The Coordinadora Democrática (Democratic Coordinator, CD) was an umbrella group of Venezuelan political parties, civil associations and non-government organisations opposed to President Hugo Chávez.

The organization was founded on 5 July 2002[1] and officially constituted on 17 October of the same year,[2] with supra-organizational characteristics that brought together movements of different ideologies.

In November 2002, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), César Gaviria, installed a dialogue table between the government and the Coordinadora Democrática (Mesa de Negociación y Acuerdos).

[3] On 13 November 2002, in Caracas, the government and the opposition negotiate under the auspices of the OAS, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Carter Center.

Afterwards, the organization was focused in activing a recall referendum against Chávez under Article 72 of the Constitution of Venezuela, which was ultimately agreed on 23 May 2003.