I know that, but you can't divorce that from the fact that people (specially people in a government that is feeling under attack) will see any funding from a US

I know that, but you can't divorce that from the fact that people (specially people in a government that is feeling under attack) will see any funding from a US-based entity as proof that the US is behind attempts to destabilize it. And to be fair: can you blame them? Every effort by tech companies to support "free speech" during the Arab Spring did end up in massive unrest. Why would the government of Argentina want something like that? Again, it's a question of 'optics', and the optics are already pretty tainted down there.