[Peptobismol]

Being connected to Hugo Chavez, that's how.

http://www.thecommentator.com/articl...ign_interests_

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...t-chavez-link/

From news article:
The Commentator was the first to break the story about Eva Golinger, an American/Venezuelan national and vocal Chavez/anti-democracy advocate, being active in the beginning of the OWS protests in New York. Now, further evidence has come to light to corroborate the initial story.

A group called the Alliance for Global Justice has emerged to fill the void of leadership in the OWS movement. On their web site, they have created a button to donate to the movement with the following message;

“Alliance for Global Justice is the fiscal sponsor for Occupy Wall Street. All donations made through this page are tax deductible. Thank you for supporting social justice and giving to Occupy Wall Street!”

As this is written, AfGJ has raised a total of $187,949.22 for OWS. But interestingly, the AfGJ is also the most radical, pro-Chavez organization in the United States.

It has four core projects. The most important project is the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign which proposes to, “to expose and oppose US government and corporate intervention in Venezuela’s sovereign affairs; to mobilize US residents to demand that relations between the two countries be based on peace and respect; and, to promote people-to-people exchanges between our two countries.”

Another project they call the “Respect for Democracy” states, as one of its major goals, the closure of “the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy.” (sic)

The Congressionally funded NED is of course the United States’ premier democracy promotion office which enjoys a Congressional earmark and bipartisan support. Its four core offices are the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise and the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center.

Despite its excellent work (indeed, probably because of it) this office has been a primary target of Chavez’s anti-Americanism and the focus of many vitriolic attacks by Golinger.

One of the AfGJ’s National Co-Coordinators is Chuck Kaufman who, according to his bio on the web site, “has been a leader of the Central and Latin America solidarity movements since joining the staff of the Nicaragua Network in 1987.”