Funding for the US Agency for International Development was among the first to be cut by the Trump administration, with the president mocking some of the programs it supported. One of them was $60 million for “indigenous empowerment” in Colombia. Reporter Natalie Skowlund looks at what the loss of funding means for the rural villages of Colombia — and the drugs coming into the US.
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