U.S. aid stirring suspicion in Venezuela...

[bridgit]

'CARACAS, Venezuela - The U.S. government is spending millions of dollars in the name of democracy in Venezuela — bankrolling human rights seminars, training emerging leaders, advising political parties and giving to charities. But the money is raising deep suspicions among supporters of President Hugo Chavez, in part because the U.S. has refused to name many of the groups it's supporting.

Details of the spending emerge in 1,600 pages of grant contracts obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. The U.S. Agency for International Development released copies of 132 contracts in all, but whited out the names and other identifying details of nearly half the grantees.'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060826/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/dollars_for_democracy_5

[scarletwoman]

1. There's a great post by Peace Patriot in the LBN thread on this article

here

sw

[butterfly77]

2. They're at it again...

though they have been trying to interfere in this country all along. They are starting so many conflicts that I don't understand why some can't see that there is going to be a draft. They are setting up situations so that they will stay in power or so that they can leave it so bad that if democrats win then they will have to start a draft and then they think that they can blame the Dems for their problems.

[bridgit]

3. neocon/republicans just can't stop, they won't till the world is in...

ruins, piles of rubble

[madokie]

4. I would be very suspicious if I was Hugo, with this bush* cabal

it can't be on the up and up and you can take that to the bank with you as my dad would have said.

[bridgit]

5. you got that right, there's already been word Neil Bush has been...

haunting his oil rich rain forested areas now for sometime, that's the bfee money being spread around for missions very much less savory than some little office front with some the title of: 'bringing freedom fries & kleptocracy to the unwashed'