Explain how the fact that Exxon Mobile gave 0.5 percent of ALF's funding to ALF since 1998 effects the author's veracity, when the author is a peon in the ALF, and what this has to do with the facts presented?

Authors veracity and facts

There is no doubting the veracity of an article about Venezuela from a conservative pressure group that gets funded by exxon mobile , Chevron ,Texaco and half a dozen other chemical and mining companies when the policies of the Venezuelan government impact on their financial interests