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US drafts new assistance plan for Central America

Eric L. Olson

Eric Olson, Associate Director of the Latin American Program, is quoted in this article on a new assistance plan to Central America.

[...] The U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development have drafted a new major plan to “expand and reorient” assistance to Central America, according to Latin America policy analysts. “There's a major new request coming from the administration to Congress for assistance to Central America that will likely end up in the president's budget he submits next month,” Eric Olson, associate director of the Latin America program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, told Devex. "An assistance plan to Central America has been in the works for more than a year", he said. An initial plan for $300 million in aid to the region was proposed to Congress in November in a supplemental request totaling $3.7 billion, but was rejected by the then-newly elected Congress. [...] To read the full article, click here

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Eric L. Olson

Eric L. Olson

Global Fellow;
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle International Foundation
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more