Short for United States Agency for International Development according to abbreviationfinder, USAID boasts of being the instrument that over the years has helped the countries of the world to develop economically and solve humanitarian problems. It is one of the instruments of the White House that the intelligence services use to obtain information on countries in the region and influence their internal and foreign policy, being since 1961, the main agency of direct interventionism of the United States in the nations, and since then it has distributed millions of dollars in military and economic “aid” to the countries where it exercises its dominance in protection of US interests.
It is an instrument of imperial foreign policy, which emerged as a result of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Based on the developmentalist ideology of W. Rostow (Stages of Economic Growth), and has tried to prevent a repetition of the Cuban revolution in Latin America (“the advance of totalitarianism”), and in fact, in the Third World in general.
Honduras
Roland Valenzuela, former minister of President Zelaya, denounced in June 2010 that the US ambassador Hugo Llorens (of Cuban origin) had coordinated the Coup d’état in Tegucigalpa. Valenzuela assured that days before the barracks, Llorens and Micheletti (then president of Congress) received the decree of Zelaya’s dismissal. Days later, leaving a restaurant in San Pedro Sula, he was murdered by a common criminal.
Valenzuela offered another piece of information, the draft of the decree would have been drafted by Jacqueline Jackie Foglia Sandoval, a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and an official of the Honduran armed forces. Jackie is also director of external relations at Zamorano University, a renowned center for agricultural studies in Latin America that receives funding and guidance from USAID.
After the crime, the president of the College of Secondary Education Teachers, Jaime Rodríguez, denounced that USAID and several non-governmental organizations in Europe supported the persecution of Honduran teachers, whose union has been one of the most combative in the resistance to the coup. of State. Several of its members were killed.
As Canadian journalist Jean Guy Allard denounced, USAID officials directly supported another of the most aggressive groups against Zelaya, which CNN later chose to justify the coup: the Peace and Democracy Movement, led by Martha Díaz Velásquez, beneficiary of 47 million dollars distributed among various groups in Honduras.
Likewise, the teachers’ union denounced that movements such as Transformemos Honduras (MTH) receive funds from USAID, the UN, the World Bank, the IDB and European organizations from Spain, Germany, France and Sweden, with the supposed purpose of fighting corruption.. The MTH Governance and Transparency program is the same one that works in Nicaragua under the name of Cam Transparency, managed by Casals & Associates Inc, a subsidiary of the mercenary firm DynCorp, a Pentagon contractor.
The day the Honduran Valenzuela was assassinated, President Barak Obama appointed Mark Feierstein as director general of USAID. Feierstein is an expert on disinformation issues and anti-leftist political strategies. Linked to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a US firm that advised Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada for the 2002 elections and was present in the elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua with its assistance to the political forces and right-wing candidates who opposed the revolutions Bolivarian and Sandinista. In the 1980s, he operated with the NED to destabilize the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega.
Bolivia
In Bolivia, it has been in charge of organizing the Democracy component through FIDEM (Strengthening of Democratic Institutions) directed by a former senior official of the Jorge Quiroga government.
The USAID program focused on the balkanization of the country and the financing of violent actions against the authority of the president.
In 2007, an agreement was signed between the prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández, and USAID to carry out “social programs” in Bolpedra, Cobija and El Porvenir. Logistical support was provided by the Southern Command and the institutional coverage of the Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative (ABCI).
The US agency, via the Wildlife Conservation Society, was actively involved in the violent dispute between the residents of Caranavi and Palos Blancos over the installation site of a fruit processing plant in January 2010, just a few days after Evo Morales assumed his first term in the Plurinational State.
Several farmers’ federations and the five municipalities of the Cochabamba region expelled the agents of this organization by denouncing their involvement in the preparation of a coup.
