Letters to the Editor: Gutting USAID doesn’t serve Americans’ best interests

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Letters to the Editor: Gutting USAID doesn’t serve Americans’ best interests

Gutting USAID doesn’t serve Americans’ best interests I spent almost three years working in Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a U.S. not-for-profit humanitarian organization that provided help to refugees and internally displaced people. The program was largely funded by USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development), and provided life-saving help that understandably generated enormous goodwill toward the …

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The advance in replacing the historic United States Agency for International Development is a clear expression of the climate of the time. Why spend millions on soft power if you can be brutal, direct and save money? Since the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, in the first decade of the 20th century, the United States includes the idea of promoting democracy in the world in its foreign policy agenda. Latin America has been one of the most active are…

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USAID has a history of good projects that have saved thousands of people in developing countries, war zones, and disaster areas. It would be a shame to see them all dismantled. We hope that Trump and Musk will ruthlessly cut back on the organization, but not shut it down completely. That would be overkill. But since Barack Obama’s presidency, the organization has been hijacked by woke groups who have taken some of the funding to spread their tr…

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USAID: the Empire reinvents itself

Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first day back in the White House, ordered the suspension of almost all US foreign assistance for three months, especially that…