Information about the grants has been obtained following a Freedom of Information request by the Associated Press. USAID released copies of 132 contracts but obscured the names and other identifying details of nearly half the organisations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tThe Office of Transition Initiatives, which also works in such priority countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bolivia and Haiti, has overseen more than $26m in grants to groups in Venezuela since 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb Among the grants detailed in the information are: one for $47,459 for a democratic leadership campaign; $37,614 for citizen meetings to discuss a shared vision for society; and one of $56,124 to analyse Venezuela’s new constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb What this indicates is that there is a great deal of money, a great deal of concern to oust or neutralise Ch\u00e1vez, said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Coha) in Washington yesterday. The US is waging diplomatic warfare against Venezuela. He said that while the US had accused Mr Ch\u00e1vez of destabilising Latin American countries, the term destabilisation more aptly applied to what the US was trying to do to Mr Ch\u00e1vez.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb It’s trying to implement regime change, Eva Golinger, a Venezuelan-American lawyer who wrote The Ch\u00e1vez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela, told AP. There’s no doubt about it. I think the US government tries to mask it by saying it’s a noble mission. She added: It’s too suspicious to have such a high level of secrecy.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 30 ao\u00fbt 2006 \u00e0 12H27<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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