court, opposition leaders fear the vote Sunday is a prelude to dictatorship.

13.   Chavez has come under criticism for promoting former coup participants to top government posts, and for giving the military a larger role in Venezuelan society.

14.   Chavez, a former military coup leader, had been banned from entering the United States until his election as president in December.

15.   Chavez already had named several former coup participants to senior government posts, including Caracas governor, transportation minister and secret police chief.

16.   Chavez, a leftist former coup leader, insists the military supports him.

17.   Constant is being tried in absentia along with former coup leader Raoul Cedras, who lives in exile in Panama.

18.   Eliecer Otaiza replaces retired Col. Jesus Urdaneta, another former coup plotter who resigned last week because of a conflict with the foreign minister.

19.   Former coup strongman Michel Francois, wanted for drug trafficking, is currently being held Honduras jail, pending a ruling on his extradition to the United States.

20.   Former coup leader Raoul Cedras lives in exile in Panama.