Explosive Revelations: Venezuelan Narco Regime Donated $20 Million to Black Lives Matter Founders

Washington, D.C. — October 29, 2025  A high-ranking defector from Venezuela's Chavista regime claims the late socialist leader Hugo Chávez personally funneled at least $20 million in cash-stuffed suitcases to co-founders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in late 2012. The alleged infusion of funds, sourced from a narco-trafficking network embedded within the Venezuelan government, was purportedly aimed at exporting "Bolivarian revolutionary" ideology to U.S. streets, sowing division and undermining American democracy from within.

The account, detailed in a sweeping investigative report by the Washington Examiner, draws from an unnamed defector who was present at the clandestine handover in Caracas' Miraflores Palace. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to ongoing cooperation with U.S. authorities, the source described Chávez—then in the final stages of his battle with cancer—summoning BLM co-founder Opal Tometi to a private suite known as the "Japanese Suite." Accompanied by three other African American activists and Hollywood actor Danny Glover, a vocal supporter of leftist regimes in Latin America, Tometi reportedly received the illicit bounty with explicit instructions."

Chávez ordered his people to hand the suitcases to them, suitcases filled with dollars, at least $20 million," the defector recounted. "Chávez told them that the money was to project the Bolivarian revolutionary project on U.S. streets." This "project," according to the testimony, was code for fueling Marxist-inspired unrest to erode U.S. stability, mirroring tactics long attributed to the Venezuelan regime's alliances with groups like Hezbollah and the FARC guerrilla insurgency.

The revelations come amid escalating U.S.-Venezuela tensions under President Donald Trump's second administration. Just weeks ago, American forces sank two Venezuelan speedboats suspected of narco-trafficking in the Caribbean, part of a broader campaign targeting the "Cartel of the Suns"—a shadowy military cartel accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of flooding American markets with cocaine and fentanyl precursors. Maduro, indicted on narco-terrorism charges since 2020 with a $50 million bounty on his head, has branded the strikes "extrajudicial killings" and mobilized 4.5 million civilian militiamen in response.

Experts on Latin American affairs caution that while the defector's claims align with declassified U.S. intelligence on Venezuela's global meddling, they remain unverified by independent evidence. "This fits a pattern of Caracas backing far-left agitators abroad, from Antifa-linked groups to São Paulo Forum events," said Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of the Examiner piece. "But without receipts or wire transfers, it's a he-said-she-said straight from the regime's inner circle.

"BLM's origins trace to 2013, sparked by the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Co-founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Tometi have openly embraced Marxist principles, with Cullors describing herself as a "trained Marxist" and Tometi citing influences like Assata Shakur, the Black Panther exile sheltered in Cuba. Public records show Tometi's ties to Venezuela: In 2015, she hosted Maduro at a Harlem event alongside Glover and issued a BLM manifesto praising the "Bolivarian revolution." That same year, she served as an electoral observer for Venezuela's parliamentary vote, a process later condemned as fraudulent by the Organization of American States.

Critics on the left dismiss the allegations as recycled right-wing propaganda, pointing to BLM's $90 million haul from corporate donors in 2020 alone—funds that fueled both activism and controversy over executive spending on luxury properties. "This is the same playbook used to smear solidarity between global Black movements," said a spokesperson for the BLM Global Network Foundation, reached for comment. "Venezuela's anti-imperialist stance resonates with marginalized communities, but equating a 2012 meeting—if it happened—with regime funding is a stretch designed to delegitimize racial justice."

As U.S. warships patrol the Caribbean and Maduro's grip on power frays amid economic collapse and mass exodus, the specter of foreign-fueled domestic chaos looms large. Whether this $20 million tale proves to be a smoking gun or a geopolitical smokescreen, it underscores a chilling truth: In the shadow of narco-states and street protests, the lines between liberation and subversion have never been blurrier. Investigations continue, with calls mounting for congressional probes into foreign influence on U.S. activist networks.

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