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　　Chavez accused the United States of providing aid to opposition groups under the guise of supporting human rights and democracy development.

　　These are the same charges Maduro is making today.

　　State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki defends U.S. support for basic human rights.

　　We have serious concerns about some issues in Venezuela, including democracy and human rights, and we will continue to express those concerns, she said.

　　Human rights, democracy and free press groups often have adversarial relationships with those in power.

　　Basically human rights organizations, whether it is Venezuela or any other country in the world, they work to avoid, denounce, confront human rights violations committed by state agents, said Santiago Canton, director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

　　Shifter says the Obama administration has drawn a policy line between supporting democracy and human rights and taking sides in a political conflict.

　　It is much more careful, much more deliberate, much more low-key and clearly is careful not to cross the line into political organizing, he said.

　　Some in Congress want to increase funding to democracy groups in Venezuela, but Shifter says the perception of U.S. invovlement would take the focus away from the deteriorating economic and security conditions in the country and give Venezuelas leaders a foreign enemy to blame.