U.S. is directing ‘aid’ to subvert democracy in Venezuela

August 26th, 2006 at 19:35 Björn Hallberg

Most of the millions in ‘aid’ is being channeled through the allegedly unbiased USAID. A joke in itself of course. Half of the grantees are classified in the documents obtained by the Associated Press and the meddling might force the Venezuelan government to pass a law requiring NGOs to reveal the sources of their funding. Exactly what Russia did a while back and much for the same reason.

How do we know there is anything to the suspicions of U.S. meddling? Well for one, it wouldn’t be the first time Washington has played this card. In fact it has been done do death.

“It’s trying to implement regime change. There’s no doubt about it. I think the U.S. government tries to mask it by saying it’s a noble mission,” said Eva Golinger, a Venezuelan-American lawyer who wrote “The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela,” a book that cites public documents to argue that Washington is systematically trying to overthrow Chavez.

Golinger sees parallels in past U.S. campaigns, partly covert, to aid government opponents in countries from Nicaragua to Ukraine. “It’s too suspicious to have such a high level of secrecy,” she said.

“It’s very hard to accept an innocent directing of those funds,” said Bill Monning, a law professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. “We would scream bloody murder if any outside force were interfering in our internal political system.”

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