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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Directorio Legislativo

https://directoriolegislativo.org/en/who-we-are/

María Baron Global Executive Director

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow

https://www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fascell-democracy-fellows-program/

https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-a-second-cia/

In 1991, one of the founders of NED, Allen Weinstein, stated that much of NED’s work involves doing what the CIA used to do. Some, in fact, refer to NED as the “second CIA.”

Just have to scratch the surface a little bit to see the imperialist connection here. I'd implore you to not just take the surface-level info from NGOs without understanding the interests they serve.