I have been a consistent critic of big money "aid" programs to countries like my own for decades. USAID programs. Bolivia, for example, were often directed at subverting our elected socialist government and constitutional process in Bolivia. The US Ambassador and USAID, DEA, NED were thrown out of the country with valid documentation, which I have seen, of the aid money being spent on subverting the constitutional process and dividing Bolivia into a hydrocarbon rich right-wing big land-owner bastion in the lowlands nation against the indigenous socialist nation of the Andes.

I have also seen Save the Children's mismanagement of funds in my province many years ago (they may have improved, I don't know). This included the introduction of potato seeds from Holland in a country with hundreds of indigenous potato varieties, and use of funds for a marble floored office, new Toyota's top end computers and big salaries for foreigners. In the meantime having the Peace Corp "strong arm" (quote from a Peace Corps volunteer at the time) children to write letters, and not even supplying basic school supplies to the same children.

Its a sort of elitist racism in that big charities don't consider local people capable of running their own development projects. Locals are either too "uneducated" or "corrupt". Only white NGO people are considered intelligent, clean and ethical to manage funds and projects. In response to this racism inherent to big aid projects, I have always proposed that aid be given directly to programs initiated by local grassroots organizations. And that bio-reserves be managed by the people most affected with the help of strong environmental protection laws.

That brings me to today's news story: Hillary Clinton caught bragging about failed global health initiative.

"Providing poor women with clean cookstoves," Clinton said at the annual gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, “could be as trans-formative as bed nets or even vaccines,” which have saved tens of millions of lives. It hasn’t worked out that way, despite the best efforts of the alliance, which operates as a project of the U.N. Foundation in Washington."

"These cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives. What happened?" --- Millions dying from ailments caused by 'clean cookstoves' --

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/these-cheap-clean-stoves-were-su...

http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2016/05/29/hillary-clinton-caught-bragging...

Do you wonder where the money goes??? Here is another money pit for the rich and producers of such crap: "The alliance agrees that more research is needed. It has commissioned more than 40 studies."

The lack of positive results and predominately negative results of spending billions of dollars donated to the Clinton controlled Haitian relief effort, as I have documented earlier, is sickening, a cover-up for economic colonialism of the worst kind. This is very real stuff to the people of our countries, we are the ones that wonder why rotten floors in schools collapse during recess, why children are seated three to a desk, why cholera is brought to our countries by UN "Peacekeepers" and inadequately controlled, why our mama and papi dies because there is inadequate medical care, and why children and adolescents are bought and sold or forced to work in sweat shops.

Neocolonialism and big money aid is a destructive illusion... ripping off the small donors with big hearts, ripping off the hard-working, intelligent people who need the aid, while destroying local economies and making payouts to state corporatists.