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US interference in Venezuela keeps growing By Eva Golinger

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By Eva Golinger
Postcards from the Revolution
Aug 4, 2010

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.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by congressional legislation on November 6, 1982. It’s mandate was anti-communist and anti-socialist and its first mission, ordered by President Ronald Reagan, was to support anti-Sandinista groups in Nicaragua in order to remove that government from power. NED reached its goal after 7 years and more than $1 billion in funding to build an anti-Sandinista political coalition that achieved power.

Today, NED’s annual budget, allocated under the Department of State, exceeds $132 million. NED operates in over 70 countries worldwide. Allen Weinstein, one of NED’s original founders, revealed once to the Washington Post, “What we do today was done clandestinely 25 years ago by the CIA…”

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via Postcards from the Revolution: US INTERFERENCE IN VENEZUELA KEEPS GROWING

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  12. It would seem that what is being funded by the US government is not only unconstitutional and a violation of international law; therefore, the most effective way to stop uch blatant violations would be for a US Congressman or Senator to bring suit in the Supreme Court to stop such flagrant violations. The obvious candidates to bring such a suit would be Dennis Kucinich, Dr. Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders.

    This would be the most rapid and effective way to stop actions of this sort and wold bring it the attention that it rightly deserves.

    Ralph Nader would be the ideal attorey to handle such a case.

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