USAID suspension shutters Colombia programs, endangering FARC peace deal


People prepare their boats to navigate the Atrato River, in Quibdo, Colombia March 15, 2025. REUTERS/Paula Andrea Orozco

QUIBDO, Colombia (Reuters) - The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC rebels,according to officials, people working with the agency and beneficiaries.

The Trump administration's freeze of nearly all funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has thrown humanitarian initiatives around the world into turmoil.

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