Righ-wing think tanks kept it obscure, yeah right. This BS is targetted at the stereotypical "dumb gringo" that knows very little beyond his city/town. The article even uses the worst example from South America, the one that has the best quality of life.
"Question everything."
You are depressingly naive. I hope you are just a new fag.
After that massive virtue signaling by "artists" a Congress went to the program "Ask Washington" said it ammount to nothing in Ethiopia. More than ten years later an actual member of the Ethiopian government said there was never a food shortage, it had been an internal distribution problem.