Milei says USAID would have influenced elections in Brazil

Milei used the pronouncement to criticize the leftist agenda in the Americas and endorsed the thesis, even without evidence, that the 2022 presidential elections suffered interference from US -subsidized NGOs. “The multiple NGOs, which live from our taxes, from subsidies to culture to produce propaganda and here in the United States, the USAID scandal, which allocated millions of dollars of tax payers to fund television magazines and channels, electoral frauds such as no Brazil or governments with discriminatory aspirations such as South Africa “.

The conjecture of a possible external interference in the Brazilian election three years ago gained repercussion after an interview given by Mike Benz, former head of the United States State Department’s computer sector during the first Trump government. According to him, USAID would have reinforced foreign funding to “large Brazilian institutions” from 2018 to undermine the Bolsonaro government, considered by the agency as “undemocratic”.

Earlier this month, Benz’s speech had an effect in Brasilia. Deputies Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO) and Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) began a political movement, with the collection of signatures, for the installation of a Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) to investigate the case.

“We need the full signatures to call these NGOs, political figures and state authorities to clarify how this interference from political debate, censorship, channels and profiles were made during the elections, including within the press itself,” he said Gayer, on February 5th.