Santo Domingo.-Organizations that receive donations from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), could see their aid or, in cases, see them suspended definitively.
A conflict of interest between the government of Donald Trump and the entity, caused the closure of its operations in Washington and according to the magnate Elon Musk, will be dismantled immediately.
Hours later, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that he had been appointed as an interim director of the USAID.
Rubio, who made the announcement during a trip to El Salvador, denounced that Usaid refuses to align his projects with the interests of US foreign policy and said his workers are “insubordinate.”
The conflict
Although the motivations of the clash of ideas could be multiple, it is good age and federal funds for elective abortions were suspended.
In these aforementioned projects, the USAID has played a leading role in its promotion and support.
In RD
A program to alleviate HIV/AIDS, Basic Education and civil society, integrates the three lines that receive the greatest donations from the USAID in the country.
Although the USAID website, as well as its social networks, have been silenced, a document prepared in conjunction with the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development collects the contributions of the entity between its institutions and partners in the country during the fiscal year 2019. In that period of time, they were allocated 23.5 million dollars to 113 activities and 47 members, 29 % of those allocated to combat HIV/AIDS. Although without giving greater explanations, it is established that 28 % were destined for basic education and 21 % to government and civil society.
The remaining of the funds was distributed in water sanitation programs (9 %), multisectoral services (6 %), food security (6 %) and disaster prevention (2 %). The entity that has been questioned in other countries in the region for condition .
Being the Dominican Republic an eminently conservative country, some religious sectors saw as a provocation the creation in 2016 of a LGBT Chamber of Commerce, precisely, with the support of the USAID.
Global level
In 2020, the bulk of USAID donations around the world was allocated to health (38 %), humanitarian assistance (25 %) and economic development (13 %), being the total resources donated about 21.4 billion dollars .
The USAID will be the subject between Abinader and Rubio
Statement. President Luis Abinader reported that he will talk with the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, about the suspension of the aid of the International Development Agency (USAID). “There are some programs that affect the Dominican Republic and we are concerned about some that affect Haiti in terms of food,” he said.
He added that, in case of suspending a program that affects the country, the Government will take the necessary measures, since the amount received in the aid of that body is not something that the State cannot correct.
