The organizations Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity and Article 19 receive funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Bill Gates, the National Endowment for Democracy, and USAID.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources support that Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) received funding from USAID, NED, and the MacArthur Foundation, and that Article 19 received USAID and MacArthur funding. No source mentions Bill Gates funding either organization, but none contradicts it, so the core assertion holds on the record, with the Gates element and Article 19's NED funding unverified.
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… the election of Trump was bad for her, but when you have the former i just wonder how close she was to the former president, who was a leftist, not like her. He wants to he wants the, uh, NGOs to be tightly limited, like the Putin has done in in Russia. There's two in particular: Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, and, uh, a group called Article 19. They're on MacArthur Foundation, Bill Gates, NED, USAID, and they made sure that only leftist females vetted by Davos would be selected as candidates. Um His position has always been, you know, very strange. He's not quite like he's not communist, as I said before. …
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Supports. USAID funding of MCCI is reported by AP (about $5 million in recent years) and Foreign Policy (a $2.3 million three-year grant from 2018).[1][2]
Supports. NED funding of MCCI is reported by the EUvsDISINFO summary of MCCI's own database and by Mexico News Daily, which says MCCI received funding from USAID and NED.[3][4]
Supports. MacArthur Foundation funding of MCCI is listed in a Devex profile of its contracts, which includes a MacArthur promotion-of-accountability award.[5]
Supports. USAID funding of Article 19 is confirmed by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, which says the organisation has long received USAID funding; MacArthur grants to Article 19 Mexico (2012–2019, $960,000 total) are listed on the MacArthur Foundation site.[6][7]
Context. No source mentions Bill Gates as a funder of either organization. The claim's Gates element is unaddressed, which does not contradict it.
Context. Article 19's NED funding is not addressed by any source. The MacArthur grant records end in 2019, and the sources are mostly from 2021–2024, so current funding as of 2026-10-01 is not directly confirmed.[6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 6 not rated
- 1Mexico's president will send a diplomatic note over US funding for a Mexican anti-corruption NGOapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Why Has AMLO Accused USAID of a “Coup Against Mexico”?foreignpolicy.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3DISINFO: The US is funding a colour revolution in Mexicoeuvsdisinfo.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Anti-graft group welcomes US stand on corruption, foreign NGO ...mexiconewsdaily.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Mexicanos Contra La Corrupcion Y La Impunidad (MCCI)devex.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Journalists under Pressure - International Reports - Konrad ...kas.de · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 7Article 19 Mexicomacfound.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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