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Latin America

Judi Lynn

(164,095 posts)

2. Nice try, and typical.

Reply to naaman fletcher (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 02:45 PM

Jan 2013

Sourcewatch:

Funding Sources

Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF's budget was primarily provided by "US organizations strictly linked with US foreign policy" (Thibodeau, La Presse).

NED (US$39,900 paid 14 Jan 2005)
Center for a Free Cuba (USAID and NED funded) $50,000 per year NED grant. Contract was signed by Otto Reich
European Union (1.2m Euro) -- currently contested in EU parliament
Rights & Democracy in 2004 supported Reporters Without Borders-Canada [1]

"Grants from private foundations (Open Society Foundation, Center for a Free Cuba, Fondation de France, National Endowment for Democracy) were slightly up, due to the Africa project funded by the NED and payment by Center for a Free Cuba for a reprint of the banned magazine De Cuba." [2]

Principal focus of RSF activities

Cuba
Venezuela
Haiti

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reporters_Without_Borders

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Thirty Berlusconis – South American giant’s flawed media landscape [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2013 OP

Reporters without borders demands a lot more respect than it deserves naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #1

Nice try, and typical. Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #2

I don't understand your comments naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #4

Right on. ocpagu Jan 2013 #3