On the recordApril 12, 2011
Latin America has dropped from 14 percent of the foreign assistance budget to just 10 percent, at a time when all these issues I talked about at the beginning are rising.
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Durbin highlights the decrease in foreign aid to Latin America despite rising regional issues.
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