Like old days: U.S. role in Venezuela coup under scrutiny. (World).

Guatemala in 1954. Chile in 1973. Nicaragua in the 1980s. The list is long of efforts by the United States to overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America or destabilize governments it disliked.

Now, as new details emerge of the April 12 coup d'etat that ousted President Hugo Chavez of oil-rich Venezuela for 48 hours, critics are asking whether the United States or its Central Intelligence Agency played a role.

"In the post-World War II era, of the 30 or so major coups in Latin America, there hasn't been one in which the CIA has not been…