23-07-2010, 06:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-07-2010, 07:02 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
US AID's "Office for Transition Initiatives", eh? Aka colour revolutions.
"Foreign aid" is one of a very few areas of the UK governtment budget strictly ringfenced and sheltered from draconian 25% cuts.
Why? Because much of this "foreign aid" is being used to, ahem, "bolster democracy" in countries such as Afghanistan. In short, to build infrastructure and buy local militias, thus enabling NATO troops eventually to be sent home (or such is the overt plan, anyway).
Chavez should retaliate by opening up a Venezeuelan Office for Transition Initiatives Washington DC and London.
Quote:More funds have been distributed to anti-Chavez political groups in Venezuela through USAID’s Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Caracas, which has an annual budget between $5-7 million USD. These millions form part of the more than $40 million USD given annually to opposition organizations in Venezuela by US, European and Canadian agencies, as evidenced in the May 2010 report, “Venezuela: Assessing Democracy Assistance” published by the National Edowment for Democracy’s World Movement for Democracy (WMD) and Spain’s FRIDE Institute.
PADF has been active in Venezuela since 2005 as one of USAID’s principal contractors. PADF was created by the State Department in 1962 and is “affiliated” with the Organization of American States (OAS). In Venezuela, PADF has been working to “strengthen local civil society groups”, and is “one of few major international groups that have been able to provide significant cash grants and technical assistance to Venezuelan NGOs”.
"Foreign aid" is one of a very few areas of the UK governtment budget strictly ringfenced and sheltered from draconian 25% cuts.
Why? Because much of this "foreign aid" is being used to, ahem, "bolster democracy" in countries such as Afghanistan. In short, to build infrastructure and buy local militias, thus enabling NATO troops eventually to be sent home (or such is the overt plan, anyway).
Chavez should retaliate by opening up a Venezeuelan Office for Transition Initiatives Washington DC and London.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war