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Involvement in Peru's forced sterilizations
Main article:
Forced sterilization in Peru § USAID
During the 1990s, USAID was implicated in the forced sterilization of approximately 300,000 indigenous women in
Peru as part of the country's
Plan Verde. Population control guidelines promoted by international bodies, including USAID, the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the
Nippon Foundation, supported the Fujimori government's sterilization efforts.
[211][212] Investigations by Peru's congressional subcommittee found a causal correlation between increased USAID funding and the number of sterilizations performed.
[212] These sterilizations were part of a global strategy by the United States government to reduce birth rates in developing countries for political and economic stability.
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Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that USAID effectively took control of Peru's national health system from 1993 to 1998, during the period of forced sterilizations. It was concluded that it would be virtually inconceivable for these sterilization abuses to have occurred systematically without the knowledge of USAID administrators in Peru and Washington.
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Under pressure from investigations by the
Population Research Institute, USAID ceased funding for sterilizations in Peru in 1998. The forced sterilizations continued until President Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000.
[213] The policy resulted in a generational shift, creating a smaller younger generation unable to provide economic stimulation to rural areas, thus increasing poverty in those regions.
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