There is quite a frenzy in some Dominican medium ever since a list of some of the Dominican journalists and heavy weights in the public opinion resulted to be getting paid from USAID money. Casals even said of a time he was offered a lot of money in cash in US dollars to stop talking about the illegal immigration from Haiti. It wasn’t they promised to pay him, they went to him with the money in envelopes put right on his laps so to speak. He says they were crisps bills with no signs of usage,
What bothers many folks is that many of these journalists had a very pro-Haitian stance. Now there is the assumption that their very pro-Haitian stance was due to conditions for keeping getting paid in thousands of US dollars per month.
They also noticing some of the things done by USAID with a humanitarian image but was, in the case of China, to infiltrate with American informants and spies. Supposedly, in the Ukraine I out 10 newspapers were supported by USAID money and with the current shutdown (temporary) they cease to operate. lol
They are linking that to how quickly certain NGO’s would create pro-Haitian protests in the DR since many of them didn’t had much difficulty securing funds from the USA.
Would be interesting to see if these NGO’s and the pro-Haitian stance of many Dominican journalists will continue now that the money they were receiving for that is no longer there.
The Trump administration probably is analyzing what amounts were going to actual humanitarian aid and what was going to push certain ideologies, many woke, around the world. The latter are leftist stuff, so most likely they will remain cut with the right wing government now in power in the country the USAID is based.