Venezuela: US NED money for subversion Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "Karen Lee Wald" "Small Grants" to Venezuela Organizations by National Endowment for Democracy http://www.ned.org/grants/00programs/grants-lac.html#Venezuela Year 2000 Venezuela The American Center for International Labor Solidarity: $60,084 To support the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) to effect reforms intended to increase rank and file control over decision making. ACILS will conduct courses for regional federations of the CTV, focusing on problems and challenges for unions in a changing world, restructuring of labor organizations, and establishing internal elections for union leadership. Center for International Private Enterprise: $56,000 To enable the Center for the Dissemination Economic Information (CEDICE) to promote an informed democratic debate on legislation affecting economic reform, taxes and private property. CEDICE will sponsor large-scale national and regional forums on legislation that is constitutionally required to be enacted in the National Assembly's first year of operation. Fundacion Momento de la Gente: $41,747 To help promote civilian oversight and transparency of the July 2000 elections. Fundacion Momento de la Gente conducted a pre-electoral monitoring campaign to monitor the use of public funds in the campaign, participated in the electoral audit committee, reviewed election materials, and trained election observers. International Republican Institute: $50,000 To work with Fundacion Participacion Juvenil to promote democratic participation of Venezuelan youth. PRODEL-Venezuela: $50,000 To promote and defend decentralization in Venezuela. PRODEL will establish and train a network of national and state legislators and mayors to monitor government decentralization activities, advocate for the rights and responsibilities of state and local government in Venezuela, and analyze and debate pending legislation affecting local government. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcari-04.17.02-23:40:23-13384