Alejandro Plaz
Alejandro Plaz is a founder of the Venezuelan volunteer civil association, Súmate. Plaz is a Venezuelan engineer and management consultant, who holds three Master’s degrees (two from Stanford University), and was a Senior partner for McKinsey & Company in Latin America, before taking a leave of absence to co-found Súmate with María Corina Machado.
Plaz faces charges of treason and conspiracy as Súmate has recieved a $31,000 grant from the National Endowment for Democracy group[1] . The trial has been postponed several times.
External links
- Official Súmate website
- Human Rights Watch statement on trial of Súmate founders
- Democracy Activists in Venezuela Threatened
- The State of Democracy in Venezuela, United States Senate hearings before the Committee on foreign relations.
- U.S. Department of State, The State of Democracy in Venezuela, Dec. 1, 2005.
- US Embassy statement on "conspiracy" charges against Súmate founders
- Plaz bio
- Súmate put on trial as U.S. puppet
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