Western NGO Demands Venezuela 'Restructure' Social Programs
Western NGO Demands Venezuela 'Restructure' Social Programs
Published 22 January 2016 (8 hours 36 minutes ago)
Transparency International has joined forces with Venezuelan right-wing legislators to call for major changes to the country's welfare programs.
An NGO run by a supporter of the short lived 2002 military coup held a conference in Venezuela Friday to discuss restructuring the country's social programs or “missions.”
The conference was hosted by Transparency International's Venezuela chapter, which claimed there was an “urgent” need to “transform” Venezuela's popular social missions.
“Since their creation, the missions have cost hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars without obtaining the improvements the population needs,” the organization claimed in a statement.
Venezuela's social missions have been credited by the United Nations for dramatically improving living conditions for Venezuela's poor, including reducing malnutrition and eradicating illiteracy.
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Transparency International's Venezuela chapter is headed by Mercedes de Freitas, who previously managed an NGO funded by the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy. Freitas supported the short lived 2002 coup. At the time, Freitas argued the overthrow couldn't be considered a military coup. The overthrow temporarily replaced President Nicolas Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez with a junta of business and military leaders, and suspended democratic institutions including the courts and constitution.
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