Liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society quietly helped fund a recent trip by House Democrats to meet with left-wing Latin American leaders in several foreign countries, documents show.
Reps. Maxwell Frost , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Greg Casar , Nydia Velazquez , and Joaquin Castro traveled between Aug. 13 and 21 to Brazil, Colombia, and Chile to hobnob with Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's advisers"to forge a new diplomatic relationship between the United States and Latin America.
Ocasio-Cortez was joined on the trip by her boyfriend Riley Roberts, and listed him as a"spouse," her disclosure shows. A sponsor post-travel form shows Ocasio-Cortez's $4,955 in transportation expenses were paid for, as well as $1,545 in lodging and $813 in meal expenses. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, a Wall Street Journal columnist, notably in August dubbed the trip Ocasio-Cortez's"socialist sympathy tour," and took aim at the congresswoman's comments that the U.S. has"much to learn from our counterparts in these countries, including how to confront disinformation and violent threats to our democracies."
The House Democrats in Chile discussed various issues with Boric, including Chile’s lithium industry, according to filings, which described how the Colombia trip involved meetings with Petro on"the U.S.-Colombia security relationship" and"the role Colombia can play on hemispheric foreign policy issues," among other topics.
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