NGOs for the financing of terrorism

Published at: 15/08/2024 03:43 PM

There is increasing agreement between those who have been carrying out research on the behavior of NGOs and their use to finance terrorist events, in other words, they pay criminals to carry out violent actions such as burning schools, pharmacies, health centers and even people.

They are present in the funding of a significant number of national NGOs, a strategy to direct the action of these organizations towards political objectives that affect the legitimacy and political stability of countries' public institutions and, most especially, those of governments, as is the case of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

For imperial interests, those NGOs that carry out political activity within their countries are part of the North American strategy of destabilizing governments that maintain their political sovereignty, with which it pursues the following objectives:

• Justify the actions of permanent aggression by the United States against Venezuela.
• Contain Venezuela's influence in the region.
• Divide, conquer and recover the domination of the region.
• Justify a military invasion/intervention in Venezuela .
• Apply the doctrine of “Preventive War” against Venezuela.
• Preventing Latin American integration.

The silent work of NGOs in Venezuela

In the research carried out by sociologist Gladys Rojas, called “Metamorphosis of NGOs: The Socio-Political Role of NGOs in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela during the period 1999-2014” at the School of Social Management of the Ministry of Popular Power of Planning, she pointed out that a large part of the NGOs formed in Venezuela are used by the right to evade legal norms. As political parties cannot receive funding from private entities or foreign governments, opposition parties have created these NGOs as an appendix or financial arm to receive such support.

These seem to be the first steps taken by the promoters of this type of organization in the national territory to then legalize their situation in any North American state to obtain the necessary funding to allow them to carry out their covert destabilization action. This is documented by the above-mentioned research, which states the following:

New National Conscience , Present, Human and Free Future Foundation, and SÚMATE were first born as an NGO in Venezuela and years later they were registered in The United States as corporations. In fact, the main North American agency, the Office of Transition (USAID/OTI) was created in June 2002 to carry out this strategy and has awarded more than 50 million dollars to a larger number of 533 NGOs and parties through other related organizations, such as:

• International Republican Institute (IRI)
• National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Freedom House
• Development Alternatives, Inc. (GIVE IT)
• PanAmerican Development Foundation

The actions that these agencies promote are the following:

• Penetrating communities to promote the American model.
• Infiltration into revolutionary sectors and movements to create conflicts, exploit problems, weaken forces, promote anti-socialist values.
• Provoking violent or criminal actions or attitudes.
• Consolidation of a movement opposed to the construction of socialism.
• Strategic advice to political parties and NGOs to build their political platforms and communication strategies.
• Training of student political leaders and youth sectors to bring fresh (and controlled) faces to politics.
• Psychological operations: The use of journalists, media, networks and social movements to execute planned operations that transmit selected information and indicators to the Venezuelan people and the international community in order to influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and finally, the behavior of governments, organizations, groups and individuals, thus promoting a pro-American and counter-revolutionary agenda.
• Separatism: formation, funding and strategic support for separatist or “autonomous” movements with the intention of weakening national unity and achieving control over regions rich in natural resources. Creation of a regional separatist movement “The Regional Confederation for Regional Freedom and Autonomy” (CONFILAR): in the case of Venezuela, the state of Zulia must be remembered with the operation “Right Course”.

Thus, we see how the support provided by North American and European NGOs to NGOs in our countries is aimed at interests that go beyond aid to combat poverty, environmental protection and other areas of assistance, the ultimate interest is economic aid in exchange for cooperation, in the broad sense, with the American government or its big companies transnational corporations.

According to data provided by various national and international research organizations, it can be estimated that more than 70% of the funding received by national NGOs carrying out political destabilization activities in the country comes from transnational corporations and imperial states.

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team