Cabello on the NGO Act: It's a space for legality, transparency and justice

Published at: 15/08/2024 02:58 PM

This Thursday, August 15, the head of the Homeland Bloc of the National Assembly (AN), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, assured that the Law on Oversight, Regularization, Action and Financing of Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-Profit Social Organizations was an outstanding debt to the People to continue with legality, transparency and justice in Venezuela.

“This law was like a default that we had for quite some time (...) this law is a space for legality, for transparency and for justice,” Cabello said during statements to the media in the spaces of the Federal Legislative Palace, after the approval of the Law.

It also reaffirmed the sovereignty of Venezuela to legislate and implement its legal system, in the face of the hypocrisy of some countries and international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) that came out to question the approval of the above-mentioned Law.

He pointed out that Venezuela is not the first country to have a legal system to oversee Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). “The European Union (EU) prohibits the use of Russian funds, many countries have made their legal systems to see where the funds (from NGOs) come from, and that's what we have done, a law to review where the funds come from and that those funds they receive are used for what they were requested,” he said.

In this way, he indicated that NGOs cannot use funds to finance terrorism or to usurp the functions of political parties, as they have done on previous occasions. “I feel that we are going to move from a period of opacity, of turbulence and of disorder in this matter, to a stage of order, of justice, above all of justice,” he said and reaffirmed that NGOs that were dedicated to financing guarimbas and destabilization, breaking with the legal forms of any country, will no longer be able to.

He recalled that even if they are NGOs, they depend on the government of the United States and the EU, but now the corresponding bodies will be responsible for carrying out the checks on the funds received and how they use them. He also added that the Law contemplates an order for NGOs that operate from foreign territory.

Mazo News Team