Usaid News

La Paz - Bolivian President Morales is expelling the US Agency for International Development. He accuses the organization of attempting to impose its own will on the country and of fomenting protests against his government.

New York - Since its founding in 1961, USAID has continuously provided poverty relief, public health and education services targeted at the poorest. Under Herbert Hoover we helped prevent starvation in Belgium after the German invasion. Now look at the agency.

Change of scenery: after New York, some of the upcoming episodes of Sesame Street will be set in some back streets of a small village in Pakistan.

Curtained behind the bloated non-profit sector working in Haiti are the for-profit corporations who work for USAID. Not much is known about the for-profits because they are accountable only to the organizations that give them funding.