{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"USAID Shocks Afghan Treasury with New Power Plant","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4295.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4295.html'\u003EUSAID Shocks Afghan Treasury with New Power Plant\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tarakhil power plant is part of a string of gold-plated USAID projects that have been built with little or no consultation with the Afghan government and without any consideration for life-cycle costs. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) operates as a separate organization within the U.S. State Department.  It is currently building, with a mix of American and Afghan government funds, a $285 million dollar electrical power plant outside Tarakhil village northeast of (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}