Letters
U.S. AID Lisa Haugaard and the Latin American Working Group (LAWG), along with a host of other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), have been hoodwinked by U.S. AID into endorsing a...
...According to U.S...
...Food First researchers have shown these to be examples of highReaders are invited to address letters to The Editors, NACLA Report on the Americas, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 454, New York, NY 10115...
...Andy Stewart Nyack, New York Lisa Haugaard responds: The question of how much has changed within the Agency for International Development-and how much it even matters given the U.S...
...risk, pesticide treadmill-type farming that favors large farms over small...
...We can't demand participation, and then refuse to talk...
...Treasury's strict adherence to adjustment-is a valid debate...
...AID concedes that the complete reversal of downward trends in the economy since 1979 and the skewed concentration of wealth accumulated over the preceding century will take at least a decade...
...Lisa Haugaard, you've been in Washington too long...
...While the Latin America Working Group never did and never would endorse a document written by AID, we did discuss the Nicaragua strategy paper, and others, with them...
...The U.S...
...But to recognize that there has been some positive, incremental change in one department is hardly the sellout envisioned by Mr...
...Letters can be sent by e-mail to: editor@nacla.org...
...Ambassador, the Country Team and other Agency programs like the Peace Corps and the U.S...
...AID report recommends the growth of agroindustrial exports like beef and coffee and of nontraditional agroexports...
...A central point of my article is that there is space for Central American and U.S...
...Although AID functionaries concede that Sandinista agrarian reform gave Nicaragua the most equitable land distribution in Central America, they view the disintegration of the cooperatives as a good thing...
...Fortunately, the AID revolutionaries will have some help, and not just from their past critics but from the likes of the U.S...
...AID's "Nicaragua Strategy for 2000" (Managua, 1995), the LAWG and a host of other former critics contributed to, endorse and share the report's analysis and strategy...
...organizations to present informed critiques of AID programs and ideas for new directions-space that has not been fully used...
...That AID now routinely invites such participation with NGOs here and in Central America is one, still inadequate, step towards the participatory approach advocates have always stressed...
...AID's great shift toward sustainable development, away from being an enforcer of structural adjustment, and a toadie of U.S...
...AID grossly overstates the importance of such nontraditional exports to the Nicaraguan economy by reiterating the phenomenal growth rate in this sector, while never mentioning that they still account for a tiny portion of total exports...
...I believe that the incremental change seen in AID's Central America programs is due in great measure to such efforts...
...foreign policy...
...In the background study for the strategy statement, U.S...
...Occasionally, though not often enough, the grassroots efforts of people like Mr...
...Stewart...
...Lisa Come Home...
...AID into endorsing a counterrevolutionary agenda in Nicaragua ["Development Aid: Some Small Steps Forward," Sept/Oct 1997...
...Stewart do have an impact on administration officials...
...Information Service (USIS...
...Among the positions being endorsed by Haugaard and LAWG is that Nicaragua in the 1980s was a socialist dictatorship that is now making a historic transition to democracy...
...It would be cavalier of us to write off the $20 million or so per country per year-and much more to Guatemala-that still flows to some Central American countries simply because we deem AID unreformable and unworthy of our attention...
...To work honestly for social change, once in a while you need to recognize success...
...So much for U.S...
...It's time to get back to your roots in the solidarity movement...
Vol. 31 • January 1998 • No. 4
