George Bush and the US Government has lied all about this. Here we go overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world and in the US. Boston Globe:
CARACAS – Over the two years preceding the thwarted coup in April against President Hugo Chavez, a US-funded prodemocracy group financed a range of antigovernment programs, including some that have come under scrutiny for the way they spent their money.
An examination of grants of more than $1 million, given to organizations in Venezuela by the National Endowment for Democracy, has found that US tax money financed several Chavez opponents, including two organizations prominent in the protests that led up to the coup. The documents and interviews also report that money sent to one US-funded organization never reached its intended target and that another organization apparently falsified its Venezuelan accomplishments.
I am glad they financed them, when a Government misplaces US$ 2.3 billion and finances pro-Government marches with those funds, it means democracy needs helps. I know the groups that were funded, one was a Labor movemenet which teh Government wanted to squash by not recognizing they won the union elections (They won 3-1, to this day they are not recognized). The other is an incipient political party that has 4 Congressmen and four mayors, all the mayors have 80+% popularity. One of them, see my blog, is being follwoed by the intelligenece police. Please send more money.