What do NGOs use USAID resources for?

Published at: 14/02/2025 07:21 PM

There is increasing agreement among those who have been carrying out research on the political behavior of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , in relation to the use of the resources they receive from both the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Foundation for Democracy (NED) and manage these institutions to direct their actions towards objectives that affect the legitimacy and political stability of governments, as is the case of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

These NGOs, which carry out activities within countries, are part of the North American strategy of destabilizing governments that maintain their political sovereignty, with which it pursues the following objectives: j justify actions of permanent aggression by the United States against Venezuela; j justify a military invasion/intervention; to apply the doctrine of “Preventive War” against our country and of preventing Latin American integration.

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 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 to be the financial arm for receiving 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. Any country can provide the necessary funding to allow it to carry out its covert destabilization action. This is documented by the research mentioned above, in which it is stated that New National Consciousness; Future, Present, Human and Free Foundation; and Súmate were first born as NGOs in Venezuela and years later were registered in the United States as corporations.

In fact, the main North American agency, the Transitional Office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID/OTI) created in June 2002 to carry out this strategy, has granted 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. (DAI), and the PanAmerican Development Foundation.

The actions promoted by these agencies are the following: Penetration into communities to promote the American model; infiltration into revolutionary sectors and movements to create conflicts, exploit problems, weaken forces, promote anti-socialist values; provocation of violent or criminal actions or attitudes; consolidation of an opposition movement; 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 and the payment of psychological operations such as the use of journalists, media and social movements to carry out planned operations that transmit selected information and indicators to the people Venezuelan 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 counterrevolutionary agenda .

The question then arises: Will they need to be regulated? Would an NGO that works in this way operate quietly in the United States? Why do they insist on interference? Venezuelans are determined to be free and we cannot allow activities to continue to be carried out in our territory that go against national peace and threaten the development of the Revolution.

AMELYREN BASABE/ Mazo News Team