Tag: US Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Friday, November 27th 2015 - 07:43 UTC

  US gaining influence in Caricom: signs US$ 165m in development assistance

  

  The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) signed in Guyana, this week, agreements that will see countries of the eastern and southern Caribbean benefiting from US$165 million in development assistance.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2013 - 08:55 UTC

  Kerry declares the Monroe Doctrine dead: “we are equals sharing responsibilities”

  

  US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday declared that a nearly 200-year-old policy which had governed Washington's relations with Latin America was finally dead. Known as the Monroe Doctrine after it was adopted in 1823 by former US president James Monroe, the policy had stated that any efforts by European countries to colonize land in North or South America would be views as aggressive acts and could require US intervention.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:01 UTC

  Morales expels USAID to protest Kerry’ reference of Latam as the ‘US backyard’

  

  President Evo Morales expelled a US development agency from Bolivia, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of populist governments in Latin America.