National Assembly to limit funds for NGOs involved in politics

[Judi Lynn]

National Assembly to limit funds for NGOs involved in politics
NGOs related to social programs should cooperate with State policies
CARACAS, Thursday November 25, 2010

President Hugo Chávez's requests have been heard. On Tuesday evening, the Venezuelan Head of State said in the National Assembly: "I beg you to pass a very strict law" to prevent political parties groups and non-governmental organizations from being financed by the "US empire."

Roy Daza (ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV, state of Aragua), the President of the National Assembly's Foreign Policy Committee, said on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Parliament will discuss on December 1 a "final draft" of the Bill on International Cooperation.

The original text was approved in a first session on June 13, 2006. Although Daza did not provide further details, he hinted that the lawmakers will add several clauses before passing the bill. "Cooperation activities in Venezuela currently have a different scope than they had four years ago," the legislator said.

Daza summarized some of the new features to be included in the law. "We have to differentiate between most NGOs, which work in social policy areas, and those involved in political activities, because the latter try to replace the role of the State."

More:
http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/11/25/en_pol_esp_national-assembly-to_25A4775451.shtml
Opposition newspaper

[Mika]

1. "I beg you to pass a very strict law"

What kind of two-bit dicktater asks for a law to be passed?

Jeez, Hugo can't even dicktate.

:rofl:

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[Peace Patriot]

2. IT'S ABOUT TIME! The USAID has been funneling millions of our tax dollars into rightwing groups

in Venezuela and other Latin American countries. I've been hoping that Venezuela and other L/A countries would do something about this--since "We the People" in the USA have absolutely no say in what our government does with our money and in our name. Venezuela, like the U.S., has a law banning direct foreign contributions to political campaigns. (Remember, they dinged Clinton about political money from China.) But the U.S. and its overt and covert political interference agencies get around this law in Venezuela by funding phony "non-profit" groups that are actually fronts for rightwing politicians and causes and by providing "training" through such groups (training in destabilization, rioting, coups, as well as manipulation of the media with rightwing "talking points" and Big Lie propaganda techniques).

I've been wondering why Venezuela puts up with this, and what measures they could take to prevent it. They threw the DEA and other such U.S. agencies out of Venezuela long ago (and Evo Morales finally smartened up and threw them out of Bolivia). These were conduits of funding and organization for rightwing plots, as well as for spying. So a more complex system had to be devised to get U.S. taxpayer money and U.S. rightwing political "expertise" into Venezuela by other means--by having local fascists form the groups in such a way that they were not visible as rightwing political groups. The bitterest of ironies is that the CIA, USAID and other agencies operate these groups in Venezuela and other countries under the guise of "democracy-building." Translation: Multinational corporate/war profiteer "client state" building. Their purpose: To destroy leftist governments and democracy itself, because elected leftist governments DO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

Venezuela was just designated by the UN as THE MOST EQUAL COUNTRY IN LATIN AMERICA, as to income distribution. The U.S. supports the moneyed elite which, of course, loves egregious inequality and wants to rake off the oil profits for themselves and their class, after they've given most of it away to immensely wealthy megacorps like Exxon Mobile. Traitors, in other words. The U.S. supports those who would sell out their country and their poor countrymen for a buck; people who did just that, before, when they were in power (pre-Chavez); people who don't care about the education and health care and decent wages and pensions and civic participation of most Venezuelans. Our multinational corporate/war profiteers want client states where they don't have to compete, for instance, with smaller companies from around the world (such as Italy's ENI and Norways' Statoil)--as the Chavez government forces them to do--and they most certainly don't want to yield up one peso of their ungodly wealth to help the people to whom the oil belongs with education programs and so on. They want no accountability whatsoever for people or planet, and those who toady to them, within countries that have resources, are the ones whom the U.S. government utilizes billions of our money and every dirty trick in the book to install in power.

How to keep these foreign multimillions from flowing into rightwing groups in Venezuela? Some NGO's are NOT rightwing fronts. How do you sort them out? It's not an easy problem. But there is an overwhelming need to do it, given on-going U.S. interference, on behalf of monsters like Exxon Mobil.

[Zorro]

3. Guess Ronald McDonald House won't be able to subvert Venezuelan democracy any more

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[Peace Patriot]

5. And here's more: $385 million from the Pentagon for "psychological operations"

in Latin America, and nearly $770 million appropriated by the U.S. Congress for the State Department to create a special propaganda division for Latin America. These U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDS do not include the $30 million to rightwing groups through the USAID, mentioned above, and nobody really knows what the CIA is spending. A BILLION dollars and more of OUR MONEY is being spent to overthrow leftist democracies in Latin America, concerning which "We the People" here, in this so-called democracy, have absolutely no say. Most people don't know about it because the corpo-fascist press, in collusion with our multinational corporate/war profiteer rulers, doesn't inform them. If they did know about it, they would be appalled. No money for teachers and schools and libraries and roads and unemployment funds or any "common good" projects here, but PLENTY OF MONEY to fight dirty against "New Deal"-type governments in Latin America.

It is DISGUSTING.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5812

[Zorro]

8. Venezualanalysis.com is funded by the Venezuelan Information Office

but you knew that already.

It certainly can't be considered to be a propaganda arm of the Chavez government, can it?

[Zorro]

6. Damn those USAID subversives

for providing funding to Venezuelan human rights, labor, and business organizations, and political parties to encourage the spread of democratic ideals. They're obviously meddling in affairs that are not in the best interests of the Venezuelan people, since promoting human rights, business and labor interests, and spreading democratic ideals are part of a notoriously right-wing agenda.

Why can't they operate like the Cubans do, and simply get appointed to key positions in the areas of internal security and energy production? It's quite democratic for Chavez to make such appointments, since apparently there are no Venezuelans qualified to fill such roles.

It seems you would support the US terminating all humanitarian funding and aid to Venezuela -- and likewise to Bolivia, the poorest country in South America -- because it's obvious that neither country wants or needs any assistance. If both governments choose to reject such funding, it's OK with me.

Perhaps you should contact your congresscritters and demand the US cease all aid and assistance to both countries. The new Congress may be quite receptive to such a plan.

And yes, Ronald McDonald House has also been identified by Chavista politicians are part of the nefarious cabal dedicated to subverting the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez. To hell with them, I say!

[roody]

9. McDonalds subverting? Sounds totally plausible.

In some Latin American cities, Panama for example, you cannot walk two blocks without going by a McDonalds.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Oh, jeez! Undoubtedly it also means Cuba is in their sights now, too!

Horrible.

I heard WalMart has built a megastore on property extremely close to the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico.

The prospect of all those franchises cluttering the landscape in Latin America is so wrong. They should be forced to be satisfied with their stranglehold on their home country, period. Impossible, of course, when they can buy politicians in other countries who will look out for their interests.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Just thought of your post when I saw this headline:Number of obesity cases in Panama more than doubl

Panamá, domingo 28 de noviembre de 2010
Number of obesity cases in Panama more than doubles

According to figures from the Ministry of Health, the number of obesity cases in Panama went from 13,739 in 1999 to 34,394 in 2008.

Obesity is the cause of a number of health issues, such as hypertension, diabetes and heart and liver disease, said Flavia Fontes, coordinator of nutrition programs for the Ministry of Health.

According to the World Health Organization, the number of people in the world who are overweight is 1.6 billion, and 400 million suffer from obesity. Those numbers are expected to grow to 2.3 billion and 700 million, respectively, in the next five years.

Elias Elias Cabrera, national director of the Consumer Protection Authority, said local officials need to take urgent action, including controlling the advertising and promotion of "junk food."

http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2010/11/28/hoy/english/lifestyle_5488.asp

[roody]

12. What a shame. The Ronald McDonald house

is a very ironic idea. First, they give us cancer, then they want to "help" the sick kids.

[Judi Lynn]

7. "Ronald McDonald House"? That's your idea of a post? Really?

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