Coup leader resigns; Chavez in transit

CARACAS -- Pedro Carmona, who took power after president Hugo Chavez was ousted from power, announced late Saturday that the legislature had named Chavez Vice President Diosdado Cabello to the post of president of Venezuela.

Moments before, Carmona had resigned in an address broadcast on RCR radio in Caracas.

"The national legislature has decided to assign the post of president to Vice President Diosdado Cabello, after the interim president presented his resignation to the Venezuelan people," said Carmona, speaking of himself in the third person.

The announcement restores the succession under the Venezuelan constitution that had been interrupted by Carmona's provisional government for a mere thirty hours.

[N.B.] Officials said a delegation of supporters of ousted president Hugo Chavez was enroute to the Caribbean island of La Orchila to escort him back to Caracas.