La Alpargata Insolente del Extranjero
Expect to see Eva Golinger blow a gasket over this delicious bit of reporting by El Nuevo Herald, revealing that Citgo made campaign donations to both the Democratic and Republican parties in the 2002 election season. A $15,000 Citgo contribution apparently reached the GOP just two weeks before the April 2002 coup.
Citgo, just to refresh foreign readers’ memories, is a 100% Venezuelan owned oil company based in Tulsa (though soon moving to Houston.) Citgo is a “US-based” company, so I guess it’s not technically illegal for them to contribute to US political parties. It’s just irresistably delicious to write about, though, after the oceans of ink and, erm, gillions of pixels mobilized to castigate US for funding political groups in Venezuela.
Can you say rabo’e’paja??
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