The “Pink Tide” of EU Aid: How Brussels Funds Woke Latin American NGOs Posing as “Civil Society”

For decades as it sought to tighten its worldwide grip, a concerted globalist front has matched operational tactics to ideological substance, honing the strength of transcending borders and boundaries. Across nations and institutions, its global networks work to ensure local offshoots gain, wield, and secure power anywhere and everywhere possible. This entails mutual support in laying out the groundwork for victories—in public opinion and otherwise—along with coordinated frontal attacks on their enemy: conservatives, patriots, and largely the right. Europe is the textbook scenario to this globalist playbook. Democratic principles are being thwarted to prevent the people’s will from installing patriots in power, recently and notoriously in France, by judicially barring a leading presidential candidate from running, and in Germany, through sundry attempts against the second party. Where that fails, the plan of last resort is overturning elections or toppling elected governments, such as in Poland up until 2023. The same playbook is being continuously carried out in Hungary since 2010, when Prime Minister Viktor Orbán led conservatives and Christian democrats to power. Upon successive opposition attempts in prior elections, including foreign-funded ones, the one now led by Péter Magyar’s Tisza party (EPP) labors under a cloud of suspicion—and too often, evidence—of serving as the new instrument of Brussels globalists in their pro-migration, pro-gender, and pro-war ploy against Hungary.

European institutions, led by the Commission and its president, are key to this playbook. They’ve cast themselves into a mistaken role: they choose to serve other interests rather than looking after those of Europeans. Instead of coordinating European policies, they impose their will—and a certain set of ideologies—by interfering in the affairs of member states, so that the plan’s political executioners hold power nationally. This is clearly the case of Donald Tusk’s government in Poland, but the more than decade-old attempt to secure a vassal government in Hungary obeys the same rationale. Yet it isn’t only in member states that the EU seeks to impose its woke-progressive ideology. It also seizes upon pre-existing channels of development aid to foment that ideology in third countries, which in turn creates a favorable climate for neo-Marxists in those regions. This study proves that shy of a billion euros of EU taxpayer’s money were spent on Latin American NGOs over the past decade, in substantial part to that end. They compounded torrents of “philanthropy” from the likes of George Soros and steady streams of public funds from USAID, the latter only recently halted.

Donald Trump’s victory has cut off the US firehose, and shed transparency on USAID’s long record of funding wokeism, progressivism, and the global plot against patriots. This has left the EU as the major public funder of the selfsame neo-Marxist NGOs in the region, a role in which it remains to date. This keeps happening, incidentally, while Hungary remains deprived of funds duly owed to it for protecting its borders from illegal migration, defending the family and children against gender ideology, and upholding peace. Europe’s invaluable assist has come amidst a palpable sea change that keeps rocking the region. Over the past decade, a new red wave has engulfed Latin America, led by the São Paulo Forum and Grupo de Puebla, a tandem akin to a “narco-communist international”. Analysts keep terming it a “pink tide” to align it with the ideological vogues of the West’s postmodern left, yet it is old Marxists who have come cloaked in the rainbow color palette, under the overarching cult of wokeism. These neo-Marxist elites now hold sway over much of the region. Their roadmap to dominance runs an unmistakable Gramscian playbook: a struggle for culture, language, and discourse as preconditions for seizing power and becoming entrenched within it.

The sustained patronage that EU institutions have directed to NGOs fostering the region’s woke agenda keeps buttressing the "pink tide" as it rips through the continent. The €939.5 million of EU taxpayers’ money this study highlights, handed out to 800-odd NGOs over ten years, has proved decisive in creating a favorable cultural climate for left-radical politicians and their discourse. If one thing is certain, it is that aid meant in theory to serve the region’s development needs has, in large part, been diverted towards a predetermined ideological agenda. In producing this groundbreaking and minute analysis of data flows and the identities of their beneficiaries, our Madrid office at the Center for Fundamental Rights (CFR) hopes to bring the rot to light.

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