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My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You're proving OP correct by responding with orgs like Directorio Legislativo:

Directorio Legislativo is a civil society organization based in Argentina and the United States that has been working for more than fifteen years to strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Geographical area in which it works: DL has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Washington DC, USA. We are a regional organization with projects both in Argentina and other Latin American countries. We capture and share regulatory news and information from the governments and legislatures 19 countries (Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela)

[+] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dude the source is fine. It has one arm in the United States. Runs as a non-profit and only takes 30% of funding from any one source. Are you saying anything that touches the US isn't legitimate?

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Directorio Legislativo

https://directoriolegislativo.org/en/who-we-are/

María Baron Global Executive Director

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow

https://www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fascell-democracy-fellows-program/

https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-a-second-cia/

In 1991, one of the founders of NED, Allen Weinstein, stated that much of NED’s work involves doing what the CIA used to do. Some, in fact, refer to NED as the “second CIA.”

Just have to scratch the surface a little bit to see the imperialist connection here. I'd implore you to not just take the surface-level info from NGOs without understanding the interests they serve.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

I'm saying that the US Empire has a long history of trying to manufacture consent to overturn governments in Latin America by funding NGOs and setting them up, training them, etc. It doesn't matter if they only take 30% funding from any one source, that has no bearing on their purpose as an org, which is to "ensure democracy" by concocting a narrative that fits alongside the US Empire "bringing democracy" to any country that dares to nationalize its resources or otherwise go against US Imperialism.