Friday, April 25, 2008
Venezuelan Opposition Student Leader to Receive $500,000 Award from U.S. NGO
Venezuelan-U.S. lawyer Eva Golinger denounced on Thursday that awarding Goicoechea is a surreptitious way for the U.S. to continue funding the Venezuelan opposition, since traditional avenues for funds such as the National Endowment for Democracy have come under intense criticism since Venezuelan opposition groups which received these funds participated in the April 2002 coup and numerous destabilization efforts thereafter. The award “legitimizes capital that will be used to destabilize governments in Latin America. It is a way to filter money through supposedly clean institutions,” Golinger alleged.
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It looks like the U.S. took over where the Soviet Union left off. The Milton Friedman Prize awarded to Yon Goicoechea of Caracas, Venezuela, by the Cato Institute smacks of bribery in its worst form. If the Cato Institute was honest it should have awarded that PRIZE to Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore, but that was not the case. So we must immediately understand the reasons behind the Milton Friedman Prize, before going any further. It is an award given to those who act as agents provocateurs for the U.S. in other countries.
ReplyDeleteWhat Yon Goiciechea should have been awarded was the Benedict Arnold Prize for espionage. That would suit Yon Goicoechea to a tee. Here is a 23-year old student who does not think that working in the service of a foreign power is treason. Remember the Rosenberg's of Atomic Bomb fame? They too were misguided into working for the Soviet Union. What Yon Goicoechea really needs is to set his priorities in order, not serve the U.S. against his own homeland, Venezuela. Case closed.
Re: Yon Goicochea / Cato Institute: Goicochea is a total idiot and his "student movement" a middle-class rich kids joke. He fits perfectly into the picture of "opposition personalities" here, and of what people abroad want to see as the "new generation" defying Chávez. It is, of course, nothing else but a rather ridiculous move to continue financing the opposition. - I "hope" somebody in the government, somewhere, somewhen, wakes up to this reality
ReplyDeleteWell though out comments, however this could probably be the starting of a series of financial aids, correction this is not a loan, a giveaway money support to these types of orgs. against legitimate democratic elected governments, in which those can be disguised as scholarships, Prizes or else to try to make them look legitimate in the eyes of Mrs. Gollinger who will not hesitate to look right away into it
ReplyDeletethrough the U.S. freedom of information Act.