It is official: Trump asks to close Usaid, the world’s largest cooperation agency

British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Friday “worries“That benefits China or other countries.

The almost total freezing of American foreign aid and then the gradual dismantling of the agency this week have caused shock waves in the humanitarian world, far beyond Washington.

“Radical crazy”

Its budget of more than US $ 40,000 million represents 42% of the humanitarian aid disbursed worldwide.

In 2023, the agency distributed funds for more than US $ 1.7 billion in Latin America, distributed mainly to humanitarian aid, health, economic development and human rights, according to US government data of foreign aid.

The main beneficiaries in the region were Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela and Guatemala.

Honduras, the room on the list, will stop receiving US $ 180 million annually, said Foreign Minister Enrique Reina.

But for Musk Usaid it is a “Radical Left Marxist Vipers Nest that hate the United States. ”

Trump believes that he is directed by “Radical crazy”Left.

Since Trump’s investiture on January 20, the Government has taken a series of radical decisions to reduce administration and cut public spending, but some have been challenged before the courts have been suspended.

A union that represents USAID employees, the AFSA, announced Thursday night that the agency’s cut will resort to estimate that these types of decisions do not correspond to the Executive, but to the Legislative Power, that is to say to Congress.

Removal of sign

The sign and the logos of the offices of the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) in Washington were retired this Friday after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered his dismantling.

The USAID headquarters, in the Ronald Reagan building, a few streets from the White House, remains closed from Monday, February 3 when the agency workers received an email that urged them to stay at home.

This Friday the letters of the agency that was on the facade and its logo were removed at the entrance door was covered with a black bag.

After those changes, there is no trace of the agency’s headquarters.

A neighbor of the city who passed through the door started angry one of the adhesive tapes that covered the name of USAID in a sign, and before, someone had left some flowers at the entrance.

When all the identification had already retired, an old employee of the agency, who did not want to give statements to the press, left the offices with a box with their personal belongings such as ceramic figures and a stuffed animal.

The USAID is the largest cooperation agency in the world, which was founded in 1963 and has about 10,000 employees and a budget of US $ 50,000 million in 2023.

The tycoon Elon Musk, in charge of cutting public spending in the new Trump administration, ordered the USAID to dismantle, which endangers programs that save lives to millions of people worldwide, according to civil society organizations.

The Trump government argues that the USAID is inefficient, which remains unnecessary equality and sustainability programs in the world and that its workers are ”They insubordinate“Given the order to suspend humanitarian aid.

The New York Times points out that almost all of its 10,000 jobs will be eliminated and only a small group of 290 workers will remain.

With information from AFP and EFE