Spanish
Following President Donald Trump's decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid), due to what he defines as "tremendous corruption," in all the countries where that entity has had an impact, a scandal of great dimensions has been unleashed due to the issues that have been uncovered.
In the Dominican Republic, for example, some with axes to grind against "disaffected" journalists have gone down the path of gossip, attacking the good name of veteran communicators, who have come out to defend their honor and advance their willingness to take legal action against the defamers.
However, the most serious and despicable issue of the behavior of the U.S. Government through that agency has been a shadowy laboriousness in many aspects, one of which has ended up undermining the reputation of an impressive number of media outlets in all these countries.
And the fact is that, when it emerges that Usaid has dedicated itself for decades to financing media and journalists to supposedly promote an "independent" press, in reality the intention was to put them against governments not aligned with Washington's policies, and that, through the undermining of the image of these regimes, it has been possible to foster the disaffection of the people and even provoke their destabilization.
In this way, the credibility of these media and opinion makers has been seriously harmed upon learning that their attitude was due to an obligation derived from the economic commitment.
That is to say, that those media and journalists are actually independent of the governments, but very dependent on the agency, because of the saying "who pays the piper calls the tune".
This issue is just a minimal portion of the agenda developed in many countries, as perhaps the most alarming has been the financing of groups disguised as civil society for whom the State should disappear and release public policies, even if it takes millions of people to hell.
Thanks to President Trump's attitude—which is, after all, retaliation—we have been able to verify the sinister role that the agency has played in many cases, which has also sheltered conspirators and destabilizers under the guise of a supposedly civilian quality. Good for Trump!
