Washington Financing Venezuela Opposition
Using US government declassified documents, US attorney Eva Golinger said it was at very least ó suspicious ó that the US is funding Venezuelan opposition groups, given Washington ó s hostility to the President Hugo Chavez administration.

Golinger specifically denounced the US financing of Sumate, an organization that unified the Venezuelan opposition, to the tune of $53,400 in 2003 and $107,000 in 2005-06, just from the National Endowment for Democracy.

The State Department s USAID (Agency for International Development) also granted the opposition group, in four month bits, a total of more than half a million dollars in 2003.

Venezuela s Civil Leadership and Vision Association opposition group also receives money from the US Department of State, noted Golinger. In 2003, 42,207 dollars were granted to that group for a ó Police Civic Education Program ó , as well as 56,000 dollars in 2004 for human rights training for police.