USAID is leaving Ecuador today

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Global Post

USAID is leaving Ecuador today

President Rafael Correa is the latest Latin American leader who's grown irritated with America's aid agency.

John Otis September 30, 2014 10:40

BOGOTA, Colombia — Under pressure from Ecuador’s left-wing government, the United States Agency for International Development is today shutting down its operations in the South American nation after 53 years.

In a telephone interview with GlobalPost, Adam Namm, the US ambassador to Ecuador, called the decision “very disappointing.”

But it was no surprise. The government in Quito had refused to allow Washington's aid agency to renew its programs or start any new activity in the country.

President Rafael Correa is a fierce US critic who has already pulled the plug on US counter-narcotics operations at a Pacific coast base and expelled Namm’s predecessor as well as 14 US military advisers, whom he claimed were infiltrating Ecuador’s security forces.



Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140930/usaid-leaving-ecuador-correa-ngos

[FairWinds]

1. The Ecuadoran government is justified in its suspicion . .

of the US government, which has subverted and destroyed
democracies in Latin America for at least a century.
Examples include Chile - 1971; Guatemala - 1954;
Dominican Republic - 1964; Honduras - 2009;
Brazil - 1964; Venezuela - 2002; and many others.
The article above from Global Post would have at
lease mentioned some of this history were it not
a propaganda rag.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I noticed! They discussed the subject briefly, then packed the rest full of anti-Correa crap!

They're so damned conspicuous, but the whole corporate media spin so hard to the right most people have never realized what the #### they're reading, apparently.

I posted the info. at the first just to get it seen, since this is the first article I've seen on this latest move.

Thanks.

[Ken Burch]

2. Why would USAID ever stay in a Latin American country that didn't know it's colonized "place"?

Even our current "Democratic" president still buys into the discredited notion that our corporations are entitled to treat the people of the hemisphere as their "subjects".

[Judi Lynn]

4. Yes, he does. What a hideous heartbreak. Who could have guessed it would turn out this way?

The white European-descended wealthy people who control these countries don't identify with the natural citizens, and it bothers them not in the slightest to betray the citizens by selling out to the U.S.

It appeals to their bogus sense of "superiority" to keep ALL the wealth in the very smallest percentage of the ruling class, and letting the native citizens and meztizos struggle bitterly from birth to death amid completely unnecessary hardship and suffering.

In time they are going to lose. "The meek WILL inherit the earth." It's even prophesied in the Christian "Good Book". A lot of bogus Christians will fight that possibility with their very last breath.

(Makes you wonder if corporate people DO believe it will happen, and are trying to destroy the earth BEFORE the "meek" can win!)

[blkmusclmachine]

5. US aid funnels money to destroy democracies.

Kick them out!

[geek tragedy]

6. Adios!

Can't fault Ecuador for this.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. This is sad.

I can fully understand and support Ecuador's decision.

But what I regret is what happened to USAID. It used to be a rather benign organization. Before Cheney Bush took it apart and shoved it into another Department.

Many years ago, it sent me to teach in a former soviet state, at their law school, bringing in western ideas to the baltics. I never regretted what I did, and I thought it was a wonderful idea. With no surprise to me, the Baltics have become staunch western Euro supporters. They really do not want another SSR attached to their country's name.

[ozone_man]

9. Sadly, the USAID was not a benign organization way before Bush.

I'd say it was a CIA front, going back to it's creation. Good for Ecuador.

[swilton]

10. +

[cosmicone]

8. USAID is a CIA front anyway -- or at least it is used by the CIA. n/t