U.S. Corporate Structure to Disguise a Government Program in Venezuela

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C. Venezuela: Some Examples of the Current U.S. Intervention Against the Bolivarian Revolution

In Venezuela the administration of George W. Bush is intervening in the political process with a combination of activities very similar to those the U.S. carried out in Nicaragua in the 1980s, but without a terrorist war on the scale of the Contras, and—at least until mid-2005—without an economic embargo. These activities, with a 2005 budget approaching $10 million, masquerade as “civic education,” “support for the electoral process,” and “strengthening the democratic system.” In reality, all these programs, carried out almost silently, support the opposition against President Chávez and his coalition.

The action agencies of this “open support for democracy in Venezuela” are the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) with its four associated foundations. The largest amount of money, some $7 million in 2005, is channeled by AID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) through a private contractor, Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), a consulting firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, next to Washington D.C. Additionally the CIA, as always, has its role in supplying secret funds and providing clandestine support.http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=8709

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Hands off Venezuela, Nazis

They can't stand the fact that the people in Venezuela are choosing a left wing and increasingly socialist revolution.

[leesa]

2. You mean the Venezuela with a democratically elected leader??

How arrogant they are in their lies. Chavez is way smater than these fools.