The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, delivered on Monday a protest note to the United Kingdom’s ambassador in the country, Andrew Soper, after an investigation revealed that British public funds were used to finance digital media and organizations without being authorized by the National Government.
“We delivered a note of protest to the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Venezuela, before publications appeared in the media about the use of British public funds for the financing of organizations and digital media in Venezuela, without informing the authorities of the country,” reported the Venezuelan Chancellor on his account on the Twitter social network.
Media such as El Universal, Globovisión, Contexto Diario, among others, released this week a study originally published by the British newspaper Daily Maverick (or Declassified-UK), which mentions a millionaire contract between the United Kingdom and some companies communication networks such as the Venezuelan website Efecto Cocuyo and the Fe y Alegría Radio Institute, as well as with the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP).
According to reports, the British government illegally financed these institutions under a new project to promote “investigative journalism” in Latin America, which, according to Daily Maverick, “covers Venezuela in a sneaky way.”
This project in the European country is destined, according to the press portals, to “influence the agenda of the media in the country”, and is part of the list of programs that use “independent media” journalism as a tool for social dominance.
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“We delivered a note of protest to the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Venezuela, before publications appeared in the media about the use of British public funds for the financing of organizations and digital media in Venezuela, without informing the authorities of the country.”
