Lucky_777 comments on My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

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[+] Lucky_777@lemmy.world -17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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?

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.