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rabs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-10 06:21 PM
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US interference in Venezuela keeps growing


Interesting, fact-filled article from Eva Golinger that will never show up in the U.S. corpo-media.

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Despite President Obama’s promise to President Chavez that his administration wouldn’t interfere in Venezuela’s internal affairs, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is channeling millions into anti-Chavez groups.

Foreign intervention is not only executed through military force. The funding of “civil society” groups and media outlets to promote political agendas and influence the “hearts and minds” of the people is one of the more widely used mechanisms by the US government to achieve its strategic objetives.

In Venezuela, the US has been supporting anti-Chavez groups for over 8 years, including those that executed the coup d’etat against President Chavez in April 2002. Since then, the funding has increased substantially. A May 2010 report evaluating foreign assistance to political groups in Venezuela, commissioned by the National Endowment for Democracy, revealed that more than $40 million USD annually is channeled to anti-Chavez groups, the majority from US agencies.


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VENEZUELA

Venezuela stands out as the Latin American nation where NED has most invested funding in opposition groups during 2009, with $1,818,473 USD, more than double from the year before.

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FUNDING MEDIA AND JOURNALISTS

NED has also funded several media organizations in Venezuela, to aid in training journalists and designing political messages against the Venezuelan government. Two of those are the Institute for Press and Society (IPyS) and Espacio Publico (Public Space), which have gotten multimillion dollar funding from NED, USAID, and the Department of State during the past three years to “foster media freedom” in Venezuela.

What these organizations really do is promote anti-Chavez messages on television and in international press, as well as distort and manipulate facts and events in the country in order to negatively portray the Chavez administration.

More:
http://www.chavezcode.com/2010/08/us-interference-in-venezuela-keeps.html



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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 07:12 AM
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1. Schools here are cutting teachers, cutting hours, cutting everything...
...while the U.S. pours nearly 2 million dollars into rightwing groups in Venezuela, in 2009 alone!

What's wrong with this picture?

There are so many outrageous, anti-democratic, pro-fascist U.S. expenditures abroad--the $7 BILLION in military aid to Colombia comes to mind--that it's sometimes difficult to focus on any one of them. But this one in Venezuela is especially bad because of the lockstep psyops campaign against the Chavez government throughout the U.S.-dominated media establishment. USAID-funded rightwing groups in Venezuela promulgate the latest CIA "talking points," which then get trumpeted throughout the western world, like the New York Slimes' recent "Venezuela, More Violent Than Iraq," taken right from the CIA/Venezuelan opposition play book.

Meanwhile, our city and state governments are broke. We can't pay our emergency responders, our police, our teachers, our librarians, our environmental inspectors. Millions have lost their jobs, homes, medical care, pensions, savings. The Bushwhacks bankrupted us, in every way imaginable--and STILL we're paying for RIGHTWINGERS to organize against the hugely popular, honestly elected government of Venezuela.

Lewis Carroll had it right. We're living in an upside, inside out, backwards DELUSION.
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