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Letter: USAID spending boosts America’s ‘soft power’

Six-year-old Mateo, the brother of Felipe Gomez Alonzo an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody, rests his head on his mother's lap in their home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. It was extreme poverty and lack of opportunity that drove Felipe’s father, Agustin Gomez, and mother Catarina Alonzo to decide that he and the boy would set off for the United States. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Six-year-old Mateo, the brother of Felipe Gomez Alonzo an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody, rests his head on his mother's lap in their home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. It was extreme poverty and lack of opportunity that drove Felipe’s father, Agustin Gomez, and mother Catarina Alonzo to decide that he and the boy would set off for the United States. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)