Letter: Dismantling USAID programs will come back to haunt nation

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Letter: Dismantling USAID programs will come back to haunt nation

I’m fortunate to have visited about 50 countries over the years, as tour leader, on mission and educational trips and visiting our daughters who were working in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Time and again I had the heartfelt experience of seeing U.S. Agency for International Development signs with the tagline, “From the People of the United States.” These labeled medical clinics, farm equipment, food distribution centers, schools, wells a…

Pascal Boniface · USAID's Dismantlement: Impacts on the Global Humanitarian System. With Olivier Routeau & Geopo InterviewsAs states tend to reduce their budgets for global humanitarian aid, Donald Trump's inauguration is taking place. Only a few months after he took office, the US President and his administration dismantled USAID (United States Agency for International Development), whose funding accounted for more than 40% of global humanitari…

By: Pablo Carranza – What is your opinion about Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle USAID? Well, if he knew what was going on as an American, it seems to me that it is a good measure because that entity was totally topped by sectors of what is called the “woke” ideology, which comes to be what we here in Peru call the “caviars.”

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