Venezuela’s opposition has been showing signs of splintering in recent weeks, with opposition figures less and less well-aligned some nine months after their failed attempt at imposing regime change.
With the Trump Administration having committed to the opposition, they are apparently not giving up on the increasingly unlikely hope for regime change. Trump met with opposition figures on the sidelines of the UN, and has announced plans to provide another $52 million in funds for them.
The $52 million will be provided through USAID. Opposition leader Juan Guaido says that Venezuela won’t be directly administering the funds, since they don’t have a comptroller, and the US will decide where the money goes.
USAID says the money will go to “independent” media and the opposition-controlled National Assembly. USAID has a long history of funneling its money toward political trickery, and some of this will probably be meant to try to foment another attempt at a military coup.
VZ is not our problem. Our problem us our own arrogance. Good Lord. Could we please stop meddling in the affairs of others? We can’t even manage our own country.
The Republicans I know all approve of overthrowing Maduro, and bringing in the corporations.
Antar, Maduro is a POS,,,as to the corporations, they can go to ####.
I would guess whenever those “opposition” guys have to stay in the US, they stay in trump hotels……
Dave, they will not “have” to stay there. Why do you always drink the kool aide of the fake news and radical left?
Oh, Jay, if your innocence wasn’t so dangerous, it would be sweet. Without Washington money, there would be no “opposition” raising ruckus. Money comes from trump, so of course they stay at his hotels.
Dave, Congress controls the purse strings. 🙂
To the extent they write the budget (signed by potus). Once in the budget, the Administrator (potus appointee) manages the USAiD allocations. This funneling to the opposition is all on trump, and he said so.
Dave, So you think Trump is doing this for the money, even though he takes no pay and has nothing to do with his real estate holdings while he is POTUS?
Really Jay ? trump gives taxpayer money to Maduros’ people. They come to the US to talk about where trump wants them to spend it, and when they can get more. They have to stay somewhere, near trump most likely. They stay at a trump hotel, give money to trump jr. Then, when trump is no longer president, trump jr signs all the money back to trump. Not that complicated.
Dave, you are so mistaken, so far out there…..
USAID for regime change, lol, I thought USAID was an anti-poverty aid organization for famine and disaster relief. The irony here is that we accuse Cuba of sending doctors to Venezuela as ‘imperialism’ to increase their influence and make the same accusation against Maduro’s food program.
If we make an accusation against a country you can be certain that we are doing it ourselves. That is the only reason such evil thoughts even enter our minds.
If they diagrammed out the distribution of these funds, the diagram would look like a proverbial rat’s nest. I can just imagine the numbers of slicksters, BS artists, and connected relatives that will be grabbing for a chunk. True – it is wasted US taxpayer money, but the only good thing is that it might ignite true flames of dissent amongst these bums over who gets what.
52 $Mill,,,just like that,,no wonder we are going broke!! How I despise the DC GHOULS………….every last one of them.