thanks to Willam Grigsby and the team of Radio La Primerísima
Funds from the United States and Europe given by individuals, associations and NGOs to carry out illicit activities that threaten the stability of the country continue to come to public light. On June 30, Radio La Primerísima's Sin Fronteras showed details like a list of journalists, radio and magazine directors who received thousands of dollars from USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and from right-wing European governments that finance political and media campaigns in different parts of the world.
On this list is Álvaro Leiva Sánchez, of the so-called Nicaraguan Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ANPDH), which is headed by Monsignor Abelardo Mata.
In the period 2017-2018, Álvaro Leiva received US$ 84,723 from Europe for an alleged program to strengthen democracy through the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation. The ANDPH had a very an important role in the 2018 coup attempt: it was the organization that most inflated false data on dead, wounded, detained and disappeared. The ANPDH was founded in Miami in 1986 and financed by the US Congress as part of its program to support the Nicaraguan resistance (Contra) during the Sandinista government.
Journalist Eduardo Montenegro, owner of NOTIMATV and his spouse Sandra Elena Martínez, both from Matagalpa also received funding from USAID through the Chamorro Foundation. Montenegro received US$22,341 and Martínez US$16,363, on January 1st 2018 to provide fake news before and during the coup. In Carazo, Mynor García and Eliézer Blass, the latter editor of the magazine Analítica, received funds: US$ 8,328 to García and US$12,632 to Blass, both so-called independent journalists. The funds were granted by USAID and paid through the Chamorro Foundation for their work on social networks and platforms. Argentina Olivas director of Radio Vos received US$12,372; Martha Celia Hernández of Radio ABC received US$13,824; journalist Juan Carlos Duarte received US$9,741 on March 17, 2018 just before the beginning of the coup. Roberto Mora Cárcamo of Radio ABC received US$14,936 and Máximo Rugama of the Asociación de Periodistas del Norte received US$9,650. William Solís Sevilla of Telenorte de Estelí received US$78,470 on Aug. 31, 2018.
William Grigsby on Sin Fronteras said that all of this is just part of the money laundering headed by the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and FUNIDES foundations, whose owners are currently under investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Below are receipts indicating that the sources of the funds paid out by the Violeta Chamorro Foundaiton originated not only from the referenced USAID programs but also from the European Union, from US government satellite bodies like the National Democratic Institute and from the International Republican Institute. These funds are just a very small part of the multi-million dollar funding of Nicaragua's opposition media, opposition human rights organizations and non profits illegally involved in political activities, often promoting lethal violence, all funded directly or indirectly by the governments of the United States and its European allies.
