Nuevo Perú on the Politics of Trump regarding USAID
We hereby share the latest notes on the global crisis by Nuevo Peru:
CURRENT SITUATION. NOTES ON THE GLOBAL CRISIS (37. IS
TRUMP SEEKING TO “DISMANTALIZE USAID”?)
IS DONALD TRUMP SEEKING TO “DISMANTALE
USAID” OR ITS METAMORPHOSIS?
PRESENTATION:
The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) is the evolution of the supposed technical
assistance program that Truman outlined in point IV, when under the cover of
that economic assistance and collaboration an efficient mechanism of
penetration, intervention and control was organized.
All the American espionage institutions
work together and in agreement with the USAID. Its acts of intervention in
Latin America and the Third World are sufficiently registered since the
beginning of the 1960s.
With the experience accumulated in the
use of the judiciary in the political struggle between factions in the country
itself, the Agency extends its intervention programs to the judicial and
auxiliary system of Third World countries, that is, to the judiciary, public
ministry, judicial police, etc. to provoke political changes favorable to its
interests in our countries. This explains the prevalence of CIA agents attached
to the Yankee “Democrats”.
How does the Agency act in this new
field of occupation? First, as an advisory and support agency for “judicial
reform”, then as advisory institutes for governments on legislation, and later,
as programs to fight corruption and for transparency; to complete the picture,
Yankee imperialism, most notoriously since the 1990s, uses the big media
(promoting “investigative journalism”), the so-called “social media” and
“social organizations”, as they themselves say in modest language, to “monitor
the political institutions (of our countries) and generate information to bring
about social change and better functioning of their community.” Added to this
are the foundations of members of the financial oligarchy such as Soros. Some
of the institutions that make up this framework are mentioned when, as an
example, we cite cases such as Peru.
Therefore, we maintain that: “the plans
of the Donald Trump administration to dismantle USAID” do not have that
purpose, but rather a metamorphosis of this efficient mechanism of imperialist
intervention in our countries under the cover of “aid”, that is, for espionage,
penetration, and control, midst the development of its internal contradictions
that corrode it.
The decrees of the Donald Trump
government that establish the norms to implement the dismissals of personnel
from “development aid” institutions such as USAID and large-scale
administration, whose implementation has been entrusted to the Department of
Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Musk directs, are part of his government
plan for a greater absolute centralization of State Power in his hands, as
presidential absolutism, as a representative of the faction of the financial oligarchy
of Yankee imperialism, which represents the Republican Party.
To conclude this summary or presentation
of this new installment of our notes, we quote Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, an
American political scientist, advisor to the German government on US policy and
transatlantic relations, who shows her closeness to the Democratic Party, of
Trump’s “general construction plan” for his second term, she said: Project 2025
plans to “restructure the system” for the survival of the Republican Party,
strengthen the power of the executive branch and undermine the separation of
powers. (in “Caren Miosga”, Sunday, November 3, 2024, on German TV “Das Erste”)
IS DONALD TRUMP LOOKING TO “DISMANTLE
USAID” OR ITS METAMORPHOSIS?
We assume that the Agency is vital to
the interests of American imperialism, so we think that the plans of the new
government of Yankee imperialism are aimed at evolving this Agency in
accordance with its plans for all intelligence agencies and services within its
government plan known as “Project 2025” to which the Yankee political scientist
refers. Here, we address the issue of USAID, raising some general questions
that allow us to continue dealing with the nature of the measures of the new
government of Yankee imperialism. We irrefutably document the character of
USAID and its joint work with all the espionage and intervention services of
Yankee imperialism, as one of the tentacles of the imperialist octopus.
We start with the brief information that
gives an account of the matter at hand:
On February 7, 2025, it was reported
from Washington:
“The Donald Trump administration’s plans
to dismantle USAID are advancing rapidly, generating controversy among
international aid advocates and political sectors.
The start of the week for USAID
employees was complicated, since the central offices in Washington had closed,
so they had to work from home.
The next day, a notice on the website
notified them that they will be fire on Friday. Those employees with a contract
will see their employment relationship terminated, while those assigned abroad
will be repatriated within a month.
USAID, which until now had more than
10,000 employees worldwide, will suffer a drastic cut, leaving only 294
officials, according to reports from the American media. This staff cutback is
added to the cuts to its projects, after two weeks ago the White House ordered
the suspension of almost all foreign aid from the United States. Added to this
are the statements of the multimillionaire Elon Musk, head of the entity in
charge of reducing expenses and bureaucracy, who said that “the time has come
for USAID to die.”
The few officials who remain on the
payroll will be accompanied by an undetermined number of local employees in the
approximately 130 countries where the agency operated. USAID, the largest
cooperation agency in the world, annually disbursed nearly 44 billion dollars
in projects ranging from humanitarian aid to the fight against human
trafficking.”
We add that today’s newspapers are
dealing with Trump’s latest decree, on facilities for the dismissal of public
employees, the measure to dismiss USAID staff was blocked by a court, which
forces the president to appeal to Congress.
On the dismissal of officials from the
bureaucratic apparatus, agencies and intelligence services who come from the
“Democrats”. Some of them will surely be replaced by officials from the
“Republicans”. The Party structure and electoral base of the “Democrats” is
made up of bourgeois feminists, “minorities” and a “staff circle” made up of
so-called “knowledge workers”, white-collar employees, engineers, scientists,
experts and analysts, who work in technology companies, universities,
consulting firms and banks as computer screen workers. They make up the main
staff of the high State bureaucracy and spy agencies and are a large part of
the staff of the so-called “development aid”.
Under the discourse of
“de-bureaucratization” Trump and the representatives of the Republican Party
try to conceal the real content of the struggle, that is, for the control of
the highest bureaucratic instances and their main apparatuses such as the
judiciary, intelligence services, government agencies and control of the
so-called non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Displacement of those not
loyal to the president, that is, members or those related to the “Democrats”.
Key to this whole process is the control of judges, from the Supreme Court to
the State level, etc. This has been an arena of contention since the 1960s.
The Republican Party says that since the
1930s the “liberals” have controlled the federal government, the universities,
the press and the judicial bodies, so a “conservative revolution” must achieve
control of these institutions or find alternatives or, even more practically,
to achieve the former one must begin with the latter. The Republicans have
focused their interest in controlling the judicial courts at different levels
since the last four decades of the last century until the present. Because they
say that they win the elections, but the Democratic Party wins in the judicial
bodies. This has led to a bitter dispute over the change in the composition of
the judiciary. The above leads to the dispute for the control of higher
education, to impose the content and orientation of the thinking of the faculty
of law, which has been expressed as the struggle between “conservatives”
supporters of “Originalism” who support the interpretation of rights and
freedoms according to the thinking of the “founding fathers” of the “rights of
the individual”, that is, of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, on the one
hand, and the so-called “liberals” supporters of the legal interpretation
according to the “right of persons” or “equality of rights”, who since the
1990s, respond to the post-modern theories of “identity”, “gender”, “origin”,
etc., on the other. The originalists founded the Federalist Society in the law
schools of the universities of Chicago and Yale. The judges appointed by Rigan,
G. H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump belonged to that society and
were proposed by it. The members of the courts up to the Supreme Court
appointed by Clinton, Obama and Biden are well-known representatives of the
reactionary tendency called the “liberals”, at the service of the other
faction. This situation in the superstructure of imperialism is important to
take into account, to understand how some of the measures of the government of
the genocidal Trump are blocked by some judges. As we have said, each president
tries to appoint judges to the Supreme Court, according to his own orientation,
as part of the absolute centralization of Power in the president, since
Republican periods alternate with Democratic periods in the White House and as
a majority of legislative chambers.
We mention the above, so that it is
understood what is happening these days, where some State judges have
temporarily blocked the execution of presidential decrees. That is what is
happening in the case at hand with USAID, where a judge has blocked the
dismissal of thousands of members of this agency.
THE TRUE FACE OF USAID
We will now define the role of this
international “aid” agency of the United States Department of State (USAID):
All US espionage institutions work
together and in agreement with the United States Agency for International
Development. Its acts of intervention in Latin America have been sufficiently
recorded since the beginning of the 1960s. To document what we are saying, we
quote the following report:
Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, Passport
11333, Eight Years with the CIA, Havana, 1975, the author remained infiltrated
among the members of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who
operated in Uruguay from 1962 to 1971.
AUTHOR’S NOTE (January 1975)
(…)
I do not intend in these pages to
attempt a study of imperialism. I only briefly describe some of its methods.
That is why it may have seemed that by eliminating the CIA, the FBI, the USAID
and other instruments of penetration, we have solved the underlying problem.
These are merely the tentacles of the octopus. And it has a very wide range of
resources.
(…)
ENTRY TO THE LABYRINTH AND THE CIA
CAROUSEL
(…)
I had not been able to penetrate the
Yankee network, nor even identify my contacts. They used me without me being
able to neutralize them.
It was a very hard time and, finally,
thanks to the efforts of Micale, who despite having fallen into disgrace
maintained his friendship with Saenz, he entrusted me with some translations
for the USAID mission. (…) That is how I entered the labyrinth. It was
something.
From the USAID I began to have a broader
vision of American interference. This was not very difficult. I had worked in
governmental, political and economic circles, or rather, behind the scenes of such
circles, where the makeup and the glare of the limelight do not fool anyone.
My relationships included figures from
both traditional Parties. I knew the way Jorge Batlle and his group operated,
as well as the mechanism surrounding the coup attempts. I knew national
advisors, ministers, senators, mayors, police chiefs.
(…) In this sense, the various functions
I performed with the Americans helped me greatly. Their entire intelligence
apparatus is rigorously compartmentalized, but since I occupied different
compartments, I was able to have a broad vision of the set of Yankee activities
in Uruguay, their methods of penetration and the way they use conscious or
involuntary allies. My previous experience with the CIA in Cuba and the United
States did not fail to help me.
I will later discuss the penetration of
the police forces.
As far as the media and the people I had
met up to that point are concerned, the CIA operates in a different way. It is
interested in analysis and evaluations. When I began to do confidential
translations after two years, a good part of the material to be processed was
made up of reports of this type relating to newspaper companies, the trade
union movement, students, the Church, Parties, etc. A considerable number
concerned psychological analyses of public figures and their relatives. All
these evaluations were evidently made by Uruguayans or people who had been
living in the country for a long time.
(…) The Americans have a mechanism that
allows them to intervene directly in Uruguayan affairs. They also control all
the intelligence services and large sectors of the police. They complement this
with an information network, which records everything from State secrets to the
extramarital affairs of a minister, a director or the wife of a deputy. At the
same time, they have a system of checking and counter-checking to verify
information and monitor their own sources. It is like a carousel where the
horse behind watches the one in front and the one in front watches the next.
Above all, controlling the merry-go-round, are the facades of the CIA and the
Political Section of the embassy.
(…)
THE SPIDER WEB
It is worth pausing for a brief
description of the American embassy and its collateral organs (…) In 1966 the
ambassador was Henry Hoyt. He was replaced by the first secretary John L.
Topping.
There are three main sections of the
embassy: the Political, the Economic and the Administrative. Each is headed by
a secretary with diplomatic rank.
We will refer to the Political in detail
later.
The Economic Section was responsible for
everything related to Uruguay’s financial affairs; the Administrative Section,
for all internal movements and the provision of services, although later it
assimilated all the administrative services of other departments such as USAID
and USIS (United States Information Service).
In addition to these sections, there are
the offices of the attachés, which depend directly on the ambassador or Chargé
d’Affaires. These are: Press, Culture, Labor, Agricultural, Military, Air and
Economic.
The difference between an attaché and a
member of a mission is that the former has a well-defined diplomatic rank, and
the latter, although he enjoys immunity and diplomatic prerogatives, is
considered an advisor: an advisor belonging to the structures of the
organizations of the country in which he is accredited.
This is a subtle difference, more formal
than real, used in order not to hurt feelings. Theoretically, it is assumed
that it is not the same for the United States military attaché to be installed
– giving orders – in a base of the Uruguayan Armed Forces, than for a member of
the North American military mission to be installed – as it really happens. The
latter is not a diplomat, but an advisor. “Practically a Uruguayan military man,”
the Yankees claim modestly.
There are entities that, although
theoretically autonomous, revolve around the embassy. This is the case of the
Uruguay-United States Cultural Alliance (and its Artigas library – Washington).
Although registered in the country as a public corporation and with Uruguayan
legal personality, the Alliance is supervised by the cultural attaché, as well
as the agents that the CIA places directly.
The Economic Mission is the
representation of the Agency for International Development (USAID). It had its
offices (…) At that time its director was Frank Steward, a politician from the
State of New Mexico who had been rewarded with this position by Lyndon Johnson
for his electoral loyalty. It was structured in five divisions: Education, Agriculture,
Finance, Programming and Public Safety. (We must remember that USAID is the
evolution of the supposed technical assistance program that Truman outlined in
his point IV, when under the cover of this economic assistance and
collaboration an efficient penetration mechanism was organized).
Of the five divisions, the Public Safety
division is the most recent creation. For a long time, Washington had tried to
“place” missions among the police forces of Latin American, African and Asian
countries, but the objectives were too obvious. The military missions had
already provoked many protests and complaints.
When this division was established
within the USAID, it was hoped that the interference would go unnoticed, at
least at first. An additional advantage was that, generally, the agreement with
the USAID was approved by the parliament as a whole, without specifications on
the items covered by the technical assistance. Such was the case in Uruguay.
The USAID operated for a time with only four divisions. Eventually, Public
Security made its appearance.
The appearance of this new division did
not fail to cause certain internal friction. Most of the USAID technicians come
from university backgrounds. Among them, the omnipotence of the Yankee
intelligence bodies is more concealed. One in every few would be a direct agent
of the CIA, but the others consider themselves technicians or professionals,
although the majority is aware that the data they collect will ultimately end
up in the archives of the Agency or the National Security Council of the United
States.
On the contrary, the personnel of the
Public Safety Division are recruited, in the main, from the FBI and the various
municipal and State police forces. They are policemen, they do not hide it nor
could they do so. And the other officials somewhat underestimate them,
repeating once again the “fig leaf” scheme.
(…)
The Public Safety Division (which we all
knew as “the mission”) had two offices: the nominal one, together with the
other divisions, in the USAID building; and the real one on the first floor of
the Montevideo Police Headquarters (…) At the head of “the mission” was Adolph
B. Saenz (…) He had been in the Marines, later being a police officer in his
home State – New Mexico – and, later, in Los Angeles, California. There he was
recruited by the FBI. When the Public Safety Division was organized in the
USAID, he became part of its ranks.”
Another report on the Agency says:
Canadian journalist Jean Guy Allard sums
up the role of USAID: “Under its supposed humanitarian role, USAID participates
in the search for information, the propagation of false news, subversion, the
recruitment of agents, the creation of opposition groups and mercenaries, coups
d’état and a whole series of tasks aimed at developing, extending and
supporting the interference activities of the imperial power in Latin America.”
Allard indicated that USAID intervenes
in the internal affairs of our countries under the guise of humanitarian aid,
with the support of non-governmental organizations such as Reporters Without
Borders, Human Right Watch and the Inter-American Press Association.
“They are all part of a system of
espionage maintained by Washington, which operates through kidnappings,
murders, conspiracies of all kinds, assassinations, secret missions and attacks
in the Latin American region”
Note from Caracas: In Peru there is a
network of people supported by USAID, directly and indirectly, through projects
or intermediary organizations, among them: Manuela Ramos, Foro Salud, IDL,
Justicia Viva, Proyecto Participa Perú, etc.
Cecilia Blondet is a USAID consultant.
Incredibly, this lady is leading the election of the new Comptroller General of
the Republic (see: Candidates for Comptroller General: they pass through the
wrong filter). (http://www.abn.info.ve).
AN EXAMPLE OF THE AGENCY’S ACTIVITY IN
PERU
To confirm the information on the
intervention, penetration and control activities of Yankee imperialism in Peru,
we include a press release from USAID itself where its activity is reported:
“MSI Worldwide
Management Systems International
Combating Corruption in Peru
MSI is implementing the Millennium
Challenge Corporation (MCC) Anticorruption Threshold Program in Peru.
The MCC Anticorruption Threshold Program
is helping the Government of Peru (GOP) combat public corruption by improving
administrative systems and procedures, strengthening enforcement, and
increasing public awareness about corruption. The ambitious, multi-faceted
activities are being funded by MCC and administered by USAID.
In its first two years, over 1,800 media
and civil society representatives, as well as judges, government officials and
lawyers have taken part in trainings on the mechanisms available for citizens
to combat corruption. Dissemination campaigns were also implemented in
coordination with these workshops to promote the Judiciary’s anticorruption
initiatives among the general public and inform citizens about the positive
role they can play in fighting corruption.
The program is developed around a
framework based on the existence of three “drivers” of corruption:
Lack of awareness about the problem;
Weak enforcement due to inefficient
controls, investigation and sanction mechanisms; and
Opportunities that exist for corruption
due to inefficient government processes and limited access to information.
Using this framework, four public
offices selected by the government participate: the Judiciary, the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, the Office of the Comptroller General and the Ombudsman
Office. Complementary activities have been added with the National Council of
Magistrates and the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The program is helping Peru to combat
corruption by improving internal controls within the Judiciary as well as the
police force, while improving transparency of police procedures. It is also
helping to strengthen the capacity of offices in the Public Ministry to
investigate acts of corruption and supporting efforts by the National Council
of Magistrates to strengthen the disciplinary and selection processes for
judges.
(…)
The project aims to promote the message
that MCC and USAID are contributing to the government’s efforts to combat
corruption by strengthening institutional capabilities for transparency and
accountability.
Go to our Practice Areas section to
access more projects by category Intranet Copyright 2018 MSI-INC”
The other tentacle of the imperialist
octopus: IDL-Reporters
The other tentacle of the imperialist
octopus for its intervention activities in Peru, as already stated, is IDL,
under the guise of investigative journalism. Let us read how it is positioned
without naming the agency, in its activity:
“In this context of rampant corruption
and growing distrust of the population in its institutions, IDL-Reporters was
born on February 14, 2010, under the auspices of the Institute of Legal
Defense. With the same inspiration as its European or American peers: To
monitor the political institutions of Peru and generate information to bring
about social change and better functioning of its community (Gorriti,
IDL-Reporters: A year hunting for the hidden, 2010).”
Another, from the same CIA agent:
The main obstacle that IDL-Reporters
faces is its total dependence on a single source of funding (Alves, 2011), the
OSMP. To remedy this, Gustavo Gorriti conceived a very original idea.
He has called it Fair Advertising, a
project similar to fair trade. In his obsession with finding sustainable
alternatives, Gorriti is trying to create a global list of companies interested
in supporting investigative journalism. A referenced list, certified by
prestigious institutions, to which the different investigative journalism in
Latin America can turn to request financial support. Gorriti launched this idea
at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, organized by the
University of Texas, with the sponsorship of AT&T and the Knight Center for
Journalism in the Americas, on April 2, 2011.
Open Society. (2010 October 25).
Investigative Journalists Take on Peruvian Corruption. Consulted 2011 July 21
Open Society Fundations: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/lap/news/idl-reporteros-20101025
Requejo, J. L. (2010 August). How is
investigative journalism financed in the United States? Consulted 2010 October
15 Sala de Prensa.org: http://saladeprensa.org/art1030
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