US EditionCuts to USAID Severed Longstanding American Support for Indigenous People Around the World
- In early 2025, USAID canceled about 83% of its programs following an executive order, mainly affecting high-need foreign aid projects.
- These cuts resulted from an emphasis on preventing waste, fraud, and abuse, combined with fiscal cliffs in critical regions and mixed waivers for certain projects.
- USAID had begun shifting to localization by transferring responsibilities to local governments and funding fewer NGO-led projects, aiming to reduce dependency.
- The agency disbursed over $43 billion in 2023 for humanitarian, economic, and health efforts, but the sharp reductions contributed to estimated hundreds of thousands of deaths, including children like South Sudanese orphan Evan Anzoo.
- Observers warn these cuts will damage U.S. Global leadership and humanitarian impact, while ongoing debates question whether such reforms address aid effectiveness without causing harm.
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Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world
NEW YORK (AP) — Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug traffickers.
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Miguel Guimaraes Vásquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug traffickers. A leader in an Indigenous rights group, Vasquez said such efforts were long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, which spent billions of dollars starting in the 1980s to help farmers in Peru shif…
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