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Jon Lee Anderson

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  • Laborers in El Salvador receive food allotments as part of a program sponsored by U.S.A.I.D., in 1983.

    Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.

    As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.
    by Jon Lee Anderson via The New Yorker on February 25, 2025

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