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Apr 10

2013

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Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Catholic Church Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) Coup Democracy Federation of Business Chambers (Fedecamaras) Free Trade of the Americas Act (FTAA) Hugo Chávez Frías National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Venevision

REFLECTION: APRIL 11, 2002 | Venezuela: Coup and Countercoup, Revolution

"The NED quadrupled its funding to Venezuelan groups, such as Fedecamaras and the CTV labor federation, along with a series of NGOs plotting Chavez’s ouster. A State Department cable from the first week of March 2002 claimed « Another piece falls in to place » and applauded the opposition’s efforts to finally create a plan for a transitional government...These events changed Venezuela forever and awoke the consciousness of many who had underestimated the importance and vulnerability of their Revolution."

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Jun 25

2012

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NED | National Endowment for Democracy, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, USAID

AFL-CIO Bogotá Bolivia CIA Columbia Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) FEDECAMARAS FENSUAGRO Haiti NED | National Endowment for Democracy neoliberalism Nicaragua USAID Venezuela

USAID Grants $3 Million to Solidarity Center’s Bogotá Office – Unionists Want to Know Why

"The NED exists for one reason–to manipulate governments, social movements and elections in other countries in order to advance the international policies of the US which, in turn, are designed to accommodate private access to natural resources and increase transnational corporate profits. In an interview with the New York Times in 1991, Allen Weinstein, one of the NED’s founders, said that, 'A lot of what we do today was done covertly by the CIA.'”

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