by Ramiro S.
FĂșnez
Part
3 - Doing the dirty work of Washington and Wall Street
Contrary to popular belief,
Venezuelan and Syrian opposition leaders are not impoverished,
working-class activists who act on their own will. They are
well-funded saboteurs armed and trained by bureaucrats in Washington
and their wealthy handlers on Wall Street.
Let’s start with Venezuela.
Since 2009, the U.S. Department of
State has allocated at least $49 million to the South American
country’s right-wing opposition, according to publicly-available
budget documents released by the State Department.
Washington has claimed the funds
support “democracy practitioners” and help “efforts
to preserve and expand democratic space through programs that
strengthen and promote civil society, citizen participation,
independent media, human rights organizations, and democratic
political parties.”
Yet almost all of those funds have
gone directly to opposition parties like Primero Justicia (Justice
First) and Voluntad Popular (Popular Will), both of which helped
organized violent protests that resulted in the deaths of at least 43
people in 2014 and 124 people this year.
Now, Syria.
Four years ago, former U.S.
President Barack Obama secretly began funding Wahhabi-linked Syrian
opposition militants, whom he described as “moderate rebels.” The
allocation of funds, which Obama claimed would be used to “degrade
and destroy” the Daesh terrorist group (ISIS), didn’t become
public until 2014, when the U.S. Congress gave final approval to
train and arm the FSA.
According to Foreign Policy
magazine, ironically one of many mainstream media publications that
blindly supported the so-called Syrian “revolution,” the United
States has spent over $500 million on financing the opposition since
Obama took office in 2009.
WikiLeaks, however, reported that
Washington has financed Syrian opposition members and institutions
since 2006 under former President George W. Bush.
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