That included Vásquez's organization, which was about to receive a four-year, $2.5 million grant to continue fighting illicit activity that affects Indigenous people in the region.

Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world Without American help, Indigenous people in the Amazon are worried. They are bracing for a resurgence of ...

But the Trump administration's recent sweeping cuts to the agency have thrown that tradition of U.S. assistance into doubt, and Indigenous people in the Amazon worry that without American support ...