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In December 2015 Black Lives Matter sent a delegation, headed by the organization’s co-founder, Opal Tometi, to act as observers during the Venezuelan Parliamentary elections of that year. The Maduro regime did not allow accreditation for observers from the Organization of American States, the UN, or the EU. The only accredited observers where from regimes and organizations friendly to the “revolutionary cause.”

According to multiple reports, the Venezuelan government under Hugo Chávez allegedly provided over $20 million to Opal Tometi, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), in late 2012.

This funding was reportedly delivered in suitcases of cash during a meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, which a former high-ranking Venezuelan official claimed to have witnessed.

The purpose of the funding, as stated by the defector, was to "project the Bolivarian revolutionary project onto the streets of the United States" and sow political division to undermine American democracy.

The reports also note that Tometi was accompanied by actor Danny Glover and three other African American women during the alleged meeting.

Additionally, BLM co-founders had prior connections to Venezuela through events like the United States Social Forum, which was inspired by calls from Chávez for a leftist "fifth column" in the U.S. ...

These claims are based on testimony from a defected Venezuelan official and have been reported by outlets such as the Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal.

However, no independent verification or official U.S. government confirmation of these allegations has been presented in the provided sources.