As an international aid worker for more than 20 years, I have often been struck by the incongruity between US foreign assistance and US foreign policy. Sure, one expects that in a bureaucracy as vast as the US government, there are bound to be examples of different agencies competing for resources, missed opportunities for collaboration, and miscommunication, but what if I told you I found that US policy often actively undermines and works at cross-purposes with its own stated development objectives?
In the fall of 2018, I was hired by a US nonprofit organization to travel to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to…
Steven Perez
Recovering international development professional
