Aid and Strings

In her Senate testimony, Condoleezza Rice argued that the U.S. is not cutting aid to Latin America, but is simply shifting it around and attaching more strings.

The programs have very impressive names, like Millenium Challenge Account and Economic Support Fund. You can only get the latter if you make U.S. citizens exempt from the International Criminal Court (known as an Article 98 agreement). This, of course, has been a recent issue for Bolivia. The ICC dispute in particular has been a major source of contention, and the main result has been to further damage already tattered relationships.