The United States reiterated its willingness to finance rebel groups seeking to destabilize some countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a mechanism of political, economic and social integration created in 2004.
According to Mark Feierstein, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington gives priority to support opposition forces that “are fighting for human rights and democracy in those nations.”
He confirmed that the White House has a close relationship and provides funds for opposition groups based in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua (member countries of ALBA), without specifying figures, several media reported.
Feierstein statements reveal allegations of progressive governments and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean on the subversive nature of USAID programs in the region.
That agency, sometimes presented as an independent civil organization, served from 1961 in line with a strategy to counteract the U.S. aggressive image.