A document revealed by Wikileaks in its account on social network X, reveals support to independent media as part of the financing provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in terms of an alleged assistance to democracy and governance since the 1980s. “The United States government is now the largest public donor to the development of independent media worldwide,” the document said.
According to an informative sheet of the USAID that is no longer available on the Internet, in 2023 the agency financed training and supporting 6,200 journalists, helped 707 non -state media and supported 279 civil society organizations in the sector of the sector of the sector of the sector Media dedicated to strengthening independent media. The 2025 foreign aid budget included $ 268,376,000 assigned by Congress to support “the independent media and the free flow of information,” he published Reporters without border in its web portal.
After the facade of promoting “press freedom”the USAID invested billions of dollars for more than two decades at NGO and related media, molding pro -American narratives in strategic regions.
In his article “Press Freedom Under Threat” (2023), the USAID provided its support for media classified as “independent” as guarantors of democracy. However, now a sophisticated interference strategy is discovered in the world media ecosystem, the web portal refers medium.
Reporters without borders They point out that the USAID was the main donor of the Ukrainian media, where 9 out of 10 media depend on subsidies and the USAID.
An article of Nacla He argues that the US has granted an approximate sum of 26 million dollars for programs aimed at strengthening media, promoting journalists and freedom of expression, in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Venezuela. In the last ten years, the figure passes 67 million.
The USAID and the Venezuelan media
Since the Bolivarian Revolution began, it has been denounced that media campaigns against the Government, receive foreign financing. But in 2024, during the television program with Maduro+, testimonies were provided directly to Venezuelan media with the USAID.
During a conversation with Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, President Nicolás Maduro directly pointed to the media as is, the whistle, cocuyo effect, “they are each of these portals, founded and financed by the USAID, they have positioned … they were imposing their parallel reality. ”
The president referred to the National Broady occurred on August 30, 2024, as well as the post -electoral demonstrations of July 29 and 30, stating that the media to which he mentioned incurred “manipulation”.
“They have positioned them and then put them in a network so that they were the portals that imposed manipulation at the right time. Be it in a mass blackout, whether in a massive attack like July 29 and 30, etc. ”Maduro added.
The information released by the president, has his livelihood in the revelation that much of the money provided by the USAID to the internship of Guaidó, went to “independent media.”
This list was corroborated by the members of the National Assembly of Venezuela, where on Tuesday the debate was held to repudiate the interference and financing of this agency that acts illegally in other countries. In particular, the opposition deputy José Brito He mentioned by their names and surnames who from social communication became agents of foreign powers and charged in cash for their supposed independent work in the Venezuelan media.
In this regard, the President of the National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez He commented that between 2018 and 2025, all the events “that are currently presenting these large media conglomerates, such as CNN, the Wradio or the Washington Post as if they were occurred yesterday have been indicated. “They look like a newspaper yesterday,” he said.
“We point out all the events that are now appearing in the main media as if they had occurred yesterday, but their fundamental objective was They have no remedy or because they explode in their face the evidence or they are not interested or because it is harmless. Then it is there when they present the case with testimonies of criminals and criminals such as Antonio Sequea or Reyner María Rico, aka Pico ”.
The USAID is indicated by the United States itself of being an instrument of American intervention under the “humanitarian aid” costume. It has been pointed out that the embezzlement associated with the USAID is a development issue, especially after the declassification of documents by the Donald Trump government, which reveal more about their influence and operations in Venezuela.
Musk and Trump want to close the USAID
Last week, Magnate Elon Musk, now in charge of the Doge said that President Donald Trump agreed that the United States Agency for International Development that distributes billions of dollars in humanitarian aid and funds for development annually, It must “close.”
“The USAID It has been directed by a group of radical lunatics, and we are taking them out, and then we will make a decision ”about his future, Trump said to be consulting on this decision.
On February 3, the president of the USA, Donald Trump, appointed the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as an interim administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and billionaire Elon Musk, It was appointed by Trump as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), whose main function will be to reduce unnecessary expenditure and eliminate unnecessary regulations. The organization was created by executive order on January 20, 2025.
The first results of Musk’s work, in some cases transfers that the tycoon has denounced as inappropriate. Some of these transfers dot directly to organizations linked to the Venezuelan opposition and the failed internship of Juan Guaidó and his accomplices in the US and Spain, as well as the primary elections of the Venezuelan right and the financing of the Sumate organization or the dispossession of some assets from Venezuela abroad, such as the Citgo company and monomers, among others.
