Ok remember how last week Oil Wars published this funny takedown of Transparency International and their ridiculously untransparent report trashing Venezuela’s oil company that turned out to be all wrong? Today the story got picked up by The Guardian, and intrepid reporter Calvin Tucker calls them up and asks them about it and they hilariously stonewall and lie to him. Transparency International!
Oh and also there’s this part about Mercedes de Freitas, the head of TI’s Caracas bureau, and what she was up to during that pesky coup d’etat:
"... on the night of April 12 - after Carmona suspended the assembly - Mercedes de Freitas, a director of the Fundacion Momento de la Gente, a legislative monitoring project subsidized by NED [National Endowment for Democracy, a US government agency], emailed the endowment defending the military and Carmona, claiming the takeover was not a military coup."So her role was to…obscure?...muddy the waters?....opacify? Transparency International! Seriously Alanis Morissette should dedicate a song to these people.
Friday Morning Update: Oil Wars has still more. Fun times!
