USAID

A person stands next to a blue boat on a sandy and grassy shoreline, looking out over a large body of water with distant islands and a flock of birds flying in the sky. The scene is under a clear blue sky with scattered clouds.

Cut to USAID funding affects rural regions of Colombia

Funding for the US Agency for International Development was one of the first things 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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