USAID requests proposals for Cuba programs

[Judi Lynn]

USAID requests proposals for Cuba programs
Posted on Wednesday, 06.15.11

Money for another set of programs to promote democracy in Cuba is still hung up.

By JUAN O. TAMAYO
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The U.S. Agency for International Development is pushing ahead with Cuba programs worth $21 million, although another $20 million remains blocked after oddly mixed signals by aides to Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

Staffers on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, chaired by Kerry, lifted his “hold” on the money Friday but put it back on ice Monday, said several U.S. government officials.

“Something smells bad,” Investor’s Business Daily wrote in an editorial that quoted unidentified Capitol Hill sources as pointing a finger at a “rogue” committee staffer “with pro-Cuba sympathies.”

USAID’s public notices Monday requesting proposals on how to spend $21 million were merely a procedural step for future multi-year programs, said the U.S. officials, who asked for anonymity.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/15/2268740/usaid-requests-proposals-for-cuba.html

[naaman fletcher]

1. here's my proposal

Give it back to social security and medicaid.