The shutdown of USAID trumps the search for Latin America’s desaparecidos

I lost my job at USAID. America and the world are losing so much more (Guest Opinion by Brandy Witthoft)

U.S. foreign aid was a strategic investment in greater peace, better heath and improved food security, writes Marcellus resident. It was also the kind and generous thing to do.

The shutdown of USAID trumps the search for Latin America’s desaparecidos

By Juan Pablo Pérez | Edited by Patricia GuadalupeAfter a week listening to victims of unspeakable war crimes, Ángela Cordón makes herself a cup of coffee and sets a thick folio on the dinner table in her home in Neiva, Colombia. It’s just past noon, and the heat scatters through the rooms, clinging to the portraits, diplomas, and the wooden furniture that haven’t been moved for 20 years. From the stack of legal documents, slightly browned by ti…